Disable the annoying BEEPs in your Virtual (or Physical) machines!
Ever get sick of the beeping of your VMs?
Working quietly, logging on to a vm…
BEEEEEP! YOUR PASSWORD HAS EXPIRED SO I FELT LIKE WAKING UP EVERYONE IN THE OFFICE!
Well, if your test lab is in a domain, there is a good permanent fix for you.
Now, the next section is useful to know if you want to know where service configuration in a GPO is stored. If it’s not interesting for you, just go to the “Shortcut” section at the end.
Create a new group policy. Call it DISABLE_THE_BEEPS.
Edit it.
Under Computer configuration, in Windows settings\security settings, open System services.
The service we want to control is called Beep. What…it’s not in there?
God does not want me to live free from these annoying beeps? Will I have to open up my laptop case and rip the PC Speaker apart?
No no no..a simple GPO trick will do it!
Edit Any service in the GPO (If your GPO is linked to an OU with computers, try not to pick a critical service, just in case). I usually take the Print Spooler.
Go in its propertiers, and set the startup mode to Disabled. Click OK.
In GPMC, go to the details page of the DISABLE_THE_BEEPS GPO. Note the Unique ID of the GPO.
Browse to \\yourdomain\SYSVOL\yourdomain\Policies\{unique id}\Machine\Microsoft\Windows NT\SecEdit .
Right click the GptTmpl.inf file and open it with notepad.
The last line should be “Spooler”,4,”"
Replace Spooler by Beep. Save the inf.
You can now review the GPO settings..
Now just make sure the GPO is getting applied to your VMs, and GONE ARE THE BEEPS!
Shortcut:
Create a GPO, browse to it in Sysvol, open the security settings inf, add this at the end of the file:
“Beep”,4,”"
Apply it on servers.
Video
Disabling the Beeps through GPO..
