VMWare Beeps

The other day I was doing some testing in a VMWare virtual machine, and kept getting an annoying beep every time a dialog box was displayed. I changed every sound setting I could find, but could not get rid of the beep. So, it was time to begin google’ing. I found several recommend solutions that involved adding “mks.noBeep = TRUE” to a .ini file, but it seems that the file name, location, and syntax vary slightly depending on your OS and version of VMWare. Ultimately, the easy solution that worked for me was to:

Open Windows Device Manager on the virtual machine.
Go to the View menu and pick “Show hidden devices”.
Go to Non Plug and Play Devices; there is now a Beep item that can be disabled.

Problem solved.