One of the most annoying features of Windows XP is, in my opinion, the stupid start-up and log-on sounds. The sounds themselves aren’t unpleasant, but coupled with the fact that for whatever inexplicable reason, you can’t turn off or on the volume until you’re actually logged on, it means that your laptop is basically a walking sound bomb. In the library, you open up your laptop and it emits the sound at full blast. The embarrassment incurred is comparable to that from farting very loudly during a formal luncheon with your boss.
I don’t understand why anyone would ever think of having such a silly feature. It’s completely unnecessary and enhance my experience at all. I don’t need to know when I start up my computer. I mean, I have to manually turn it on, anyway! So I already know when it’s starting up, sheesh! If it takes so long to start up that I need to go and eat something to kill time, then something’s wrong with the operating system and it shouldn’t be sold in the first place. Thus, there are no situations when such a sound needs to exist.
I didn’t actually know how to disable this sound until now. I have happily set those sounds to “none,” and I may soon do the same for all the sounds that serve only to disrupt my thoughts or scare me. I can see very well with my own eyes all the various errors that occur .. I also don’t need sounds to interrupt me then.
I’ve had to carry around headphones for quite awhile in order to plug them in prior to starting up my computer. It was the only way to shush it if I forgot to turn off the sound before putting it to sleep! Ah, finally free from that hassle …
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