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Turning off the cmd window beep sound

Is there a way to essentially mute the Beeping function of the Windows command shell?

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Total answers/comments: 4
Guest [Entry]

"Perform the following steps to disable your machine's system beep:

Right-click My Computer and select Manage.
Expand System Tools and select Device Manager.
From the View menu, select Show hidden devices.
Expand Non-Plug and Play Drivers.
Right-click Beep, and select Properties.
Select the Drivers tab.
Click Stop. You can also change the start-up type to Disabled so the beep service never starts.

Ref:
http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/15508/how-do-i-stop-windows-2000-from-beeping.html"
Guest [Entry]

"Since the other solutions didn't work for me (for example, net stop beep got stuck like this forever: The service is starting or stopping. Please try again later.), the way I disabled the beep/ding in Cmder/ConEmu was by setting the sound for Critical Stop to none in system Sound settings.

No more dings!"
Guest [Entry]

"In my opinion you can achieve this without disabling your pc's system beep on new systems.

Right click the Speaker icon on the system tray
Click Open Volume Mixer
Mute Console Window Host (or the app you want to mute)

I've done this for WSL for Windows 10 and it worked well."
Guest [Entry]

"Windows 10 answer:

Navigate: Sound settings -> Related Settings (Sound Control Panel) -> Sounds

Then click on the sound (critical beep/default beep)

In ""Sounds"" dropdown scroll up to select ""(None)"" option.

Apply"