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The crickets start up and soon there's an orchestra, a dome of sound over us.
Start up.
There are no circuit-board motifs, techno start-up sounds, weird shifter knobs or special Eco modes.
Look at these early Windows start-up sounds.
In this video a faceless designer cuts up – and then reassembles – a Dell netback into a phone, complete with start-up sounds.
Ed Bott, in return, fires back that start-up sounds that are as loud and obtrusive as a fart in temple – like the Windows XP sound and, potentially, the Vista sound – should be modifiable by the user and should be completely removable, if said user so wishes.
Investing £100,000 in 10,000 start-ups sounds good, but investing it via equity is hard.
The music started up and sounded approximately like a dance remix of spooky theme songs from Alfred Hitchcock movies as if they were being peppily performed by the cast of "Glee".
It was a little scam an acquaintance of mine had started up and it sounded good at the time.
Other than a few chimes and classy sound effects that communicate "everything is working" — the best being Brian Eno's beautiful late-lamented Microsoft start-up sound — a personal computer should produce only the white noise of its fan.
To turn off the start-up sound in Windows XP, go to the Start menu, then to Control Panel and double-click on the Sounds and Audio Devices icon (this icon is simply labeled Sounds in Windows 98).
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