Sunday, June 15, 2008

Disabling the internal speaker

Disable Speaker

If you're running Microsoft Windows you can disable the Internal speaker or PC speaker by following the below steps.

  1. Open Device Manager
  2. In Device Manager click View and click "Show hidden devices"
  3. This should make "Non-Plug and Play Drivers" visible in Device Manager.
  4. Expand Non-Plug and Play Drivers by clicking the plus and double-click Beep.
  5. Within the "Beep properties" window click the Driver tab.
  6. Under the driver tab if you wish to temporarily disable this device click the Stop button. If you wish to permanently disable this device under the Startup Type select Disabled.
Enable Speaker
if you wish to temporarily enable this device click the Start button. If you wish to permanently enable this device under the Startup Type select System.