Comments on: Mute the Mac Boot Chime with StartNinja for OS X Lion

By: Honzik

Honzik — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:27:44 +0000

Both utilities (StartNinja and post) work on my iMac with OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion). But only if I have not plugged in the headphones. If I have headphones plugged in, the iMac plays “ta-dam!” on boot. And it plays it from internal speakers!

By: How to Disable the Mac Boot Chime Completely

How to Disable the Mac Boot Chime Completely — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:04:30 +0000

[...] the Terminal, you’ll be better off using the one-off Mute key approach or using a simple tool like StartUp Ninja to silence the sound. StartupNinja is basically just a GUI frontend to the nvram tool discussed [...]

By: mike

mike — Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:13:26 +0000

Installed Startninja on my Mac 10.7.4 and it doesn’t always work once in a while the chime would still go off again and wake up the whole neighborhood. Very annoying…

By: How to Mute the Mac Startup Sound

How to Mute the Mac Startup Sound — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:38:42 +0000

[...] home – for OS X 10.6.8 StartNinja – for OS X 10.7 Lion and later stLight.options({ [...]

By: shoc

shoc — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 02:05:56 +0000

lol… true

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:18:21 +0000

some people travel Alex, and some people run studios. you can always if it passes boot procedure by the Apple logo and spinning wheel.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:57:58 +0000

You really do need to turn it of when working in a library, or trying to take notes in a lecture, or just trying not to wake someone up.

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Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:15:17 +0000

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By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:12:15 +0000

Why would you want to do this? The whole point of it is to tell you if your mac is working correctly.

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:41:34 +0000

Make sure you download the beta, not the “latest stable release.” The “stable” release installs, but won’t work on an Intel-based Mac. Neither will the uninstaller.

By: statman

statman — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:55:54 +0000

it did not work on my Mac Pro

By: Albert

Albert — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:23:16 +0000

Did not work on my iMac.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:40:52 +0000

Startup Sound preference pane sets a volume that applies only to the startup chime:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16425/startupsound.prefpane

I use it with Lion 10.7.2 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:12:28 +0000

I’m so terribly happy I’m still on Snow Leopard. StartNinja looks awful, just look at it. Since Apple made iCal and Address Book look ridiculous people seem to think they can do to the user interface whatever they like to do—as if they are on MS Windows.
Snow Leopard StartUp Sound’s aesthetics are much better, although not perfect either because of the way the credit line is crammed in.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:54:14 +0000

I haven’t tried StartNinja, as I use Snow Leopard. However, “Psst” has been the most reliable program I’ve found, and it works in Snow Leopard or Lion:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/16780/psst