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Windows starting-sounds

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

All single files can be found here:

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

The Shutdown Sound: Xylophon.wav

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

Shutdown Sound tada.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.

Nothing per default, but when installing all audio files in setup and load the default sound scheme you hear the shutdown sound tada.wav.

Actually, the login sound. Duration 10 seconds.

The log off Sound.

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

Nothing per default, but when installing all audio files in setup and load the default sound scheme you hear the logoff sound.

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.

No sound per default. With ME you have to load the non-default `Windows-default´ sound scheme. In Win 2000 the file is present, but not used in the default scheme.

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

The Logoff sound.

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

The Logoff sound.

Length: 4 second.

The Logoff sound.