How to disable irritating beeping sound in PowerShell

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sometimes I run grep (aka select-string) that has string that occurs too often, then PowerShell goes crazy, sometimes I manage to kill it with Ctrl+C, but even then I have to endure irritating beeping sound for 30 + seconds... can this be disabled also without killing terminal where it is running?

@STTR: Make that sc.exe, since sc in PowerShell is an alias for Set-Content. Read http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838671 for more details. Make this in to an answer. — Jay Bazuzi, Mar 28 '13 at 05:12
The term 'sc.exe' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. — NoSenseEtAl, Mar 28 '13 at 09:16

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 23 '17 at 13:02

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Open your PowerShell profile, or type:

if (!(Test-Path $profile)) {New-Item -Type File -Path $profile -Force}

to make a profile if one doesn't exist.

Then add Set-PSReadlineOption -BellStyle None to the profile to turn the sound off.

(that sound drives my dog insane, it was sapping my will to live)

edited Mar 23 '17 at 13:02

Chris

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answered Mar 23 '17 at 11:27

LibbyC

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 21 '13 at 23:14

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This powershell is the SC equivalent that was already answered.

Get-Service Beep | Stop-Service -PassThru | Set-Service -StartupType Disabled

answered Apr 21 '13 at 23:14

MFT

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This can be simplified to Set-Service beep -StartupType Disabled if you are only looking to disable the service. – Iain Ballard May 05 '17 at 07:07

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 15 '23 at 18:11

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Right-click the window menu bar, select 'Settings', then on the left click on the 'Windows PowerShell' profile, on the right and at the bottom choose 'Advanced', then unclick all the checkboxes for the 'Bell Notification' style.

PowerShell Appearance Settings

edited Mar 15 '23 at 18:11

Toto

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answered Mar 15 '23 at 17:49

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How to disable irritating beeping sound in PowerShell

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