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Windows Startup Tone: Set Custom

Tech Crates Jun 14th, 2011 16 Comments

Bored of the default startup tone on your windows OS ? What if you come to know that you can set a custom windows startup tone. Well as the title says, this tute is about setting a custom windows startup tone.

Procedure:

Click Start button, select control panel and then click on Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices.

Now click on Sounds and Audio Devices

A new window opens, Under the Sounds tab head over to Program events.

Scroll down until you find “Start Windows”
Click Browse and select the custom sound that you want windows to play during windows startup.
Click Apply and then OK

Warning: This method is not applicable to Windows Vista. Method tested and implemented in Windows XP.

Setting a custom windows startup tone is simple, isn’t it ?

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Tags: windows OS, windows startup sound, windows startup tone, windows xp

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16 Responses to “Windows Startup Tone: Set Custom”

Amit

Jun 15. 2011

Thanks ,This is really Great to set up tone
- admin
  
  Jun 15. 2011
  
  you’re welcome .. and thanks for stopping by my blog 🙂
TechCrates

Jun 15. 2011

Nice, never knew you could change the default windows tone… This is really great
- admin
  
  Jun 15. 2011
  
  Thanks Sandeep… 🙂
subhash chandra

Jun 15. 2011

coooooool….i kinda boared with my startup tone now..will change it right now..

in vista or windows 7 you can change the startup tone as well but in different way..hope to see a tutorial on it soon..
- admin
  
  Jun 15. 2011
  
  Thanks for your comment :-)… I’ll surely publish a tute about changing windows startup tone in vista and windows 7.
  - Jennah Smith
    
    Jun 24. 2011
    
    hey when are you going to post that article.
    waiting to know that.
    
    Jennah Smith
    - admin
      
      Jun 24. 2011
      
      Very soon…. just be patient !! 🙂
Lakhyajyoti

Jun 15. 2011

Great tutorial.I was completely unaware about it.Thanks for sharing.
- admin
  
  Jun 15. 2011
  
  You’re welcome … and BTW seeing you after a long time here 🙂
Ileane

Jun 27. 2011

Hi, thanks for the instructions. I’m using Windows 7 and I’ll give this one a try soon.
- admin
  
  Jun 27. 2011
  
  You’re welcome and thanks for stopping by and commenting !! Hope to see you again…. 🙂
Carla

Jul 01. 2011

Hei, thanks a lot for the instructions I’ll try it to see how it’ll work.
- admin
  
  Jul 01. 2011
  
  You’re welcome …..
Jenelia

Nov 08. 2011

Hi there,

Thanks for showing the ways to start up the windows tone

Thanks,
Jenelia
harshit

Sep 30. 2013

working… i set the my own recorded tone..
thank you admin for such a nice tip..