Turn off the pesky internal speaker

One of my new projects has a pesky alarm that goes off through the internal speaker. When you're debugging and forcing errors on it, it drives the whole office crazy. Luckily, there's a way to turn off your internal speaker in Windows XP!

1. Load up System Properties (start+pause break, or Control Panel>System)
2. Go to the Hardware tab
3. Press the Device Manager button
4. In the drop down menu at the top, choose View>Show Hidden Devices
5. In the window below, an option appears called Non-Plug and Play Devices
6. 
7. One of the options will be Beep.
8. Right click, choose Disable.
9. Restart your computer if it asks

All annoyances gone!