Comments on: Stop the Mac Startup Sound

By: Cátia

Cátia — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:16:28 +0000

i only could mute the initial boing when i install the lion.

By: Cátia

Cátia — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:15:31 +0000

I did that and it still doesn’t work.
That means that even i mute the sound in the last session it still had the sound of the initial Boing”

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:03:20 +0000

Thanks, works well on my 10.6.8. Just needed to ‘require password’ for preference changes then as stated in your bug fixes, I left the lock icon open then closed out of systems preferences.
Cheers.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:07:18 +0000

I’m really frustrated with this. I’m using 10.6.8 with an early 2011 MacBook Pro and for the life of me nothing can stop that @#$%!! startup chime.

I tried holding down the mute button, doesn’t work. I plug in headphones, doesn’t work.

I remember with all my Mac before I just plugged in my headphones if I wanted to quietly boot, now I’m stuck with this and it’s highly annoying.

God forbid I need to zap my pram at a library. Ugh.

By: SimonL

SimonL — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:33:50 +0000

Well Tommy, unless Steve Jobs was the very worst type of micro-manager, I don’t suppose he was personally responsible for the startup sound

By: Fem_Tek

Fem_Tek — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:40:55 +0000

Perhaps this will help:

The Application works fine on my MBP’ OS X LP, 2010.
What I’ve noticed is that whenever you install, update or navigate certain applications, and if you have your KEYCHAIN Locked before allowing Applications to be installed, once you “unlock” the keychain it leaves your system preferences unlocked as well.

In saying this, under the Startup Sound App, you must “Lock” your preferences back after choosing to mute the sound in order for OS X to disable the sound.

This works almost everytime! Good luck!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:24:05 +0000

Plugging in earphones doesn’t work on my MBA. The startup sound comes out of the speakers anyway.

I agree with Seb. It’s ridiculous that you can’t just switch the thing off. What was Steve Jobs thinking?

By: Minnox

Minnox — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:29:13 +0000

I installed StartupSound.prefPane in my MacBook Air 10.6.7 and some times it will boot quietly and some times it won’t.
Holding the mute button down won’t work either, so, if I really wanna make sure it won’t make the startup sound, I boot it with the earphones plugged. There you have my five pence…

By: seb

seb — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:01:52 +0000

Doesn’t work for me (10.6.6). The sound still appears at start.

Quite strange that you can’t disable that by default…I don’t want to hold any button at boot…or mute before restarting…ridiculous…

By: All-Purpose Guru

All-Purpose Guru — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:02:45 +0000

Easter Egg alert.

Hold down the mute button while booting. No sound. I generally only hold it down for a few seconds.

This doesn’t alter anything, it just tells it to boot “quietly” this time.

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By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:19:57 +0000

Personally, I LOVE the startup sound of any mac. It warms my heart to hear it.

But I found an easy way to stop it. I just mute the sound before I shut down and when it starts up again it is silent.

By: Motley

Motley — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:36:26 +0000

You could just turn the sound down on the computer and it won’t make any noise when it starts. Free. Easy. Works on all system iterations.

By: Dingone

Dingone — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:48:10 +0000

Well it would be really useful when in the middle of the night I’m rebooting my MacBook. Unfortunately it doesn’t work. I have OSX 10.6.2 over MacBook Pro 2.26 GHz installed. I didn’t try Psst even because the developers didn’t mention my system in their compatibility list.