Pretty recently (as of 2.2.2) Pidgin had a update that made my system beep happen any time I was in a chat window with no text and hit backspace. I thought it wouldn’t bug me but if I hold backspace with text the system beep would just keep repeating when I ran out of text to erase. I had an old fix for this which was just disabling the system beep in device manager.  This worked great because who ever needs the system beep anyway? Unfortunately, with Vista Business 64 I cannot find the system beep in device manager anymore.

I searched around a bit and found out I was not the only one with this problem. A fix put on Pidgin’s website said you just had to add

gtk-error-bell = 0

to your %APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0 file. If you do not have that file you can simply create the text file, put that line in, and restart Pidgin.

Enjoy this little fix.