StartupSound.prefPane

I just mute the machine before I shut it down.

I've used StartupSound.prefPane on all of our Mac for over 4 years, and some posters here are missing the point of what its use is for.

Here's just one example: If you have a really loud speaker system hooked up to your Mac, and you shut down your Mac each evening, and if you have it automatically restart at 4am to do automatic backups, you don't want to wake the house (dog, cat, kids) with floor-shaking loud startup sound.

Of course, you could remember to turn the volume down each and every night. But who'd do that? Of course, the startup sound can give you clues as to the condition of your Mac. But how many times has that happened? We've run a 100% Mac office since 1992, and we've had exactly zero times that the startup sound went bad.

StartupSound.prefPane rocks. Simple, tiny, stable, and does exactly what it's supposed to do.

PSST DAMEON ID FREE

DONT PAY FOR THIS

You are all idiots. Not one of you thought to mute the computer before restarting?

Try it. Intel, PPC, doesn't matter. Muted system volume will keep the startup sound from playing.

Surrounded by morons, I swear.

hmm, or you can simply mute the sound (F3 key) on your Mac and whenever/ before you restart, you won't hear the Startup sound (even if the compyer crashes and you have to force quit).

YAY!!!!!!

I HATE the startup sound HATE IT HATE HATE IT seriously I HATE IT!

I would actually pay $10.00 for this.

..... i don't even want to THINK about holding a button while i restart or boot my machine. i want it OFF, FOREVER, and ALLWAYS PERIOD.
the startupsound.prefpane is actually one of the first 10 things i download whenever i reinstall mac os or, like recently i get a new machine :)

I have a G4 iBook and all I have to do is hold down the mute (F3) button on the laptop keyboard or the external keyboard after pushing the power button. Makes no sound.

psst! daemon already does that ._."

This is great, could never understand why Apple doesn't let you disable the start up sound.

I use my MacBook in class and have occasionally forgot to turn the volume down before going to class and turning it on and that sound annoys me and other people.