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geoffc
Asked: 2009-07-11 09:33:57 +0800 CST

How do I disable sound, in MSTSC?

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I get a beep that sounds like a BIOS level, at VERY loud volume, when in an MSTSC session to a server.

Which when I am listening to some audio, is almost deafining in volume. I often jump and curse at the volume of it!

Is there anyway to disable this? There is no sound card on the Windows servers, and thus no volume to turn down.

Worst is that within the Active Directory Users and Computers snapins, if I have a Find window open, and click on the background ADUC, I get one of these beeps, and it HURTS!

Any hints on how to shut that beeping down? (Same on deletes of users, and other actions).

Client is WinXP SP3, target is Win2K8 and others.

windows-server-2008 mstsc

7 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I don't know OS you are using and accessing, but does this help? Disable System Beep in Windows Vista

    Looks like there is a system device that controls that particular beep.

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  2. In MSTSC/Remote Desktop, before you connect, click Options, Local Resources. Then choose "Do Not Play" under Remote Computer Sound.

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  3. disable for session:

    net stop beep

    disable for good:

    sc config beep start= disabled

    note this disables the beep service on your local machine!

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  4. Is this any good ?

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  5. Geoffc. Sign into your server. Bring up Terminal Services Configuration. Edit the RDP settings on it, you can stop it from sending sound, clipboard, etc.

    Disable sound.

    if you still get it, disable sound in the bios! See link below. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/73767bca-021b-480f-9001-fffaae2220da

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  6. You can turn off remote computer sound during a session. After running remote desktop go to the options and under the "Local Resources" tab there is "Remove computer sound" set this to "Do not play".

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  7. When you fire up MSTSC, before you connect to the remote box, click on Options --> Local Resources, and there is an option for "Remote Audio." You can click on Settings and choose "Do not play" for Remote audio playback.

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