Comments on: startup sounds in Vista https://ward.vandewege.net/blog/2006/09/startup-sounds-in-vista/ Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:55:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: ward https://ward.vandewege.net/blog/2006/09/startup-sounds-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:30:33 +0000 http://ward.vandewege.net/blog/2006/09/01/71/#comment-111 Well – it’s true, others have done this before. But all the examples you give are hardware manufacturers. Microsoft just writes software. What if every proprietary software vendor decides that they need to have a startup chime for their product that can not be disabled?

]]> By: jag https://ward.vandewege.net/blog/2006/09/startup-sounds-in-vista/comment-page-1/#comment-109 Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:21:38 +0000 http://ward.vandewege.net/blog/2006/09/01/71/#comment-109 while i totally agree with you about the absolute complete and utter waste of resources, this is not totally unheard of, and in fact i’d say microsoft is following a trend here. apple computers have had sounds you cannot turn off during startup for a decade — my powerbook with linux still makes the apple chord at startup. many other laptop manufacturers — sony, toshiba — do the same thing. granted, though, i’m not sure i know of another system that forces a sound to you upon the login dialog.

-jag

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