Windows starting-sounds

The visitcard of windows is the music, which will played when windows is starting.

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The downloads section lets you download startup/boot disks, Preview version of Windows 3.1 and the infamous Microsoft Bob. I have my own mini collection of Windows logos, bootscreens and startup sounds from different version of Windows which I collected overtime. Windows XP - Professional - I have compaq Presario C700 Laptop with XP. The startup and shutdown sounds are not playing. C: WINDOWS Media Windows XP Shutdown.wav and Windows XP Startup.wav files in place and playing.

All single files can be found here:

Tada.wav called this start-up sound, which is just a second.

Interestingly, the other way around WfW uses the sounds for starting and ending as the normal 3.1 versions and NT. It is the shortest sound with less than a second. Original name Xylophon.wav

The Windows 95 startup sound is something special. The first time it was not just a simple signal, but a jingle. The story behind it is something with Brian Eno, on a separate page . Duration: about 6 seconds.

Actually, the login sound. Duration 10 seconds.

The modern interpretation of the Windows 95 Sound. Duration of approximately 7 seconds.

Probably the strangest sound. Created for a beta version, not used in the final product. Matthew A Felton was an composer. Duration 13 seconds.

The Windows 2000 Sound is just 5 seconds.

Windows 98 Startup And Shutdown Sounds Download

Lasts 4 seconds. Unfortunately there is no information about the artist.

Windows Startup And Shutdown Sounds

Length: 4 second. Watch a Making of Video on Channel 9.