Relation to beep service / restarting the computer
The relation (if any) to the
beep service is unclear.
Some sources on the Internet suggest to stop or restart the beep service after making a change to this key in order to apply the changes with immediate effect.
However, I found that I could not stop the beep service, the service hangs after stopping it:
C:\> sc stop beep
SERVICE_NAME: beep
TYPE : 1 KERNEL_DRIVER
STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
C:\> sc queryex beep
SERVICE_NAME: beep
TYPE : 1 KERNEL_DRIVER
STATE : 3 STOP_PENDING
(STOPPABLE, NOT_PAUSABLE, IGNORES_SHUTDOWN)
WIN32_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
SERVICE_EXIT_CODE : 0 (0x0)
CHECKPOINT : 0x0
WAIT_HINT : 0x0
PID : 0
FLAGS :
Thus, it seems, to me at least, that I have to restart the computer to apply the changes.