Windows XP / Vista / 2003 – Turn off the system BEEP service.

Mar 21

Sometimes I get annoying / irritating BEEP sound from my notebook. My office environment is very quiet, and the moment the BEEP sound emits from my notebook, my office colleagues will start to turn their heads around to see what I’m doing. This guide can be used if you want to turn off system BEEP for a particular virtual machine in VMware. Alternatively, you...

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The proxy :8080 is requesting a user name and password. The site says:

Mar 19

Once I configure the proxy settings in my firefox. I keep getting the below prompt whichever site I surf. I’m using Firefox 3.6. The proxy :8080 is requesting a user name and password. The site says: Type about:config in your firefox address bar. Click I’ll be careful, I promise button when you see the dialog box “This might void your...

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VMware – Turn off the system BEEP in all virtual machines

Mar 19

Initially, I was thinking by disabling the BEEP service in my (host OS) windows system will help to keep the BEEP sound away for my (guest OS) virtual machines. But I was wrong. Certain tasks which i performed in my guest will trigger the BEEP sound. Click on the below link if you want to disable system BEEP service in particular (guest OS) virtual...

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