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The Vista Startup Sound: You Can't Turn It Off
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Posted on 09/01/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by steve-b
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To: scott7278
"The startup sound is designed to help you calibrate or fix something that got out of wack when you startup your machine."Even if that were true and not a hastily contrived marketing cover-up, it's still not Microsoft's right to decide I MUST leave some diagnostic thing turned on whether I want to or not. It's my hardware.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:18:34 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: steve-b
The sound of a puking bird crashing into a blackboard.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:22:18 AM PDT
by
sportutegrl
(A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
To: steveo
I'd turn my speakers off. Nice try, but installing Vista creates an electromagnetic field around your speakers, and if you try to turn them off, you get zapped. If your speakers are not turned on when installing Vista, then Vista will turn them on for you, like it or not. :O)
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:25:03 AM PDT
by
jdm
(I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
You can always turn off your speakers. Upon installation, Vista creates little tiny, unattachable, undeleteable speakers inside of your hard drive. You can never escape the sound. :O)
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:26:47 AM PDT
by
jdm
(I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
To: steve-b
It will be hacked faster than it takes for me to type out this reply.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:26:58 AM PDT
by
D-Chivas
To: sportutegrl
The sound of a puking bird crashing into a blackboard. The new season of "The View" started this morning?
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:27:40 AM PDT
by
jdm
(I gotta give the Helen Thomas obsession a rest.)
To: steve-b
The one thing these,,, jack@$$es have forgotten is that,
It's MY PC!
To: jdm
"You can never escape the sound."
that might be true if they run the sound thru the tiny speaker in the hardware case......the one that currently beeps once at boot-up (I think it comfirms RAM is sensed)
To: Still Thinking
That's the problem with Microsoft's thinking -- in their business model, they own the software and we merely pay for the "privilege" to use it.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:31:05 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: scott7278
Talk about lame. How about needing to force users to listen to a sound to brand your OS. I think I'll stay with XP.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:31:17 AM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: steve-b
Same old Microsoft.
Delivering features NO ONE wants.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:32:05 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: scott7278
I repudiate their "thinking". They fail to realize I'm a party to this transaction (actually the more important party) and I too have the right to have policies.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:32:50 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Vision
Microsoft will probably eventually say "this is such a great idea, we'll introduce it as an update to Windows XP!"
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:33:52 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: steve-b
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:36:07 AM PDT
by
Vision
(God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2Timothy1)
To: steve-b
yes, but I bet Microsoft will be able to change this sound at will remotely. In fact, it won't be long before we are targeted with advertising wia startup sound spam... bastards. grrrrr.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:40:00 AM PDT
by
dubie
To: Vision
I got a "File is not available for download" message
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:40:21 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Still Thinking
I bought a new computer and needed to install "my" Microsoft Office 2003 on it and take it off the old one. The problem was, I was missing the product key; it was not on the CD case, and it was encrypted on the old computer.
I was told that they were going to charge me $10 to give me my key. I balked; it wasn't the issue of $10, but the fact that I've already bought the stupid program. So I went out on the Internet and found a free program that finds the encrypted key for you.
Thus is the problem with Microsoft's strategy; they find new ways to make you mad.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:41:05 AM PDT
by
scott7278
(The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
To: ShadowAce
add me to the tech ping please?
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:41:33 AM PDT
by
dubie
To: dubie
...I bet Microsoft will be able to change this sound at will remotely. Not on my computer, they won't. I'm the owner of al software that runs on my machine.
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posted on
09/01/2006 8:41:36 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: steve-b; sure_fine
No thanks; I'll keep WIN-XP Pro on all my home and office machines and bypass the Vista crap/garbage/trash.
Shove it, MS!
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