main sound card is an asus essence - switched to the citiq pro [realtek] speaker channel still get the beep

installed second copy of pro+ on laptop [with sound blaster atlas] making no changes to pro+ at all, other than the following so as to get the prompt on close [ie disable backups]:

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still get beep

@acorn seems strang some get this and some don't, presumably we are all on up to date win 10... and we have verified on same pro+ version

I have yet to try clean install with windows in default and no other user apps...