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Stop the Beeping!!!

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Recently I was working on a PowerShell script which involved translating byte arrays into strings using the appropriate encoding.  Unfortunately I kept getting the wrong choice for encoding and printed out essentially random data to the console screen. 

Unfortunately random data + windows console screens = beeps, beeps and lots more beeps. 

What's even worse is these beeps queue up.  Almost a full minute after a given encoding mistake I was still paying the price.  Highly annoying.

There is no way to disable the beeps on an individual console level.  But it can be disabled on a system wide level.  Beep is a windows service so it just needs to be stopped

net stop Beep

This does need to be executed with Admin privileges.  After that I can code beep free.

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  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2008
    PingBack from http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/stop-the-beeping/

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2008
    Awesome! I'm going to have to give this tip a try. I don't know how many times I hit this problem as well when I use my custom find-string script and hit a binary file :).