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Auto Mute silences your startup and makes you less of a public nuisance
It happens to everyone with a laptop at some point. You turn on your computer in a library, in a café, or even at home when someone's sleeping, and your blaring startup sound plays for all in the room to hear. Not cool, people. An app called Auto Mute can save you the embarrassment of this little faux-pas by turning off your Windows startup sounds automatically.Not only will your computer be silent at startup, it'll actually be silent afterward, too -- until you tell Auto Mute to turn sound back on again. Auto Mute is easily accessible in your system tray, and can also be controlled by hotkeys.
Auto Mute doesn't need to be installed, either, so you can put it on your flash drive along with Download Squad's other favorite portable apps. Go forth and boot up in public with no fear of shame!
[via Lifehacker]
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Subscribe to commentsPerryJan 15th 2010 12:04PM
Don't get it.
Isn't that what the "Sounds" control panel is for? Are we all really becoming this lazy :P
r3loadedJan 15th 2010 12:50PM
Yes, *they* are (I hesitate to use the word "we")
It's kinda pointless on Vista/7 anyway since Microsoft and Robert Fripp designed the startup sound to be gentle and not cause a racket.
JayenkaiJan 15th 2010 12:51PM
To get to the Sounds control panel, you need to Right-Click the volume control.
Folk with laptops get used to double tapping the little touchpad, for left-click, so you can't really blame them for being too dumb to realise the Sounds option is actually there ;)
cozappzJan 17th 2010 9:14AM
Having windows sounds is so Win95!!
But hey, you don't have to "know" computers to have one!
InfiniteSwordJan 16th 2010 2:31PM
yes this is poointless, you can control startup sounds in the control panel!
glaciaJan 19th 2010 3:18PM
The first thing (one of) I do on install is delete all the OS sound files. Unless you're visually impaired I've never understood the purpose of system sounds particularly at boot.