Next, on the Sound window, go to the ‘Sounds’ tab under the ‘Program Events’ section you will see a check box called ‘Play Windows Startup Sound’. On the Hardware and Sound screen, click ‘Sound’. Open the Control Panel and click ‘Hardware and Sound’. It’s not different now you can turn off the startup sound in Windows 10 via the default sound settings. It would be much easier to just turn it Off. Windows has had a way to do this since Windows XP, possibly even before that. Of course, both require you to proactively do something to counter it. One way to quite this sound is to plug headphones into your system or mute it when you shut it down. They do so with a short chime that, if it’s the middle of the night, can wake everyone in the house. Operating Systems like to announce when they have just been booted.