you cant change the friken startup sound in vista

[Jon Davis]

No, it is the same place where you change ANY of the Sounds.
The fact that it sits there on a check box on its own make it even easier
for anyone to find.

yeah .. except it's partially redundant in function but completely different
in form when compared to the selection list... I have already seen people
have "d'oh!" moments overlooking the checkbox...

Jon

 

[Jon Davis]

I will most likley leave the default sound, just as I have with XP,
but other people love putting their own sound there...

and first of all why did they change this? Its crazy.. like most things in
vista..

"hey lets change this feature just for the heck of it... he he h eh he
hehe"

Idiots!

They didn't change anything. They added. What they added was branding. You
can turn it off. They're smart to add branding, though. Don't like it, turn
it off, or fire up Visual Studio and start hacking at the DLLs and sell your
solution for $20 a pop and be rich. But there are no idiots here.

Jon

 

[MicroFox]

Have you told all this to your doctor?

Don't give HIM YOUR ADDRESS!! He will only hide outside and wait until it
is quiet inside your house. Knowing that your computer is turned off, he
will cut your phone line and come inside to get you. Knowing full-well
that you will have to resort to calling an IM buddy to save your life.
And then he will locate you by the Windows Startup Sound and come down the
hall to kill you!!!

First, I would throw away your PC. Then the worst of your life's fears
will be eliminated.

Then, I would move. Move. Move to a new location every 6-10 weeks in
order to avoid all of this wretched anxiety. Just keep moving around the
rest of your life. Don't look back.

-- Dave

 

[MicroFox]

I disagree. Branding should not be enforced that way. Most people will leave
the default one on anyway.... but why not please a dedicated power user
group who loves to customize this?

I remember a guy who wanted a way to put his whole favorite song as the
startup sound...
and XP could not do that because it had a limitation of the startup sound
time.

If he wanted it why not let him? Remember evolution states that the most
powerful
surviving trait, is to be versatile..... The more versatile an OS is the
better...

 

[Richard Urban]

I disagree. Branding should not be enforced that way. Most people will
leave the default one on anyway.... but why not please a dedicated power
user group who loves to customize this?

I remember a guy who wanted a way to put his whole favorite song as the
startup sound...
and XP could not do that because it had a limitation of the startup sound
time.

If he wanted it why not let him? Remember evolution states that the most
powerful
surviving trait, is to be versatile..... The more versatile an OS is the
better...

Branding is fine with me.

Who here will say that they don't know what "YAHOOooooooooooo" is all about.

How about "Dude, you got a Dell"?

It is marketing. You are beating a dead horse so let it go. Turn it off if
it offends you so and tell others how to do it.



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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Steve Urbach]

I remember a guy who wanted a way to put his whole favorite song as the
startup sound...
and XP could not do that because it had a limitation of the startup sound
time.

If he wanted it why not let him?

Thank you Microsoft for doing something right (accidentally?).

I might be the person in the next cube
AND
I hate that tune

My music is not *your* music and the other way around.
Do you realize how many business users HAVE Sub woofers running at
their desks? (I do, I move computers for pay)

Short and ?sweet?
OK, just short, I can live with that (I hope).
I like brief audible queues of what's happening on the screen. Even
without having to look. My e mail filters play a brief sound for
certain messages. The error boop tells me I screwed up (again).

 

[Larry Maturo]

Hi Paul,

There was actaully an article on this somewhere, and the composer was
shooting for a sound you wouldn't notice. He figured it will be heard
millions of times, and didn't want to tee people off with it. Apparently,
from this thread, he failed.

-- Larry Maturo

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

I want a start up sound to assure that my audio setup is active.

Does it have a tendency not to, so as to make a startup sound necessary?

 

[Travis King]

I had no problems sleeping... ; )

You say that but i bet tonight when you go to bed tonight you can't get
that sound out your head!!
Damn MS with their clever branding techniques.
Damn then i say!