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The Vista Startup Sound: You Can't Turn It Off
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Posted on 09/01/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: dubie
You've been added. Welcome Aboard!
41
posted on
09/01/2006 8:42:14 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: scott7278
Zackly. They piss you off even when they have nothing to gain and make you swear you won't do something the Microsoft way, even if it kills you.
42
posted on
09/01/2006 8:42:24 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: ShadowAce
43
posted on
09/01/2006 8:43:14 AM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: steve-b
I don't understand how they can do this. The startup sound is just a .wav file stored on the hard disk somewhere. On my windows machine, I found this file, and replaced it with something more to my liking (an excited chimpanzee). You could also replace it with a silent .wav file...
To: Vision
Nope still doesn't work for me.
45
posted on
09/01/2006 8:43:57 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: ShadowAce; Vision
Me too. Is it a 'barking spider'?
46
posted on
09/01/2006 8:44:43 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Islamic communities belong in Islamic countries.- Eric in the Ozarks)
To: shorty_harris
I thought that too, but if I wanted to make it impossible for someone to change it or turn it off, I'd embed the sound in .wav format inside one of the system files. Can still be hacked, but it's not as trivial.
47
posted on
09/01/2006 8:45:24 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: steveo
I'd turn my speakers off. On some laptops, there isn't really an independent "off" switch for the speakers. Instead, there's a switch that sets the Windows sound setting to "mute" -- a setting that would be overridden for the Vista startup sound, if Microsoft persists in this plan.
48
posted on
09/01/2006 8:47:44 AM PDT
by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
To: null and void; ShadowAce; Still Thinking
49
posted on
09/01/2006 8:49:49 AM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: shorty_harris
or, as I had on my old computer, the Looney Toons opening theme for boot-up, and Porky Pig for the closing theme...
50
posted on
09/01/2006 8:49:59 AM PDT
by
Andonius_99
(They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
To: shorty_harris
They could code it into the OS kernel. It wouldn't be the first time a marketeer left the engineering department with bruise marks on his throat.
To: ShadowAce
All your computer sounds are blong to us!
52
posted on
09/01/2006 8:51:48 AM PDT
by
dubie
To: Vision
It asks for a user name and password.
53
posted on
09/01/2006 8:52:16 AM PDT
by
steve-b
("Creation Science" is to the religous right what "Global Warming" is to the socialist left.)
To: daviddennis
Not sure where you're getting your prices....but looks like the upgrade should cost about $115, which is reasonable.
54
posted on
09/01/2006 8:52:38 AM PDT
by
mx5
To: steve-b; null and void; ShadowAce; Still Thinking
Seriously? It was a joke, it's a cash register sound effect.
Both are available right off the web. Damn computers.
55
posted on
09/01/2006 8:55:11 AM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: Vision
ka-Ching.
How, uh, MicroSoft...
56
posted on
09/01/2006 9:00:40 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Islamic communities belong in Islamic countries.- Eric in the Ozarks)
To: Vision
The link in 49 works fine for me. I didn't realize you were joking or I'm sure none of us would have harassed you so much about the link. I thought it was a link to the real sound.
57
posted on
09/01/2006 9:01:42 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: mx5
looks like the upgrade should cost about $115, which is reasonable. Mac OS X 10.5 will cost about that much when it is released next spring. Thats pretty reasonable for an operating system upgrade.
However, I can't see any compelling reason to upgrade to Vista. WinFS might have been a good enough reason, but they took that out. Vista looks like just more bloatware and eye candy.
58
posted on
09/01/2006 9:04:39 AM PDT
by
jude24
("I will oppose the sword if it's not wielded well, because my enemies are men like me.")
To: jude24
Mac OS X 10.5 will cost about that much when it is released next spring. Thats pretty reasonable for an operating system upgrade. Fedora Core 6 won't cost me a dime.
59
posted on
09/01/2006 9:10:53 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Fedora Core 6 won't cost me a dime. Fedora Core 6 (as with every other Linux distro) is a great OS for someone who has the skills, time, and inclination to play sysadmin. For those of us who do not have the skills, the time, or the inclination to do so, Linux is still a very poor choice, and we're stuck, for better or worse, with either OS X or Windows.
60
posted on
09/01/2006 9:14:21 AM PDT
by
jude24
("I will oppose the sword if it's not wielded well, because my enemies are men like me.")
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