Vmware player is a neat tool to run another OS housed on your computer, with one very annoying, and very painful feature - system beep. The beep is very loud and sharp to kill your ear drum. The sound is not from your sound card, but from PC speaker, with very high frequency and volume. Most of the time, you are not appreciated with this "friendly reminder". To disable it, go to %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\VMware, add mks.noBeep = TRUE to your preferences.ini.