annoying welcome sound

[naugahyde]

how do you remove the welcome sound - not the windows one, but the one before?

[Thalamus.]

Hi naugahyde ,

Welcome to the Forum.

If you mean by annoying welcome sound the sound that plays when the Vaio animation runs at system statup.

That can removed in the BIOS settings

[rich912]

There is an option for this in the BIOS (press F2 repeatedly at boot). I can't remember exactly where you will find this but I am sure that you will figure it out as there are very few options that Sony will let you play with:smileywink:

[Foxhound]

Either you can turn it off via the bios settings or you can turn the volume down so you won't hear it anymore.

[naugahyde]

thank you for the rapid answers! I will try that!

[wheresmybeaver]

On the A series Vaio you can reduce the volume of the boot-up sound, or turn it off completely (including the animation) by going to Control Panel => Sony Notebook Setup and clicking the Initial Setting tab. Its pretty loud on the A series so I have it set at a lower level. And if u want to mute it any time you're booting up or coming out of hibernation, the mute button still works even when windows isn't running. Handy dandy.

Dave

[pajm63]

Hi,
there is another way to turn the animation off completely:
go into the "control panel" then into "sony notebook setup" (might be called differently, for example: VAIO Control Center) Then go to "initial settings" There toward the bottom right half of the window you can tick/un-tick the box next to "show boot animation". Unticking it gets rid of the "annoying welcome sound"