Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

war59312 — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:33:44 GMT

Thank you very much! :)

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We Listen!! Mute the Vista Start-Up Sound!

Mr Vista - Clear, Confident & Connected — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:32:15 GMT

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

thomthom — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:01:40 GMT

So, why is the startup sound hardwired? Why doesn't Vista allows you to change it as you where able in previous versions?

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nicktaylor — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 13:13:13 GMT

How about making this as simple as the mac - the startup sound is as loud as the system volume before restarting. So if I mute my Mac and shut it down, when it starts up next, there's no sound. Simple. :)

Windows Vista startup sound finally optional!

Wictor Wilen — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:18:12 GMT

The Windows Vista team has listened to the community (read my previous post on this) and included the option to mute the startup sound of Windows Vista. And also there are a new build (post RC1) out f...

re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

barlog — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:56:45 GMT

I'm downloading now from Connect !
Is that made by Robert Fripp ?

re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

TAG — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:26:53 GMT

Screw up again.

Is you was willing to make us hear that sound system is working fine and acceptable level (and it was not purely marketing-branding decision) - why there is no way to change it to 1/2 second Ding.wav from WINDOWS\Media folder ?

Silence is Golden?

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

SteveBall — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:13:57 GMT

nicktaylor said: "How about making this as simple as the mac - the startup sound is as loud as the system volume before restarting. So if I mute my Mac and shut it down, when it starts up next, there's no sound. Simple. :) "

Hey NickTaylor: Even before this change, the 'mac' behavior you just described is exactly what happens in Windows Vista. This sound (and all sounds coming from Windows and applications) is 100% mutable and controlled by the default device volume slider setting that is adjustable in the Windows Volume Control.

If you mute or turn down your device volume in the systray Volume Control or in the new Volume Mixer, this sound respects that setting. Even better, unlike all Windows XP sounds, the new Windows Vista Startup sound is authored at a 'comfortable' level, so that if you set your device volume so that the new Startup sound plays comfortably, the rest of your sounds will also be 'comfortable.'

This new checkbox simply gives users the ability to mute only the pre-logon Windows Vista Startup sound.

-Steve

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

SteveBall — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:23:17 GMT

One other note for those who may still be thinking that the sound experience in Windows Vista is different than XP:

You can still have exactly the same, 100% customizable sound experience that you have today in XP.

You can set the "Windows Logon' event sound to be whatever WAV file you wish, this effectively replaces what used to be the XP Startup sound (which always played post-logon before you land on the desktop.)

If you still want your own 'custom' post-logon 'startup' sound, this "Windows Logon" event provides just that: it plays just before you land on the desktop.

In addition to adding this checkbox, we will also be removing the actual 'Start Windows' event from the Sounds tab listbox to avoid confusion. And, we're now officially calling the new Windows Vista pre-logon sound the "Windows Startup" sound.

What was previously the XP 'Start Windows' sound is now simply the 'Windows Logon' sound and event (and this is 100% customizable.)

With this, for all practical purposes, the Windows Vista sound UX is 100% parallel to XP. If you want 'no sound' simply uncheck the checkbox and select the "No Sounds" scheme - done!

There are many complicated gory details about why we implemented this the way we did (checkbox, vs using existing event, etc.) that I'll gladly share if anyone wishes to go deeper.

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

Zyphrax — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:55:37 GMT

Good choice to include this option, it gives the control back to the user. Do you have any idea when the real Windows Vista startup sound (the one channel9 was referring to) will be included? Last-minute for RTM?

And what about the black titlebar when a window is maximized :). I know why you like it black (weird CRT reasons, "transparency is useless when maximized"). Just turning off transparecy when maximized, would look a lot better IMO.

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Muhannad — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:08:09 GMT

Indeed a very appreciable feature added to the list of excellence. There could be another chance for us to rejoice if the shut down sound could also be equipped with a similar power to mute itself or better still if an independent sound control option is added for both the shutdown and the start-up sounds it could really make the whole idea sparkle.

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someone — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:02:16 GMT

Good now do something regarding the Backspace key and the Up one level functionality. Breadcrumb bar is only for mouse users what about keyboards?

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n4cer — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:41:23 GMT

Muhannad, you've always had the ability to mute the shutdown sound (even in previous versions of Windows).
In Vista, right-click the volume icon in the notification area, click Sounds. Scroll down the list of sound events until you come to "Exit Windows". Change the sound for that event to "[None]". There's also a sound event for logoff in case you also want to disable that. It's event is called "Windows Logoff".

someone, use Alt+Up Arrow to go up one level using the keyboard. Backspace just traverses backwards in the navigation history as it does in IE.

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

Lone Shepherd — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:09:31 GMT

To Steve Ball and the Windows audio team:

THANK YOU!

Being able to easily disable the startup sound is music to my ears ;)

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re: Update on Ability to Mute the Windows Vista Start-up Sound

peterkirn — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:41:12 GMT

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I use Windows machines as performance tools for both music and live visuals. Disabling this means escaping a huge faux pas. (There are other tricks, too, for live visualists / VJs, like disabling the login screens and going to black wallpaper ... hey, this stuff is a big deal when you've got an audience or club crowd and you're hooked into a projector and/or P.A.)

I even mentioned these tricks in my book, so I'm really pleased that the dialog is so similar.