I used to be a PC die hard… I only bought a mac for testing in the early ‘naughties’ and I got hooked. While converting from a PC to a Mac sounds easy (and in general terms, it is), there are a whole bunch of things that can annoy a PC user that has just converted. This post is the first in what will be a series of posts that will attempt to list out things for a ‘switcher’ to help ease their passing through to the ‘other side’.
The start up sound is a standard irritation among the Mac user population. This preference pane will add a preference pane (…) to your system preferences and help you get rid of the “BONG” no matter what volume your Mac has. Ahhh… the silent start up is much better! All my Intel based Macs are using it with no problems, but the maker does warn you to back up your data… so if you don’t have TIME MACHINE configured, I suggest you do (if you are worried). I have noticed, however that if you are restarting, the BONG! returns… but just for the restart…
While I have installed this on 4 Macs without any problems, if you do have problems, please post replies so others can be aware of them.