How to mute windows beep sound in SSMS 18.5 everytime you tab in the table designer?

FOUND THE ISSUE: Seems it's not a known bug and I've reported it on their Uservoice. This seems to happen only on SSMS 18.3.1 onwards up to SSMS 18.5. On SSMS 18.2 and lower the issue does not happen. Thanks everyone!

Original text:

Each time I use the table designer and the focus changes from any field (Column Name, Data Type, Allow Nulls, etc.) either by pressing the Tab key or switching to another window, the classic windows beep sound plays. And it's annoying as heck, whoever decided it was a good idea should revisit his objective in life.

SSMS (SQL Management Studio) doesn't even appear in the volume mixer, so I can't even mute it from there unless I mute the entire output device (or System sounds) which isn't what I want. Is anybody else experiencing this or is it happening only on my computer?

Typing "beep" in the SSMS preferences doesn't help much either...

EDIT: Thanks for the Autoruns and Windows Sounds suggestion. Unfortunately, even though I disabled all items in there, and SSMS does not show any sound to be played in the Windows Sounds panel, the beep is still there! :(

Solution 1:

You could try to repair or even reinstall SSMS, but if it doesn't help, the fact that booting in Safe Mode fixes the problem might indicate that some third-party application is responsible for it.

In this case, see the following post for finding out a troublesome product
Identify process sending (emulated) key strokes.

Solution 2:

I've add this exact problem before when filling out grades in an online spreadsheet. Assuming that it isn't caused by another program and is the result of windows itself, you might be able to globally disable that sound effect in Windows.

Go to Settings->Personalization->Themes (Left side menu)->Sounds

Sounds Control Panel

Every system sound will be in that list. I'm not sure exactly which sound it is without hearing it, but disabling that specific sound effect might stop the annoying beep. Try going through the list and see if you can find it, there might a couple with same sound.

As far as I'm aware, there isn't a way to disable the sound effects for specific programs. Hopefully this helps!