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MOTHERWELL · Jan 4, 2005, 02:48 PM

The startup chime on my MDD is way too loud.

Is there a way to mute this in OS X? I know I could just plug in a pair of headphones every time I startup, but I usually turn my computer on in the morning after I get up and I am not the most alert at this time. The chime is really unsettling to hear this early!

d0ubled0wn · Jan 4, 2005, 04:42 PM

You could write an Applescript that sets the system volume to mute at shutdown, then another script could reset it back at startup. I'd thought about writing such a thing... but I rarely ever do restarts these days. Only when I do a system update.

d0ubled0wn · Jan 4, 2005, 07:58 PM

Found this thread over at Macosxhints.com that may help:

http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=184

lenox · Jan 5, 2005, 11:01 AM

There's a lot of software that does this. My favorite is this one .

Ever since I got a pci sound card for my tower, the startup chime was played from the internal speaker (as I no longer had external speakers attached to the built-in sound card's line-out) and it was super-loud and annoying. This lets me mute or decrease the volume of the chime.