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Archive for May, 2009

Working with mysql from the windows command line always unleashes at some point the loudest sound that can be generated by a sound card.

Well, here is how to turn off that feature.
Taken from:
http://www.slashdotdash.net/2006/08/17/kill-the-annoying-windows-beep-internal-speaker/
Thank you Ben. You’ve saved my ears.

Perform the following steps to disable your machine’s system beep:

1. Right-click My Computer and select Manage.

2. Expand System Tools and select Device Manager.

3. From the View menu, select Show hidden devices.

4. Expand Non-Plug and Play Drivers.

5. Right-click Beep, and select Properties.

6. Select the Drivers tab.

7. Click Stop. You can also change the start-up type to Disabled so the beep service never starts.

I like that windows wants to update and improve itself, but I hate that it wants to choose when to restart and that it nags you until you do. Where is the snooze button for this process?

Run this from the command line (as an administrator).

net stop wuauserv

It stops the windows update service.
The next time you restart your PC, everything will be back to normal.