RID Startup Jingle

[COOLCOMPUTERGUY]

Hi all you people in pc land.

:wacko:I'm sick of the startup jingle that sounds like the end of a Jif brand peanut butter tv comercial. Of course I can disable it by deselecting the play startup sound checkbox but does any one know where I can find the .wav becouse I looked in windws\media and found a windows startup.wav but it didn't sound anything like the actual startup song.

[Tripredacus]

Yes there are actually 2 start up sounds, even XP was like this, or at least mine is. I was also unsuccessful to find the "other" startup sound. Lucky for you then, when you boot up it only plays the one sound, on my computer, it plays both!

[COOLCOMPUTERGUY]

I still didn't find the startup song file but I found the registry section for sound shemes:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes

so I can merge a sound scheme but this won't get rid of the startup song so I found this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Authentication\LogonUI\BootAnimation]

"DisableStartupSound"=dword:00000001

Startup song terminated.

Edited December 11, 2008 by COOLCOMPUTERGUY

[Andromeda43]

In every version of Windows, there has always been an easy way to change the sounds that play on your PC, to anything you wish.

The app is in your XP Control Panel, under "Sounds and Audio Devices".

When setting up a new PC with Windows, I normally just delete all the g'zillion .wav files that M$ puts in the media folder and replace them with about a dozen from my own Utilities CD.

Then I go thru the little process of assigning the proper sound to just a few Windows operations, like Startup and Shutdown.

I grabbed the intro sound off of a M$ upgrade disk for my Startup sound. It's really quite GRAND!

For my email acknowledgment sound (in Outlook Express) is use a female voice saying "You've got mail" that I gleaned from a PC running "Compuserve".

All in all, it's pretty simple to set up the sounds you like, on your Windows PC.

Happy Holidays Mates!

Andromeda

Edited December 12, 2008 by Andromeda43

[Tripredacus]

Right well the "2nd" startup sound can't be assigned (or unassigned) from the Sound cpl, unless you chose the No Sounds scheme.

[COOLCOMPUTERGUY]

When you say "the seconed startup sound" are you talking about the the one below the scroll box with the square check box that says "Play Windows Startup Sound" ?

[COOLCOMPUTERGUY]

Or was it the windows logon sound in the scroll box ?