After for almost 1 year, All windows startup and shutdown sounds version 3 is finally out :)
This video added a lot of changes from Version 2
Changes from Version 2:
1.Fixed some bugs
2.Removed all the startup sound from all Windows Server version starting from Windows Server 2008 to 2019 due to the startup sound is unplayable in Server version
3.Added plus! theme sounds
4.added intro sounds and outro music
5.Added Windows 11 builds and latest Windows 11 and Windows server preview sounds
Timeline :
0:00 intro
0:02 Windows 1.0
0:12 Windows 2.0
0:18 Windows 3.0
0:42 Windows 3.1
1:28 Windows NT 3.1
1:48 Windows NT 3.5
2:02 windows NT 3.51
2:12 Windows 95 (codename Chicago)
3:58 Windows 95 Plus!
5:29 Windows Plus! For kids
7:11 Windows Nashville (Cancelled)
7:20 Windows NT 4.0
10:19 Windows NT 4.0 resource kit
12:46 Windows 98 (codename Memphis)
14:24 Windows 98 Plus!
22:31 Windows 2000 (codename NT 5.0)
26:56 Windows Neptune (Cancelled)
27:06 Windows ME
28:12 Windows XP (codename Whistler)
31:48 Windows XP Plus!
32:27 Windows Server 2003 (codename Whistler Server)
34:48 Windows Home Server (based on Windows Server 2003 R2)
34:59 Windows Vista (codename Longhorn)
37:19 Windows Server 2008 (codename Longhorn Server)
38:43 Windows 7
39:44 Windows Server 2008 R2,Windows Home Server 2011,Windows Small Business Server 2011
40:15 Windows 8,Windows RT
42:26 Windows 8.1,Windows RT 8.1
43:16 Windows Server 2012,Windows Server 2012 R2
44:15 Windows 10
46:49 Windows Server 2016
48:33 Windows Server 2019
48:57 Windows 10X (Cancelled)
49:01 Windows Server 2022
49:29 Windows 11(original release)
50:28 Windows 11 Nickel (current in development)
51:16 Windows Server Copper (current in development)
52:32 Outro
P.S , before dislike this video , please notes:
All the Windows Startup and Shutdown sounds in this video are 99.999% correct and there are the important point about the start up and shutdown sounds.PLEASE READ THE DECRIPTION BEFORE COMMENTING.IF YOU STILL DO NOT BELIEVE ME, TRY MORE WINDOWS BUILDS BY YOURSELF AND YOU WILL GET THE SAME RESULT AS ME.
1.Windows do not have sounds before windows 3.0 MME.
2.Windows 3.0 MME uses bell.wav as startup sound and water.wav as shutdown sound.
3.Windows NT 5.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2 used windows NT 4.0 as shutdown sounds instead of windows 2000 beta 3 build 1946-1969 startup sound. The long startup sound is introduced in build 1671 and used until build 1911. Before that , Windows NT 5.0 used Windows NT 4.0 startup and shutdown sounds.
(Due to the copyright strike,I used this remaked version of Windows NT 5.0 startup sound instead :
https://youtu.be/WmATesP6EXg , the original one is here :
https://youtu.be/zES0Nyn3A1A )
4.Windows Whistler used 2000 sounds until build 2485(2481 does have windows xp sounds but they still use 2000 sounds as default).
5.Windows Server 2003 in all country (include UK) used windows xp sounds.The fake windows UK startup sounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3nSs_sZH8I is came from the windows server 2003 promotional animation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44WeDtVOrns (cut by TheCanadianToast).It is very ridiculous for Microsoft to produce a special sounds for UK for server use because produce sounds can cost million dollars and even Microsoft cannot afford.
6.The windows longhorn sounds that widespread believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbrsTWKZ9Gg&t=4s is fake and never used in any windows longhorn builds. The origin of the sound theme is actually came from an official Samsung desktop theme for Windows XP. Windows longhorn used windows XP sounds until 5840.16384(while later builds used Windows Vista RTM Logoff sound as the shutdown sound.)
7.Windows 8,8.1,10 used windows 7/vista startup sounds and no shutdown sounds because the "exit windows" was removed since windows 8.
how to enable it:
- Go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Sound and click Sounds.
- Check the "Play Windows Startup Sound"
- Click OK and close the window
- Go to Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options, in the left sidebar, click
"Choose what the power button do"
- Click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable", and uncheck "Turn on fast
startup(recommended)" and click OK then close Control Panel
For more: watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6cV_2CogrA&t=1s
Please be minded: Windows Logon sound is not equal to the startup sound.They are just 2 different concept.
8. Starting from Windows Server 2008, the startup sound of the Windows Server version is unplayable due to some issues. Even though you enabled the startup sound in control panel, it won't play it out.
9.Windows 10X , which the development cancelled in May 2021 , featured a new startup sound , which uses the bootup.wav as startup sound.
Images are from BetaWiki and other sources.
Please do not comment that my Windows NT 5.0 , Windows Whistler , Windows Server 2003 , Longhorn , 8 , 8.1 , 10 used wrong sounds.
This isn’t a rickroll: https://bit.ly/34SGRYD
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