Forms6i Q: how to quash beep under certain deployment conditions ...

First ... we are using Forms6i developed in client-server mode with developer licenses, and then we run these forms / reports / etc. via runtime on a Terminal Server. Oracle does not technically support this, but I can state for a fact that it runs justfine_ and has for last 6 years, and 6 years before that via WinNT. Forms6i is so brilliantly stable, it's hard to think of giving it up ... but that's another story.
Duncan Mills??? Grant Roland??? y'all lurking??? (please don't hate me!!)
We have a form that runs just fine, queries data, creates a list.
It had a double-click (dc) on a key field to go to child record, users could review, edit, save, close, return to list, dc to next rec in select. Handy, because user didn't lose select set and could work at will.
New Requirement ... user wants to open several of those child records at once and arrange at will on screen, close at will, etc.
So ... we figured out how to do this with RUN_PRODUCT (Forms, etc. parameters) yippee!
(RUN_PRODUCT Is woefully searched / documented, except for run reports and, of course, deprecated in 10g, but I digress).
So ... now we deploy our test form on our production Terminal Server (we have a way to do this), an old trooper, a Windows 2000 Terminal Server. It runs just fine, does what we want. Good. Now we put it on our VIRTUAL Terminal Server (VTS), and test again. It all works, lovely, users can open 100+ sessions and VTS does not blink, all to the good (in real time, users will open maybe 5 of these sub-sessions at a time, and we will limit them to 15 via Oracle Profile.
Here's the problem:
On the old TS, it does exactly what we want.
On the new VTS, it beeps 3 times when a child rec is DC'd to.
This will drive the users batty. They need no more noise in a noisy environment.
We have tried the following ...
(a) Quiet Mode (seems to otherwise work, but not with this).
(b) an environment variable ... "QUIET=YES" ... no effect.
(c) turning off server's speaker ... no effect.
(d) changing the settings in the mysterious CONFIG.NT and AUTOEXEC.NT files that still exist in the System32 folder (this was the secret of working with WinNT servers!!!)
(e) looking for a setting in the secretive CAGPREFS.ORA file or the registry ... no luck here so far.
(f) looking thru forms help ... but this is woefully non-descript on beep behavior.
===>>> Does anyone have other ideas or an actual solution?
Is there something peculiar to using Windows 2008 R2 Terminal Server (virtual or not)??
Is there some mystic operating system setting that should be set and is new to us?
Kind regards all, thanks in advance for any clues, especially if you've read this far.
Suzanne Michelle

Steve, the MTSC link provided another link to what turned out to be the answer ...
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/73767bca-021b-480f-9001-fffaae2220da
... I disabled System Beep and System Speaker (under My Computer, Manager, Diagnostics, Device Manager (being sure to click View, Show hidden objects)).
(but I did not reboot server, and perhaps should have, but could not, mid-day)
... I added the Steve-Holk-suggested "DisableBeep" DWORD string to the registry
I quote ...
==================================================
I asked around and found out there is a registry setting with will disable beeps from the server side. Here it is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server
DisableBeep REG_DWORD 0x1
==================================================
... and I did that, and then did restart the server (this is a virtual server, no box, so yet more layers, not normally accessible) ... and the beep was gone.
Yes it did beep on my computer, and if I disabled that beep, it stopped, but I cannot control users' PCs, only the server.
So, in my judgement, this is a Microsoft bug, that the TS is not correctly handling it's own "do not pass audio" instruction, at least without the above specific registry change.
At least now I can live with it!
Thank you SO MUCH for pointing me in correct direction!!
I am very grateful, and my users will be too!
(I will look at the QA suggestion tho' for other reasons, thanks for that too!)
Kind regards,
Suzanne

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