I found the answer.....by Googling on "muting the Internet Access beep". It was a somewhat well-hidden box that needed to be unchecked. My life's better now that I don't have to tolerate that loud beep (yep, there was no way I found to control the loudness....it turns out to be an "on or off" toggle switch box).

Pardon my taking up space on the forum.

cchallum