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Vista Startup Sound to be Mandatory?
Toreo asesino writes "There has been lots of debate in the past few days over Microsoft's plan to make the startup sound in Windows Vista something that can't be specifically silenced by changing the sound settings in the control panel. Users would be able to avoid hearing it by manually turning down the speaker volume, but then they would have to turn that volume back up to hear anything else."
wait until everyone learns that the new start up sound is the microsoft eula, read out loud, in nonrepeating segments
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Bing!
Delete or Rename the file? or has that functionality not made it into the filesystem yet?
You can always replace the startup.wav file with Homer going "DOH!"
I really don't think this is gonna happen.. even if it does, it's a matter of hours before someone else hacks the startup processes to modify it. Besides, if the sound makes the sound of sucking $$$ out of my wallet, it might be perfect for Vista.
There are 10 types of people in the world; those who can read binary, and those who can't.
It will be something along the lines of this?
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting be
I still hold out hope...
Yes Steve a registry setting please...
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinLogon\ShutTheFuckUp
make sure that dword is set to 1
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
If that's any indication of the design of the rest of the system, it sounds awfully braindead to me. Computers are supposed to work *for* you, not against you.
I see you are new to Microsoft products. Your sig seems to state otherwise, but since you still seem to believe that your computer should work for you, rather than for Microsoft, you obviously have yet to experience any Microsoft product in action.
I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who has to experience Windows for the first time, especially if they are used to any other OS...
NGWave - Fast Sound Editor for Windows
...so can I still run windows on all my machines that don't have any speakers because they're office/production machines with no need for it or are they going to require a soundcard and speakers to run it?
The startup sound will be the voice of Steve Ballmer saying "Please bend over, this won't take long".
The startup sound has obviously become the ca-ching of a cash register.
It'd be pure microsoft...
...sources close to those in charge of Vista's user interface development say the startup sound will be that of '...[M]illions of computer users crying out, and suddenly silenced...'
Friend: "The NIC is misconfigured..." Me: "No prob, I'll just telnet in and fix it." *Silence*
Reason #1. It's from Microsoft
Reason #2. It's been delayed 5 times and still won't die
Reason #3: Fundamentally no better than XP
Reason #4: Still no shell
Reason #5: Or compiler
Reason #6: Takes more space then it really ought to
Reason #7: New added value bonus DRM compliance goodies!
...
Reason #76: It takes more memory than a weather simulation of Earth just to show the desktop
Reason #77: "Ultimate Edition"
Reason #78: Annoying Startup Sounds
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
I'll take a stab here and say that it will contain a subliminal message...
After a while they will begin leasing out the SubLim ad slot to Microsoft Prefered Partners via the windows update function every tuesday.
[/tinfoil hat]
Place a curse on Microsoft
OMG..they have a branded starup sound! Can we have a startup sound too! Please!
"A spiritual side of the branding experience. A short, brief, positive confirmation that your machine is now concious and ready to react."
Spiritual side? WTF does that mean? Do we get Kool-aid if we format the drive?
"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine. Let's say you muted your machine, and you don't hear your startup sound, you know you aren't ready to listen to stuff."
Maybe the power LED being off, the dial at 0 or the red 'no' symbol on the speaker icon might give it away after you hear absoulutely nothing coming from the speakers?
Of course there are the foot pedal mouse and coffee holder ROM drive crowd to think about. Maybe they can get an offical Vista helemt with a send in postcard.
"The Xbox has a hard-wired startup sound. "
Which makes sense. Your siting down to game and the sound system has a mojor role in that experience. It also happens as soon as the machine starts. You know exactly when it's going to happen. It's basically a "hey..it's this loud right now..get your volume set..we're getting ready to game". Not blast you out if you forget where your settings were the previous time and you walked away during boot up.
People get paid to "think" this crap up. It's amazing.
The hacked pirated version is looking more appealing the more I read about vista
Since my first Windows box (WfW 3.11, 1993), I've used an awful lot of different startup sounds, from the sound of breaking glass to the Mac Quadra-era System 7 "CHUNG!", to funny outtakes from voiceover sessions I've engineered.
My current system at work, which I built around an MSI Athlon 64+ motherboard, is housed in a case that looks like a Soviet-era toaster: dull silver-grey plastic and louvers on the front that look like they belong on the hood of a tractor. I festooned the case with hammer-and-sickle symbols and the letters "CCCP" in red type bordered in yellow. That computer's name is "katyusha".
Its startup sound is the Red Army Chorus singing the Soviet National Anthem. Just one verse, though. It annoys my employer to no end, but he'll be the first one up against the wall when the Revolution happens. Fucking capitalist pig dog.
What really annoys me is the faux "click" sound of an unaltered XP install, the one that's bound to Windows Explorer "Start Navigation" events. It's never in sync with the mouse click. Second most annoying is the crumpled paper sound when the "Recycle Bin" is emptied (are those bits really recycled? Hmmm?). I turn those off immediately after an install.
Somewhat less annoying (but all too common) are users that bind the sound of a toilet flushing to the "Empty Recycle Bin" event. Invariably, they're the sort of person for whom a fart joke is the pinnacle of humor. But they bitch like hell when you bind the sound of a lusty wet ripping flatus to each mouse click. "My computer's been hacked!" they complain. "I was humiliated in front of a client!"
How d'you like me now, bitch?
k.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
Alex I'll take what's the most trivial story ever published on slashdot for $1000.
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... you'll always be able to disable the sound by changing your master boot record.
http://outcampaign.org/
Reason #79: Just to make #78 clear, if I want my computer to make a funny sound every time I reboot, I'll lick my finger and rub it across the screen, and if the squeaky sound doesn't amuse me enough, I'll shove it up Steve Ballmer's ass.
Oh please, you are just being over-dramatic. Windows computers don't 'work' for anyone, regardless of who they may be...
Har?
I pulled this bait and switch on my SimCity denizens quite some time ago.
They bitch about pollution, you raise taxes until they can't stand it anymore. They make taxes priority 1, bitch and moan. You lower taxes and they forget they had *anything* to bitch about at the beginning.
I just found out there's no such thing as the real world. It's just a lie you've got to rise above. - John Mayer
Toss a chair.
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
If Vista does require this, and I hear someone turn on their laptop with "welcome to Windows Vista!", I'm going to throw their laptop out a window, no pun intended.
Most Airlines frown upon things being thrown out the window in mid flight....
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Fixed that for you.
Just replace the startup sound with that sound no old people can hear. The librarian will think everybody except you is crazy, even though you're the one running Vista.
Yes, and remember that the best way to accelerate your Vista-based system is 9.8 m/s^2!
It looks like you're trying to boot Windows!
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Possible Vista startup sound files:
1. Ballmer screaming, "I-LOVE-THIS-COMPANY!"
2. Gates laughing hysterically that you even purchased Vista.
3. Gates clip from the 80's praising the Mac.
4. Gates laughing hysterically because he's so rich he now doesn't care WHAT you like in Windows.
5. "Cha-CHING!"
I'm sure there are lots of others that would be appropriate...
Nitewing '98
Everything works...in theory.
Fun prank: change your air-traveler friend's Windows starup sound
Laptop:"This laptop will expode in 10, 9, 8 ..."
Federal Air Marshall:"Sir! Turn that off NOW or I WILL SHOOT!"
Hapless Prankee:"Uh, I can't! It's Windows!"
Hee hee!
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
Just you wait until they lock the desktop background to a picture of Bill Gates with a cheesy smile and two thumbs up.
The imagine how glorious it'll look on your 30" multi Monitor setup. *sigh*
And I'd definitely avoid trying to flush it as an alternative.
I'll believe in corporations having personhood when Texas executes one... - advocate_one
A computer feature that actually works? All the time?
Oh, well, there's a pretty good chance that Apple's switching to Intel CPUs and the associated hardware architecture will fix that and you'll get to enjoy the pleasure of full reboots a lot more often just as we fortunate PC owners do
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey
Wow, a joke nearly hit you!
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "girlfriend" have been masked.
!!! possible candidates are:
- jen/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~taken)
- mary/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~uninterested)
- karen/girlfriend-1.1.3-r5 (masked by: ~uninterested)
!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
If fate makes you a motorcycle, you become a motorcycle.
Apple was the first computer to have a "start up" sound other than a beep. Responding to customer demand they added a feature that allowed you to turn it off. Microsoft, on the other hand, is removing a feature that, for the past 20 years, people have stated they want.
See the difference?
Kind Regards
"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us w
would you imagine he would say "Please"?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
The "Your copy of Windows is pirate" would just make people laugh and brag about it. What they really need is a "Hello. I'm watching GAY PORN! MEN HAVING SEX WITH MEN! IN THE BUTT!" sound played extremely loud. They could blackmail people into actually buying legit copies, especially if they syngergized by incorporating text-to-speech technology with the search history saving functionality of Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Genuine Advantage Automatic Updater and used the startup sounds to effectively communicate interesting search histories to anyone in the room. "Hello. I'm a pirated copy of Windows Vista. I was used to search WebMD for 'penile discharge' last night. Please contact Microsoft Legal Department in order to have your startup sound changed."
Hmm, I'm tempted to write a little proof of concept program for my own pirated copy just to see how it works... The hard part would be getting it to find the juicy stuff on its own.
SWM seeks new sig for a brief fling
Sam, I'm sure you'll remember Richard's laptop starting with 'Good Morning Vietnaaaaaam' every day... need I say more?
Matt.