Disable "ding" sound when changing volume on Windows

Every time I change the audio level via Windows 7 Professional x64's Task Bar's audio control to up or down, Windows does a ding sound, which is quite annoying.

How do you disable this?

Alex

Posted 2011-10-27T09:57:19.870

Reputation: 807

1alternatively you can change volume with the hot keys on the keyboard - these don't make a noise (unlike the Mac) – niico – 2017-06-12T16:23:47.610

Answers

This is connected to the Default Beep sound in Windows. To disable it you need to set the default beep sound to None.

To do this:

Type sound into your Start menu and pick the Sound item from the search results.
On the Sounds tab, select "Default Beep" in the list, and set it to None using the dropdown box below (Top of the list)

Warning - You will no longer get any other sound notifications for events that use the default beep.

Joe Taylor

Posted 2011-10-27T09:57:19.870

Reputation: 11 533

5This still works in Windows 10. – eric f – 2015-10-26T19:00:35.213

18Alternately if one doesn't want to lose the Beep sound system-wide, as Joe warned, you can adjust the volume slider with the mouse wheel and it won't trigger the ding sound. – David Metcalfe – 2016-09-30T01:37:30.490

1I am on Windows 10, and this didn't work for me – Toke Faurby – 2017-05-29T21:59:15.327

1@David Metcalfe Thank you so much, using the mouse wheel to change the volume solve this incriminating sound from being activated at 5 in the morning when you want to change the volume without gf waking up – Don King – 2017-09-20T17:07:29.397

@TokeFaurby If you happen to run Windows through Bootcamp you can disable it by right-clicking on sound icon, opening mixer and disabling the sound for Bootcamp Manager. – Ivan Yurchenko – 2018-01-19T13:06:23.353

none of these solutions work on my bluetooth speaker. – Alireza – 2018-08-02T06:47:03.237

It doesn't work on this computer. The "default beep" doesn't seem to be associated with volume adjustments. – Wolfpack'08 – 2019-05-16T01:08:24.157

If you want to turn off the changing volume sound running Windows 10 through Bootcamp (on a Mac machine) the accepted solution might not work for you. You can then disable the sound by right-clicking on a speaker icon (bottom right corner of the screen) -> Open Volume Mixer -> Remove volume for the Bootcamp Manager. If you don't see Bootcamp Manager there try to adjust volume with your keyboard buttons and it shall appear.

(according to apple forum)

Ivan Yurchenko

Posted 2011-10-27T09:57:19.870

Reputation: 223

This worked in Windows 10 running on my Macbook Pro. Lowered the volume of the Bootcamp Manager in the mixer. Thank you! – Marquez – 2018-07-20T00:15:45.457