This doesn't really help you make neopoints, but I thought it would cut down on you being irritated, which might help. When you are searching in shops, and you have that "bing!" everytime you refresh the shop wiz, and want to turn it off, it's easy. Go to your start menu, settings, control panel, go to the sounds icon.
It might be different for each Windows system, but under the sounds tab in Windows 2000, go to the Windows one, and under Exclamation, change it from whatever sound it was at to (None). That way you can listen to your Winamp or whatever in peace without all the racket.