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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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Microsoft's marketing department has metastasized into a cancer on the entire company.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT
by
steve-b
To: steve-b
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:01:57 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: steve-b
I cringe thinking this might be true. So much for ever starting a meeting or class on time. Blech.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:02:17 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: steve-b
Ah, but Vista will not metasticize into a cancer on any of my computers.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:02:19 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Living His life abundantly.)
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:02:44 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: steve-b
There will be a hack to mute/change it pretty quick, I'd guess.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:03:42 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: steve-b
I bet a 12-year-old computer nerd will find a way to turn it off within 12 hour of the release.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:03:54 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Petronski
Linux, the ultimate windows service pack!!!!!!
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:04:16 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: steve-b
Microsoft is now like our Fed. Gov't, big and ineffective. They keep going up with stupid ideas.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:04:40 AM PDT
by
Marius3188
( I have not told half of what I saw - Marco Polo)
To: steve-b
What a pain that would be!
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:05:31 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: steve-b
It will be as annoying as unskippable menus and advertising at the beginning of DVDs.
Time to buy a new computer with XP before Vista becomes required. Never, ever get the first edition of a Microsoft product.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:06:00 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(UN Security Council resolution 1701: I believe it is ceasefire for our time.)
To: steve-b
It is going to stop you from starting up with the speakers off, too?
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:07:34 AM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
To: steve-b
I'd turn my speakers off.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:08:04 AM PDT
by
steveo
(ADVERTISEMENT)
To: steve-b
"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine." That's a good advertisement for a new OS -- sheesh!
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:08:11 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: steve-b
I wonder about the branding value of the startup sound.
The only time I reboot my computer is when it crashes or when its operation has disappointed me in some respect and I think a reboot would help.
This is, of course, not my favourite time to use my computer and so it would be the last time I'd want to have a "branding experience".
Apple has a startup sound when the computer is turned on and passes initial checks. It's reassuring when your computer fails and you're not sure if it will come back up or not. (*)
If my memory serves, last time I used Windows, the startup sound actually was heard before the computer was fully awake and ready for use. I hope for the sake of Windows users that Vista has changed this.
I haven't used a Windows computer extensively in some years, having completely switched over to Apple some years back, so all this talk about Windows is pretty theoretical.
I will say that Vista's upgrade prices look ridiculous. I can't see buying an upgrade to Vista for $200 plus when I could buy a whole new computer for $299, and that computer would certainly run Vista a lot better than even a top-end Windows computer more than, say, six or so months old.
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(*) The only time I had a major failure on an Apple computer was when I put bad memory in it. Let's just say that was a bad idea, not Apple's fault, and leave it at that. Don't buy cheapo memory and get burned like I did!
To: KarlInOhio
"Time to buy a new computer with XP before Vista becomes required. Never, ever get the first edition of a Microsoft product." Yup. Got my new Windows XP machine up and running 'bout a month ago. Do NOT plan on upgrading it to Vista any time soon. Maybe in 3-4 years.
To: 1rudeboy
Whatever happened to looking at the monitor? I don't need a sound to tell me that something's wrong.
And I don't want my laptop making sounds at all -- they tend to occur in the quitest places.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:10:27 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: BenLurkin
Let's hope no one ever has an issue where the sound won't stop repeating.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:13:58 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: steve-b
You can always turn off your speakers.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:14:25 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: KarlInOhio
Or as annoying as those informercials to not steal. Those are so lame!
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:17:51 AM PDT
by
MinstrelBoy
(You, sir, are a villain. You, sir, are a senator.)
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