[oldshake]

I am hoping that someone familiar with Apple Script can help me... Here's what I want to do:

Automatically turn system sound volume off or very low when I shut down.

Sometimes I accidentally leave the sound up a bit after listening to music and when I start up, my Bose speakers scare the hell out of me!

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Nobody]

try this

tell application "Finder"
set volume 0
end tell

Just paste that into Script Editor, save it as an application so you just double click it to run that. I don't think that there is a way to run apps on Shutdown, so I don't know about that.

[oldshake]

Thanks! That was simple enough. Now I just need to figure out how to run it automatically on shut down.

In the "old days" I could have just put it in the Shutdown Items folder, right?

[Nobody]

I'm not sure when in the start up you get 'scared' but I would think putting in the login items to go at startup would be late.

[oldshake]

It's the Apple tone (I don't know the technical name) that sounds right when I power up the computer, so yes, login items would be too late...

[Johnny_Half-Ass]

um... turn your speakers off?

or if you have no external speakers, plug a pair of headphones in the jack before you start it

[Nobody]

look around for QuietStart, it disabled the start up sound in powerbooks and other models. they might have rewritten it for x.

[oldshake]

FYI: Couldn't find QuietStart for OS X. Don't think it exists...(yet?)

[Nobody]

Oldshake, try this, make OS 9 the startup disk, boot into 9 and lower the system volume. Then restart into X and reset the startup disk to X. That worked for me last time I tried it.

Jeff

[ 12-17-2002: Message edited by: jeffsg4mac ]