Posted on 09/01/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by steve-b
Hmm, this is interesting. According to prominent former Microsoftie Robert Scoble, Microsoft's current plan is to make the Windows Vista startup sound a) unchangeable and b) unmutable. The reason for "a" is branding. Having a unified startup sound on all Vista PCs serves Microsoft well, and Microsoft's Steve Ball says users will benefit....
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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.
Works for me, try this
http://www.members.tripod.com/%7Ebuggerluggs/wavs/cashreg.wav
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...
Nope still doesn't work for me.
Me too. Is it a 'barking spider'?
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.
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.
or, as I had on my old computer, the Looney Toons opening theme for boot-up, and Porky Pig for the closing theme...
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.
All your computer sounds are blong to us!
It asks for a user name and password.
Not sure where you're getting your prices....but looks like the upgrade should cost about $115, which is reasonable.
How, uh, MicroSoft...
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.
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.
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.
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