Windows 10: Keep hearing intermittent beeping from windows

Everything works perfect on my computer but every 2 seconds I get a beeping sound going "ba-do". I have tried updating my drivers, restarting my computer but nothing is working. The only way I have been able to not go crazy is by right clicking the volume icon and going to the "Volume Mixer" and disabling sounds from "System Sounds" in the apps tab

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Intermittent Beeping Sound

Since I had some free time on my PC, I performed the System File Checker utility on it - only after re-enabling the System Sound back to the original 'Windows Hardware Remove.wav'. After
the PC had performed the test, it came back negative - i.e., it did not find any integrity violations on the system files. I then disabled the System Sound again. FYI, the Windows PC performed just fine, apart from the intermittent beeping sound when the original
System Sound was enabled. The other tests that you suggested has to wait.

By the way, I should mention the hardware on which the Windows PC is currently running. I am sharing that PC's display monitor and keyboard on an Aten USB 2.0 DVI KVMP Switch model CS1784a. Before you go and accuse that piece of hardware of the source of the intermittent beeping
sound, let me state that the 2 PC's connected to it did not have the problems and they are running the Linux and Mac OS X OS'es. Only the 2 PC's that are running Windows 10 had the problem. Does this mean that Windows 10 is the culprit? You tell me!

 

Intermittent Beeping Sound

Before I elaborate on the steps taken so far, allow me to notify you that I have done research on this issue via the internet. Armed with the suggested solutions, I then:

1) Clicked on the 'Start' button, followed by 'Settings'. Then on the 'Settings' window, I clicked on 'System' followed by a click on the 'Notifications & actions' On the right pane, I set the 'Get notifications from apps and other senders' switch to 'Off'.
No changes were made but it had no effect on the intermittent sounds.

2) I then added the 'Get tips, tricks and suggestions as you use Windows' and disabled it. Again this did not help at all.

3) I then enabled the switches for both items back to 'On'

4) Clicked on the 'Start' button, followed by 'Settings'. Then on the 'Settings' window, I clicked on 'Devices' followed by a click on the 'USB'. I then set the one and only switch to notify me if there are issues connecting to USB devices to 'Off'. Again this
did not helped as the intermittent sound still occurred. I therefore set it back to 'On'.

5) I clicked on the 'Control Panel' (since I enabled that icon for my desktop), followed a click on the 'Hardware and Sounds' item. On the next page that appeared, I clicked on the 'Change system sound' item. Then on the 'Sound' window, I selected the 'Sounds'
tab. A list of system sounds appeared under the 'Windows Default' and I moved the cursor to the 'Device Disconnect' item. I then set the sounds associated with that event to '(None)'. The 'Apply' button was pressed followed by the 'OK' button and closing of
the 'Control Panel' window. The intermittent sound did not occur anymore. However, since I set the sounds to (none), I WILL NOT be notified whenever a device is disconnected and this is what is causing a problem - I prefer to be notified.

Hopefully you would be able to suggest a better solution. BTW, this problem did not occur initially. Only when the Windows 10 updates were applied recently (about one or two months ago) did the problem surfaced. This was the reason why I suspected that the
updates was the culprit...but I could be wrong.

 

Logon intermittently bypasses Windows Hello Fingerprint

Hello Mosken,

When I didn't hear back from you I went ahead and re-set my Windows Hello Fingerprint. Three logons (with shutdowns in between) worked perfectly yesterday. But the first logon for today it was back to its old intermittent self to bypass Windows Hello and go straight to the desktop, with no security.

So, just like all the other 'fixes' I've tried over the past 2+ weeks, your four steps can be added to the list of all the things that don't work for this Windows Hello intermittent bypass and proceed straight to Windows Desktop issue.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Jan