Today I was installing MOSS on a Windows 2008 virtual machine using VMware workstation 6.5 and I almost blew out my ears.
I had “told” VMware that it should not be able to play sound, and I was listening to music from the host. I even double checked that it could not play sounds, and the service was disabled.
Turns out it still plays the BEEP sound…. REALLY LOUD.
It can be turned off temporarily by writing the following line in a command prompt.
NET STOP BEEP (This works right away, but will start up again after a reboot)
If you want to turn it off permanently you can use the next command, also written in a command prompt.
sc config beep start= disabled (Have to reboot before beep turns off. If you want it to work immediately, use NET STOP BEEP also)
You can start BEEP up permanently again by writing: sc config beep start= enabled
This was my first time running Windows Server 2008, and also VMware workstation (Usually ran Virtual Server / PC or VMware server), and I have not encountered this volume problem before. Maybe it only happends with WMvare workstation, or Windows Server 2008, but I am not sure. But if you got the problem you will know 
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