I am running the latest version of windows 10 (clean install + update a few days ago), and I am trying to set my startup/shutdown, login/logoff, and unlock sounds to be the windows XP startup and shutdown sound (because I am a nerd, and they make me happy). I have followed a bunch of different tutorials to try to accomplish this, all pretty much saying the same thing. Basically, I have tried the following:
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By default Windows 8.1 will not allow you to change Windows Logon or Windows Logoff sounds.If you go to Desktop view and open Sound by right clicking on Volume icon present in the taskbar and select Sounds you will not find any Windows Logon or Windows Logoff sounds.So if you like to enable them and change the sounds you need to go through registry tweaking. Aug 19, 2013 Sound Scheme for Windows XP/Vista/7. Partially compatible with Windows 8/8.1/10. Unofficial release. Sound files ripped from dlb's Vista Inspirat Ultimate 2 BricoPack. Microsoft Windows Start up Sounds Start up Sounds Windows Start up Sounds Microsoft Windows Microsoft sound clips Check out these Microsoft Windows Start up sounds over the years. It really makes me wonder what might have been the inspiration for these sounds. Explore the collection of startup and shutdown sounds used in various versions of Windows operating systems. This application also has startup and shutdown sounds from unreleased versions of Windows, including Windows NT 5.0 beta and Windows Longhorn! Get great insight and fun facts on various sounds from the 'Did you Know' boxes. You will be shown the following screen, simply check / tick “Play Windows Startup sound“. Click on Apply and OK. This will solve your issue of no startup sound in Windows 10! And with that we have now given the ability of Windows 10 to tell users about the OS starting up.
When starting the machine, the windows 7 (not XP, what I would like) startup sound plays when I get to the login view, and that's it. There is no sound if I sleep and then unlock, nor any sound when I logoff/shutdown.
Next, I tried replacing all of the native windows sound files that I am trying to modify with the XP ones. I found three directories containing the sounds that need to change:
**From my understanding, the second two might be different for different people. A post on tom's hardware told me to search for 'WinSxS' (answers/id-2754414/change-windows-startup-sound.html) (sorry for not hyperlinking; under 10 rep)
For each of these directories, I did the following:1. Right click, properties. Security tab. Advanced button. Change owner to my name. Okay. Okay. Back to the security tab. Edit permissions. Grant administrators full access. Click 'yes' on the popup. Get two more popups:- One 'Windows Security', and one 'Error Applying Security'; First/second popupI click cancel on the second one, triggering this: Third popup
Then Okay, and cancel on both popups.
Again, exactly the same result as above; only sound out of turning on/off my computer and logging out/in and unlocking is the windows 7 startup sound when the login screen is reached.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Eben CollinsEben Collins
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You have probably already heard this one before, but Windows has unfortunately removed the logon/logoff sounds because if they had kept them, they would have had to rewrite the entire PlaySound API, and for 'Performance reasons'.
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