Is it 1 O’clock? Nope, its just my Mac starting up!

There is no doubt that the Mac start up bong is very annoying, especially to a Windows user who disables all start up sounds. I can also get some very strange looks from people who are not familiar with it.

Thankfully third party software comes to the rescue once again. StartupSound.prefPane from Arcana Research inserts a preference pane into the System Preferences to control how loud the bong is, or to mute it completely.

If you have an Intel Mac I would recommend you download version 1.1b1 from Mac Update.