its weird, cause on my older version on my desk top, I could have the start/stop beeps but it wouldn't have those beeps on the actual recording. I upgraded my desktop version and rarely records the beep now. I should have left the desktop version alone,, sheesh. the only difference I can see is the desktop is running on 32bit windows. although it is 64 capable. The windows free auto upgrade installed itself in 32bit instead of 64bit.