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Every time my computer freezes, if I click or scroll or otherwise interact, it beeps so loudly my ears actually hurt. If I have earbuds plugged in, it'll beep so loudly that people two rooms over will ask what the beeping noise was.

How can I disable this feature/bug? My ears just can't take the abuse!

It's ringing the pc speaker.

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You can disable the system "beep" noise by going into the Device Manager, unhiding hidden devices, finding the "Beep" and then disabling it.

HowToGeek has a nice guide on how to do it: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/turn-off-the-annoying-windows-xp-system-beeps/

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+1 Never knew there was such a device. – KCotreau Jun 26 '11 at 20:43
No beep device located: i.imgur.com/bhs0Z.png – Cyclone Jun 26 '11 at 21:06
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@Cyclone expand the "Non plug and play devices" part of the tree, it should be in there. – Mokubai Jun 26 '11 at 21:54
Command line version: sc stop beep & sc config beep start= demand – grawity Jun 26 '11 at 22:28
Found it! Thank you! – Cyclone Jun 26 '11 at 23:10
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