How to stop a Windows computer beeping?

I always found quite annoying the Windows beep that wakes up the entire office when on a difficult Monday morning I struggle to enter my password. Mighty embarrassing!

Why can't Windows just say: "Sorry dear, you had too many beers yesterday, you mistyped your password again, let me help you ..." In 100 years maybe!

The solution to that embarrassing affliction is relatively easy even for a non computer savvy (but follow the steps carefully).

The beeper is a prehistoric feature of Windows which appears under the device manager. To remove it follow these steps:

* go on my computer and select "view system information",
* in the hardware tab select "device manager",
* then in device manager go in view and select "show hidden devices",
* go under "non plug and play drivers",
* finally you can see an entry called "Beep" device.

That is it. You can now select the beast, disable and also de-install it if you wish. Nasty think it is!

This post was written and tested on Windows XP Home.

Need more help? See my video demonstrating the steps: How to stop a Windows computer beeping (Video)?