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One of my top 5 most annoying things ever is the “beep” that occurs in windows xp when moving the volume control on a non factory windows installation.

Here is how to fix it:

The steps are;
1. Right-click on My Computer
2. Click properties
3. On the Hardware tab, click on [Device Manager]
4. On the “View” menu, select “Show hidden devices”
5. Under “Non-Plug and Play Drivers”, right-click “Beep”
6. Click “Disable”
7. Answer [Yes] when asked if you really want to disable it
8. Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot
9. Right-click “Beep” again.
10. Click “Properties”
11. Click [Stop]
12. On the “Driver” tab, set the Startup type to Disabled
13. Click [OK]
14. Answer [No] when asked if you want to reboot

Thanks to annoyances.org for the fix.

I received an error when trying to install the Dell sugggested audio driver for XP on my Vostro 1700. Instead I installed the audio driver for the Inspiron 1500 from the Dell site and was up and running right away.

Thanks to howtofixcomputers.com for the fix.

I was unable to install a XP wireless driver on my Dell Vostro 1700.  The 1700 is using a dell (actually its a broadcom rebranded) 1390 WLAN mini pci wireless card.  Instead of using the driver on the dell support site under the service tag for your device, use this driver on the dell site.

Thanks to this link at the dell forums for this fix.