Re: Vista startup sound impossible to turn off.

[Geoff]

Chel van Gennip wrote:
> There is a lot of discussion about MS' plan to make the startup sound
> of Vista non-customizable. You can't change it, you can't turn it off
> etc.
>
> However, the plan might change and Steve Ball is reading all the
> feedback, both on blogs, and in the newsgroups for beta testers, and
> his team is considering all of this stuff and still has not made
> final decisions
>
> http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/the-startup-sound-in-vista/
>
> What do we think of a DAW that makes unwanted sounds, is such a system
> usable, e.g. for live recordings? As Steve Ball claims he is reading
> this, I think we should let him know how we think about this.
>
> I think the idea stinks, if I record a classical concert, I want to be
> sure my equipment does not disturb the concert. If that implies I
> have to avoid Vista, then that's the way it is.

To suggest that you won't be able to turn it off is ridiculous.

geoff

[Laurence Payne]

On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:03:00 +1200, "Geoff" >
wrote:

>
>To suggest that you won't be able to turn it off is ridiculous.

I'm afraid we're in for the standard season of Luddite raving as
people who CHOSE to buy Vista discover it isn't EXACTLY the same as XP
:-)

[Mike Rivers]

Laurence Payne wrote:
> I'm afraid we're in for the standard season of Luddite raving as
> people who CHOSE to buy Vista discover it isn't EXACTLY the same as XP
> :-)

If it was EXACTLY like XP, why would anyone want to buy it,
particularly if they didn't have to? Eventually every new PC will come
equipped with it and software manufacturers will find some feature to
exploit so they'll stop making programs that will run under XP (hey,
where are all those great DOS MIDI programs like Sequencer Plus?).

But by then, Vista will have been around long enough so that people
will have figured out how to disable any annoying sounds, and maybe
other annoyances will have been fixed. You don't have to be a Luddite
in order to be smart enough not to be an early adopter for anything
other than experimentation.

Want to play with Vista? Buy another comptuer, or a mobile rack for
your boot drive. And don't install it on your one and only notebook
computer that you take out on remote gigs where it needs to be silent.

I had a Sony Vaio notebook for a week before I returned it because it
wasn't doing what I wanted it to do and was doing things I didn't want
it to do, but the most annoying thing was that it played a sound right
at the BIOS level, before the operating system loaded. I called Tech
Support to ask how to turn it off and the nice lady there pointed me to
an option in the CMOS setup something like "Animate logo" that I could
disable. That did it. Maybe some day there will be a nice lady at
Microsoft who can tell you how to turn off the annoying noise.

[Laurence Payne]

>where are all those great DOS MIDI programs like Sequencer Plus?

Still there. And there's nothing stopping you booting your present
computer into DOS. (Real DOS, if the emulation in XP doesn't work).

But they weren't really that great. Surely you're not in love with
"vintage" computer programs? :-)

>Maybe some day there will be a nice lady at
>Microsoft who can tell you how to turn off the annoying noise.

I'm sure there'll be a Knowledge Base article. But you won't need it.
Someone here will advise you by return.