When you power on your PC, it boots up with a cheery start-up sound. While the default sound is not bad in itself, if you are working at a quiet place, say, a library, then you surely wouldn’t want to disrupt everyone from their workflow.

So, let’s learn how you can disable the Windows startup sound for good, and start your PC without all the background startup sound.

How to Disable Startup Sound on Windows 10

Turning off the startup sound on your Windows 10 is a fairly simple process. In fact, it's even simpler than changing the default sound. All you've to do is right-click on the Sound settings in the bottom-right corner of your Windows system tray, and select Sounds.

The Sound settings dialog box will be launched. From there, uncheck the Play Windows Startup Sound checkbox, and click on OK.

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That’s all, folks. As soon you do this, the startup sound on your Windows 10 will be disabled until you enable it again.

How to Disable Startup Sound on Windows 11

Windows 11 has arrived with tons of new features, but the general settings have largely remained the same. But for disabling the startup sound on your Windows 11, we’ll try a different approach. Instead of trying the system tray, we’ll be using the Settings menu.

To get started, head to the Start menu search bar, type in ‘settings,’ and select the best match. Now, from the settings menu, head to the Personalization section.

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Then select Themes > Sounds. Now, as we did above, from the Sound dialog box, uncheck the ‘Play Windows Startup Sound’. Finally, click on Apply to finalize your changes in the PC. You won't hear the startup sound on the next Windows boot-up.

Disabling Startup Sound on Windows PC

So that’s how you disable the startup sound settings on your Windows PC. Although in the case of Windows 10, the sound settings aren’t enabled by default, it never hurts to know how to do it if there’s a need in the future. The process is quite similar for Windows 11 as well, where you might really need to disable the sound yourself.

Don’t stop here, though. The Window operating system comes with many pre-set settings and configurations—not all of them will be what you’re looking for. So make sure you don’t shy away from customizing your settings.