Many threads on the Adobe forum raise this issue but the developers just blame Microsoft, one of them suggested the following though:
I solved the error sound issue by just disabling it system wide.> This is a standard OS behaviour for Windows. This has nothing to do with Adobe Illustrator or any other adobe application...Solution for this is to press the Esc key so that the focus goes away from the menu bar and returns to the document
While I can trigger alt+ d manually, I cant trigger it or any hotkeys that have alt in them with AutoHotkey. I thought this would be an easy task with AutoHotkey but I have tried all my tricks and I am still stuck (also tried sendInput):
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;Send, !d ; does not trigger
;Send, {blind}!d ; does not trigger
;Send, {ralt down}d ; does not trigger
;Send, {ralt up}
;Send, {blind}>!d ;triggers sometimes, if I spam it by holding down space
;Send, {ralt down}{esc} ;the developers suggestion. this changes to the previously active window (its a windows hotkey)
;Send, {d}{ralt up}
I am on windows 11 with Illustrator 2023