Windows Nt Workstation 4.0 Startup Sound

[Dinah Lianes]

Therehas been a lot of discussions around the net on the non-customizable and non-removable Windows Vista startup sound. Robert Scoble has a post that explains why the Vista team decided to design it like that.

Finally! According to Stuart Kent, program manager at Microsoft, the DSL Tools V1 will be a part of the Visual Studio 2005 SDK Version 3 at the first part of september.I have now a long time waited for this release so we can build our own designers for Visual Studio 2005. Currently my company have a huge demand from our customers that our application should be more easily customized, and the DSL tools will really help us out.

can we address the stupid start up occ sound? do i always have to listen to it when it starts up? is there no option to turn it on/off if it cant be completely removed? almost tore my eardrum the first time i heard it on headphones.

thanks for the response. but i cant seem to find the program events section in the sound window. tried looking it up why it wasnt present there but couldnt find anything for it. any idea why this is so?

@rohan98 I would appreciate if you could tell me if this is either the Omen Command Center your are referring to? Or is it something else? Meanwhile, try the below steps to disable the windows startup sounds (as the last set of steps haven't worked):

1) Select the Start button, then select Settings > Apps.

2) Choose the program you want to remove, and then select Uninstall. Some apps built into Windows can't be uninstalled.

3) To remove an app you got from Microsoft Store, find it on the Start menu, press and hold (or right-click) on the app, then select Uninstall.

4) Restart the HP Omen and download the Command Center from this link.

Also, if you are having trouble navigating through the above options, it's most likely because the device is out of warranty, is yes? please send me a private message with the region you are contacting us from,

As little explanation, I am about to write a program restoring custom startup sound for Windows Vista (and higher), running non-elevated, without being a service and placed in current users Autostart. But my app should play the startup sound ONLY, if MS doesn't already play the logon sound. This should be determined by the following dummy script:

Every computer I ever had, the first thing I do is to turn off the startup sound because it is very annoying in a public place and sometimes in a quiet place. I have not been able to find out how to trun it off on my Air. I asked the guys at the stores and they just say you can't. That is really dumb. I turned off my speaker but that is not a practical way because I may not remember to turn it off when I shut down.

To disable the startup sound that plays when you turn on your mac, simply hold down the mute button while pressing the power button. Keep it held down for a while, until after the sound would have normally played.

I hope Apple will actually hear the millions of users that want this option. My ipad and iphone do not go BONNNG!! so why does my Mac have to do the this. How about at least make the option to change the sound to be the iphone "Drop" or some Apple chime that is quieter.

the more I read this forums,the more fun i have... a sound to tell you critical things? really? what century is this? people are supposed to have evolved, and know how to read stuff. give a **** message, telling what is wrong, not a sound! who remembers sounds codes, multiple keyboard shortcuts an terminal commands? 21st century ...MG..

There are third party utilities like Psst that can control the boot chime volume. But I recommend you really don't want to turn it off. It's not just there to say "hey, I'm booting successfully". It's also there to say "hey, I can't boot, there's something wrong, and I'll send you a special beep code to tell you what my problem is".

So if you use these utilities, I recommend you turn the volume down if you want, but not completely off. Check out Psst and look at the Similar Software section lower in that page I linked to.

I have checked previous discussions. I think it ought to be user's choice to use it or not. Seems to me I will know if the computer booted properly after a few seconds. I have had the tone and it still didn't boot properly so I don't think it is that useful.

We'll agree to disagree. Those beep tones may not be useful to you but if you post here with a boot problem odds are someone is going to ask you if you are getting any warning chimes. And even if you are not odds are even higher you might be asked to to a pram reset, safe boot, or boot from the lion recovery partition to run Disk Utility to repair your drive, and so on. These are all standard basic diagnostic techniques that require the boot chime to do them.

Free from the app store, mute or reduce the volume of the startup chime and no longer be hated or mocked by anyone nearby. It's a must have. Gets rid of Apple one big problem lack of volume adjustment of the BOINGGG!!.

i recently bought an iMac and having used windows PCs previously, i find this lack of being able to turn off the start up sound down right annoying. i am usually awake when the rest of my household is asleep, so to have my iMac tell the whole world it's starting up is not in the least bit useful.

i have earphones constantly plugged in, and i thought, oh the sound will play through them, like it does on windows, but oh no... i tried muting the sound, like i have on my windows computers, but again to no avail. say what you will about windows, they've got the sound settings i like!

why must apple dictate to us like this? it really is the simple things like this that make people see brands in a negative light. and have me saying, you know what? macs aren't all they're cracked up to be!!

@X423424X - surely apple are genius enough to let us turn the startup sound off, yet if there is a problem on boot up, a 'special chime' would still sound. doesn't seem that hard to me, microsoft clearly managed it.

The Windows 95 startup sound is something special. The first time it was not just a simple signal, but a jingle. The story behind it is something with Brian Eno, on aseparate page . Duration: about 6 seconds.

On startup, computers perform a Power-on Self Test, commonly referred to as a POST. If problems are found while booting, you can usually diagnose them using the error codes displayed on the screen. However, if nothing displays on the screen, the computer might use sounds (that is, beep codes) to tell you what is wrong. Many of these errors indicate hardware problems that a service technician should fix. However, some errors are easily fixed. For example, keyboard controller errors often mean that your keyboard isn't plugged in.

Today the browser only opened 2 of the 11 windows i had open in previous session. I had 11 windows containing tabs varying from 50 to 97, so not a huge number of tabs all together at all! i had 2000 tabs open in chrome or firefox easily without problems.

I reopened Brave after restarting the laptop, and with the 2 out of my 11 previous windows opened on startup, sound is playing from a youtube video that was not from any tabs within these 2 windows. I manually went to the history pop up menu and re-opened the other 9 windows from a messy pile of recently closed tabs and windows, many of which double, and even though i found the window containing the youtube tab that was STOPPED and NOT PLAYING.

Eventually the sound drove me nuts and i shut down Brave again. Then reopened and the problem stayed EXACTLY the SAME. Then i restarted laptop and now i open BRAVE and i only have 2 windows left, the other 9 are gone, permanently, nowhere to be found in the recently closed pop up bar. THANKS A LOT BRAVE!

I usually shutdown my computer at the evening with my browsers open, and just start it after next startup; everything was there in Chrome, Brave, Firefox - but a few days ago Brave killed all my Windows except one.

Same issue here, was using 3 Brave Windows with 20 to 40 tabs each and after rebooting my Windows computer only 1 tab comes back. Windows 10 1909, Brave 1.1.22. If I change the startup options to open current tabs I see all of my windows that were supposed to open up. I then close Brave and open it again only to see a blank new window. If I go to History I can restore a single window of tabs or browse through the junk listing of closed windows to restore, but not all show up. Highly annoying and considering dropping Brave back for Chrome.

Sadly, my favorite scene was deleted in the final edit of the movie. Fortunately, I found this clip on the cutting room floor. Here I am, telling the real story behind the urban legend of the infamous Sosumi beep sound on the Macintosh.

But by far my favorite interview took place at a coffee shop near my home. If you jump to the 13:15 mark, I tell the story of how I created the Mac startup sound. At 24:35 I tell the more complete story about the Sosumi beep, and the context of the new sounds I added to Mac System 7.

One of the other sounds I created for the Mac is the one you hear when you take a screenshot (press Cmd-Shift-3). This is also more well-known as the sound you hear when taking a photo on the iPhone and iPad.

This last video has become a favorite. CNBC contacted me asking if they could come to my house and ask some questions about what I had done while at Apple. I got to show off my music room filled with vinyl records, a didgeridoo, and reveal the instrument I used to create the Mac startup sound.

Meanwhile, each and every release of MacOS toned down the original aqua theme but by bit and all parts of the system got the same theme update. At the same time, parts of Windows XP were never updated. For seven years the jarring color scheme haunted XP and yet the calculator, the control panel, and many other parts still carried over the Windows 95 look until Windows 10.

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