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Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Douche — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:41:44 -0000

vista? startup sound is least of this crapshit's problems!!!!!!!! ha!

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Chameleon88 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:47:19 -0000

Well really, what do you expect from a company whose founding member found "legal" loop holes to rip other people off¿

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Jeff — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:54:26 -0000

I am really glad they didn't decide to put a startup sound in Vista. I would personally be quite annoyed if my computer made some un-desired sound every time I turned it on. I have no problem with system sounds, as long as there is a simple way to turn them off. And any sound that is still heard when the system is muted seems unacceptable to me.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Gary L. Wynn — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:08:21 -0000

Here is a simple work around I use:

1. Uncheck the Windows Startup Sound
2. Highlight Windows Login and browse for the sound you prefer.
3. Click apply
4. Reboot

If you are single user like me, this will give you the desired result. Multi Users will be stuck with the Windows Login sound you chose.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Alan S — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:08:47 -0000

I have a Mac. I hate my Mac, because every time I turn it on, it blares a stupid sound at me. If I press 'Mute', my key press (they put 'mute' on the KEYBOARD??!?!?) gets buried under the 500 other processes the system is doing, and the sound blares anyway.

I instinctively hit mute again when the sound starts blaring. Two minutes (it feels like) later, I'm interrupted by the computer telling me it's muted and unmuted itself, and playing an unmute sound to remind and taunt me.

The same happened with my old Windows laptop - by the time I'd pressed mute (or, more likely, hammered sound down, because modern laptops don't tell you whether they're muted or not until they've booted up), it's too late. I've disturbed everyone around me, and it's my computer's - sorry, Steve Balls and some anonymous Apple engineer's - fault. And I hate them for it, every time.

Even worse, my new Sony laptop has yet another sound! This one plays even if all sounds are disabled and even if I keep the laptop on mute permanently! It's hardware!!! ARGH!!!!! I've spent LOADS of money on a laptop, but the manufacturers have punished me by preventing me from using it in public unless I know how to hack the BIOS or whatever it is. I HATE SONY!!! And Apple. And Microsoft.

These feelings of burning hatred really mess with my (what was it again?) "spiritual side of the branding experience".

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

JoeyJoJo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:38:43 -0000

Has anyone else noticed how the sound is similar to 'new york, new york'? Meh, maybe it was just me.

The thing which is REALLY annoying is that the sound plays BEFORE you're allowed to login. It would have been fine if the sound played when CTRL+ALT+DEL was ready, but, the sound plays, then you still have to wait for the login prompt.

Anyway, thanks for showing me how to turn it off.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Dr. S — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:35:29 -0000

Is this guy Steve a complete Moron. This is a ridiculous discussion. Give the user the ability to turn off the darn music.... period... No ADD IFS or BUTS.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

AndyC — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:35:32 -0000

Funny. I found this article while googling for a super quickfind on how to kill the intro to Win 2000 (look, i just had a hunch it was going to be buried in an awkward location). Anyway this article (with all due respect) is referring to some seriously wacko comments. Seriously, don't force the intro music on me, don't make me go buy a mac because that will tip me. Don't make me do it!

Anyway, in utter disbelief i thought, what the heck lets waste just a few more minutes of life finding some kind of setting i'm so used to it now i'm numb. After about 10mins of fumbling around (note:i'm a senior software developer and interaction designer) after a few blind turns, i discovered the path. I'll let it speak for itself, and don't try to rebut or i'll have to unleash an article about my favourite "insert signature" interaction WTF i found in Outlook.

Count the clicks (and yes yes i know it's not just about minimising clicks but this is ridiculous)...

Start -> Control Panel... -> (wait for 5seconds since it's at startup?) -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Sound Tab -> Then in 'program events:' you have to click around 20 times depending on the programs you have installed and select 'Start Windows' -> Click the play button (to confirm this is indeed the object of your hatred) -> Click the dropdown to change the sound -> (discover about 35 options) -> fumble around trying a few out of curiosity (hey don't blame me, you gave me the options and made me think!) only to give up and select the (none) option that's about 30 rows up (remember my poor little eye muscles?) -> Click OK.

I'm sorry but this is just not good enough. I'm not even going to install Vista i'm just going to see what others who have more faith than me have to say. But at the moment i'm eying up a macbook pro. I am definitely not into the hype around mac and if MS has improved this time, i'll stick with them. The only thing worse than bad interaction is mindless dogmatism (and hype).

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Fox News — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:33:10 -0000

[...] In a tragic incident today, five US Marines stationed in IRAQ were killed by sniper fire when their hand-held navigation PDA/GPS alerted enemy forces to their position. Initial reports are pointing fingers to Microsoft's Windows Vista start-up sound, but further investigation is still underway. [...]

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Jimmie Ketner — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:52:19 -0000

I have window vista basic
My sound went out both in the back and in the front of computer. I also do have any mic
Jimmie

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Billy Bob Jones — Wed, 30 May 2007 20:47:59 -0000

Comments are worthless..

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

ogman — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:27:48 -0000

To NoOne - Yeah, there is an option to turn off the sounds, but like a lot of things in Vista, it's broke. I turned off the sounds and every few reboots they come back on.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Ray — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:29:06 -0000

Hi, Found your article very interesting.

I wondered if you could answer this question for me.
Can I alter / increase the time a wave sound lasts in Windows XP. Like if I added my own wave sound to Start Windows XP can I make it last about 10 seconds by altering some parameter in the Registry.

Sorry if I'm wasting your time only I've looked all over the WEB and can't find any information on this.

Regards Ray Clark

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Josh — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:06:56 -0000

I like the sound. I want it but I don't want Vista. So who has a file of the sound? I can't find one anywhere!

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Gordon Freeman — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:02:18 -0000

Hey I need to cook my fried chicken.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

tim — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:54:22 -0000

I as a blind user have to have some sound if not all of it in order to use the PC if say ohh jaws or window eyes decides to crash on me like always and I get a sound to tell me that something went wrong or asking me for confermation or something like that. Say for example the windows start sound when you click on the local disk C and open the folder, that helps trimendiously when a user has no speech in going to folders. I like it and all but how in the hell can I delete some of the unneeded sounds in vista that well don't even play when I press enter to play them. only about 2 of them but still It says access denied ant that is really annoying. I like the sounds but I of course I would need these sounds say like the beep codes that tell you something is wrong when the POST fails. very benificial to some one like me. thanks.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

NoOne — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:37:35 -0000

Everybody calm down... right in the control panel's options under sounds there is a direct checkbox weither you want the start-up sound or not. Everybody here argueing so much over nothing. Microsoft heard you and they give you the option...

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Rich Sensale — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:34:53 -0000

The more I hear about Microsoft's decision making process regarding Vista, the more I think that I have time traveled back to an alternate 1984.

I have heard the startup sound. I don't like the startup sound. If I cannot get rid of the startup sound or customize it, than Mickeysloth has lost a paying customer who otherwise may have bougght Vista Ultimate.

Of all the hair brained, contemptable and irresponsible things Mickey and company have done regarding vista, this has to be the one that best illustrates the total lack of intelligence on behalf of their marketing department.

Im going out now and price a few Macs.......

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

What is Vista? — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:22:30 -0000

I like customizing my OS, and the startup sound is one of the first things to go. I'll continue using Ubuntu, then, as it lets me remove that annoying startup sound.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Sean Murphy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:19:17 -0000

Also an additional note.

Said sound only happens when you BOOT the machine, nowhere else. You can disable / change all the other system sounds just as your normally would.

If you put the laptop to sleep and open it up again, and you've disabled all the system sounds in control panel, you won't hear a darn thing.

If you log off and log on as a different user, you won't hear a thing.

This is sound ONLY happens on cold boot, and I don't know about most people, but I only do that once every few months.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Sean Murphy — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:15:23 -0000

It's a sound.

That's it. Not an application, not a small child kicking you in the shin, not your hand getting third degree burns from the oven, just a sound.

I just don't see the big deal.

I spent the day setting up my sister's new laptop for her, it came with Vista preinstalled. I rebooted about eight or so times throughout the day for various applications, every single time I heard the noise. It wasn't jarring, it didn't kill my inner child, it was just a gentle little chime and a pretty Vista logo.

However once your computer is setup, why are you rebooting it a lot anyways? The people that will complain about this the most are geeks, and a good geek doesn't turn off their computer anyways, so where's the issue?

If it bothers you that much, don't turn on your speakers right away, or mute the receiver. It's not that bad of a noise, honest!

Again, it's just a sound.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

ken brady — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:08:08 -0000

Mr Gates, has been making me dance to his tune for years, why not throw in a music tie in.
Otherwise it would not be truly MICROSOFT. As Henry Ford said, any colour you want, as long as it is black. I bow down to the all knowing Master of the Universe.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

Robert Scoble — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:53:54 -0000

L.B. I'm sorry, I don't know. Gigavox has a product called "Levelator" but that needs to be done before compressing to MP3.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

L B — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:20:47 -0000

I hope you're still reading these. What i'd like, as a person who works listening to voice files all day long, is something that will keep EVERYTHING at the same volume--so that I don't have to turn up something said at soft volume, that then blows out my eardrums when the speaker speaks louder or suddenly puts his/her voice closer to the mike. I-POD has this. Does anyone know how you can do this on a computer? Just asking. Thanks. Oh, and I have XP Media Center 2005 right now.

Re: The startup sound in Vista …

David Walker — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:19:36 -0000

"Turn down the speakers"??? I have a very good-sounding par of JBL Pro powered speakers that came with a friend's computer a few years ago. He gave them to me.

They have NO volume control on them, so I *can't* turn them down.

I would consider replacing them, but they sound SO good. (Also, they are LOUD; I have to set master volume control pretty low to get normal music listening levels.)

If the Windows startup sound was at what is supposed to be a "normal" level, it might blast out of these speakers.