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I just want to chime in and say that this is a pet peeve of mine about laptops.

Even for laptops which have specific volume buttons on their keyboards, you often have to wait for Windows to boot up and load the tricky-dicky driver that links those keys to the sound drivers.

This means if you've got an annoying windows startup sound, and you boot your laptop in a place where you want to be quiet, you can't shut it the fuck up while Windows boots.

I can't speak for all laptops, but by the time Windows gets to the boot-up music I can quell it easily with my [func][mute] or also control the volume. The thing is that this laptop spends 90% of the time in the dock in my office.
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