Subj : Apoint: keep silent - how? SOLUTION: hack
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Fri Apr 26 2019 19:58:00

Hello Martin!

** 26.04.19 - 13:26, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

AA>>         net stop beep

AA>> YEP.  That works!  I had a few unread messages addressed to me in another
AA>> echo, and I didn't hear a peep!

AA>> Added BONUS:  no more beep at the EOF in the OXP editor!

MF> Excellent and I'm really pleased for you that you've found a solution and
MF> shared it with us. I'm sure the beeps must have been driving you mad.


Even with Window's Sound Scheme=No Sounds, I get a nice "gentle"  
windchime-like sound when my 3G mobile connects.  I get a simple one-tone  
beep when the pc settles down into Hibernate or back again.  But, Apoint's  
and OXP sounds would be very loud with an annoying tone.  And.. if I  
happend to be playing some music through the audio-out to my amplified  
speakers, the Apoint/OXP sounds trumped everything and would make me jump!  
 LOL

"net stop beep" disables the sounds produced by the programs, but my audio  
out for music is unaffected.

The command is active per Windows session.  I use Hibernate most of the  
time so it is not a problem.  But at next full reboot "net stop beep"  
would need to be reapplied.

For a permanent setting, use:

sc config beep start= disabled

These should also work in Win7/8/10, IIRC.


  ../|ug

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