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:
Click on the Sounds tab and then click on Start Windows in the list box. Go ahead and click on the Browse button and simply choose the replacement WAV file. You can follow this same procedure in Windows 7, but for some reason it doesn’t actually change the startup sound. Windows 7 Startup Sound. Enable Windows Start-up Sound. Next, we need to go to the sound options in Windows 10. In the notification area at the bottom-right corner of your desktop, right-click the speaker icon, then click Sounds. In the Sound window click the Sounds tab, then tick the “Play Windows Start-up sound” box. Your PC should now play a jingle whenever it boots. Opened sound preferences window, and gone to the 'Sounds' tab. Checked the box labeled 'play Windows Startup sound'. Under program events, selected 'Windows logon' and then browse to select the xp logon.wav file in my documents. Upon clicking the test button, it works. I click apply and repeat this for the logoff and unlock sounds.
Run regedit and change:
HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsEventLabelsWindowsLogonExcludeFromCPL from 1 to 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsEventLabelsWindowsLogoffExcludeFromCPL from 1 to 0
HKEY_CURRENT_USERAppEventsEventLabelsWindowsUnlockExcludeFromCPL from 1 to 0
Opened sound preferences window, and gone to the 'Sounds' tab.
Checked the box labeled 'play Windows Startup sound'
Under program events, selected 'Windows logon' and then browse to select the xp logon.wav file in my documents. Upon clicking the test button, it works. I click apply and repeat this for the logoff and unlock sounds.
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.
Delete the files:
'Windows Unlock.wav'
'Windows Startup.wav'
'Windows Shutdown.wav'
'Windows Logon.wav'
'Windows Logoff Sound.wav'
Copy the files (with the same names) into the directory.
Repeat this for all three directories mentioned above.
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
1 Answer
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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Sometimes, when I start my machine, the volume control is set to 100, but it plays relatively quiet. I can fix it by rebooting my machine. Is there a way to restart audio devices, without rebooting the computer?
Thanks for the answer, it helped me too. Something stuck in my sound card buffer and kept looping.I was not able to disable my card in Device Manager, (it wanted to restart Windows 7).But stopping the service helped, (though only that did not solve my problem alone).
So this is what I did:
Then I was bale to disable the audio device in Device Manager.Then I re-enabled it, and
This reset my card and solved my issue.
Steven SparkSteven Spark
Download free template for kompozer for mac. This problem is intensely annoying. I have found a solution that works for me. It isn't permanent as you have to do it each time the speakers stop, but it is better than restarting all the time.
Go to Device ManagerRight click on Sound video and game controllersand click 'scan for hardware changes'
That works for me.
ChelTelChelTel
Check your device manager and go to audio in and outputs. Now check the box show hidden devices (in view) and delete all the devices other than the ones that you have when you didn't show the hidden devices. Reboot.
There must have been some leftover drivers that interfered.
I came looking for a way to restart my Creative X-Fi Titanium driver w/out restarting. Sometimes when I change the Mode, I'll get a buzz out of the right channel that may force me to restart Win7 several times to get rid of.
This fix didn't work for me but as I was unable to Disable the X-Fi in the Device Mgr., which stated it would require a restart when I tried. I'd tried to kill all related software, but maybe there was something I missed, being the massive driver that it is.
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