Permanently disable Mac startup sound

One minor annoyance with my MacBook Pro – hearing the startup sound every time it gets turned on. Not too bad when I’m at home but it’s a major embarrassment out in public. The answer is to install StartupSound.prefPane 1.1b1 which allows you to set the startup volume or to disable is completely.

StartupSound.prefPane is the software which controls the volume of the startup sound of your Macintosh computer. StartupSound.prefPane mute the startup sound without changing the output volume setting. And StartupSound.prefPane limits the startup volume so that it may not become loud even if you make the output volume louder. To set up the startup volume, you select the “Startup Sound” pane added to the “System Preferences.”

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Published:: 12.28.06 / 5pm

Category:: Apple, Mac OS X

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marius 04.10.07 / 4pm

exactly what i was lookin for. thx.
pablo 05.04.07 / 3am

I can’t access the setup on the latest mac os x update 10.4.9
NewToMacs 05.26.07 / 7pm

Oh my lord, THANK YOU. I have been looking all over for a solution to this, I even was about to install rEFIt so I could dig around in the firmware and see if I could find an option to disable that nuisance of a noise. Major embarrassment indeed!! How have people been using Macbooks like mine for this long without getting pissed off and demanding a fix from Apple???
Thanks again!
Ali the Newbee 07.11.07 / 7am

How perfectly marvelous! @ NewToMacs: did you email Apple to tell them that you’d prefered your Mac without the startup sound? Maybe everyone got pissed off but Apple didn’t fix that because they didn’t get any feed back!
Thanks anyway for this helpful little program
Dobro 11.24.07 / 4pm

Is there any possibility to do this without having MacOS installed? I’m running only Linux on my MacBook Pro and haven’t yet found a way to turn it off.
MacsRock 12.14.07 / 12pm

Mactastic, thanks for this great program, much appreciated!!
Mugwash 12.23.07 / 1am

Doesnt work on Leopard on my Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro =(
Nels 01.11.08 / 7pm

This StartupSound preferences panel only works on a successful shutdown. When the system crashes for any reason, or when you press and hold the computer’s off button to turn the computer off, the panel fails to turn the volume down.

A more sound (no pun intended) solution would involve either actually removing the sound resource itself, or removing some setting that links the startup sound with that resource.
peterhalm@mac.com 01.22.08 / 7am

For those of you who say it doesn’t work in Panther or Leopard – it does. At first i didn’t find it when i opened up “Sound” preferences.

You won’t find it in the “Sound” preferences panel. When you select “Show All” preferences, you will see it at the bottom under “Other.” Click “startup sound” and then press “mute”
trackspotter 02.10.08 / 6pm

Yeah I know. But it still doesnt work on Leopard – Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro.
azns13 03.05.08 / 1am

it does work. you have to check the “turn on startup sound” box and check “mute”.
Ben 04.26.08 / 8pm

The only thing that I found has worked for me on a Core 2 Duo MBP (tiger or leopard) has been “Psst” which is free:

http://www.satsumac.com/Psst.php
Ben 04.26.08 / 8pm

This didn’t work for me (MBP, core 2 duo, first tiger, then leopard 10.5.2), even after following instructions “turn on startup sound” box and check “mute”. However, I did find that this worked perfectly, and it’s free:

http://www.satsumac.com/Psst.php
Morgan 04.28.08 / 11pm

This program reliable? Anyone checked for other things it will be able to do in the background without notice?

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