Comments on: Turn off/mute/disable your Mac’s startup sound/chime

By: David

David — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:49:41 +0000

It’s really perplexing why Apple has not included a feature in the sound applet to turn off and/or adjust the startup sound. Maybe we should ask Apple to do so? Unfortunately, Arcana Startup Sound has not been updated to work in OS X Lion. Also, one of the posters says he needs to hear the startup sound in order to know when to boot into his multiple OS. But I am running OS X and Windows 7 Professional on my MacBook Air and I don’t need to hear the startup sound in order to know when to select what OS to boot, I just hold down the option key while booting up and my OS options appear.

By: Oscar

Oscar — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:30:51 +0000

Press and hold the mute speaker-button while you press the start button and it makes no sound…

By: Deco

Deco — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:44:07 +0000

You seem to be getting a bit of stick from people claiming this isn’t of much use or telling you you wasted your time but my friend I’m very happy you got this pain in the arse sorted out. I worked nights so when my girlfriend turns on her mac it wakes me and trying to get back to sleep during the day can be… tricky.

Thanks bigman, much appreciated!

By: CJ

CJ — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:50:11 +0000

I love you.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:26:37 +0000

Try #2, without touching the backspace (I mean “delete”) key!

Someone may have already discovered this, but below are the steps to disable the “DUMMMM” startup sound, without the need for hacks, special apps, or remembering to mute-before-shutdown tricks, etc.
1) Unplug your MAC
2) Wrap the cord around it
3) Place the MAC, Keyboard, Mouse, etc into the shipping boxes
4) Take it back to the store and exchange for an equivalent PC at 1/2 the price
This will also take care of problems with iTunes problems (where’s the Stop button?!), windows that won’t maximize to full screen, Safari ‘New Tab’ annoyances, and window-dragging annoyances, etc, etc.)

By: ALEX

ALEX — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:02:26 +0000

THANK YOU SOMUCHHHH )

By: Kovelei

Kovelei — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:43:11 +0000

Worked fine until I installed Lion.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:04:55 +0000

Startup Sounds (the program) stopped working with Lion. Since I have a Mac mini and never use the cheap speaker in it I just checked the Mute button in the normal System Preferences/Sound/Output “Internal Speakers Built-in”. If you do use the internal speakers on your Mac, you’ll have to unMute after start up and wait until they update “Startup Sounds” (the program) for Mac.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:36:37 +0000

For windows you don’t need an app Dave they do let you change it . I can’t remember where doh

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:33:58 +0000

Great app. Welcome sound sounded like the first note off that sinead O conner song. Drove me crazy