Comments on: Change Windows startup and shutdown sounds

By: wguru

wguru — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:18:54 +0000

Maybe it’s one (or both) of the (ShutdownMajorThreshold_Sec) values seen here (on vista x86’s)…

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Diagnostics\Performance\Shutdown

I could backup registry, try out changing the values, but I avoid potentially convoluting the registry.

By: wguru

wguru — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:09:00 +0000

But why I came here wa to try and find a post I once saw that addresses where in the registry one goes to tweak it so when at shutdowns, we don’t need to look at the (vista x86’s) opague/see thru window that tells us Windows is shutting down (and needlessly mentions ‘explorer’ is still running).

That annoyance is simply due to wherever ‘we’ change the shutdown wav to one that’s longer playing than the default one, and of course, windows ‘needs’ to tell us that explorer is still running (past the default time allowed for stock shutdown wav play time).

So I’m still looking for the reg key I need to change mine from something like a hexidecimal value of ‘0×000000060′ to, I’m guessing something like ‘0×000001200′ (for my some 20 secs wav).

Of course then, if ever any other programs are running at shutdown, I’duh not be then seeing that prompt telling me of a running program, but duh, I don’t care as I can always go to the event viewer and check that.

By: wguru

wguru — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:58:38 +0000

I error’d saying ‘control>sound’ for ‘vista & xp’ because for xp, users can simply go direct to the media folder and swap any wav w/your own desired one.

I suppose there (for xp x86’s), it’s best to do it by going again to control panel>’sounds and audio devices’, then to sounds tab, etc.

By: wguru

wguru — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:44:39 +0000

These posts seem generically type cast for Windows as opposed to vista or xp. No biggy, but those that post should mention what system we’re dealing with (x86&64 means something as well.

As for “Windows Startup Sound.wav” (seen in vista & xp Windows/Media folders (at least for x86 systems), the tweaks are correctly referred to and moreover this forum’s post, correctly points users to control panel>sounds, but should disclose a seemingly necessary steps, those being at the Sound properties window, users go to the “sound” tab, then un-tick ‘play startup sound’ (not to worry it re-ticks itself after making changes), only thereafter use the browse button and make your changes, then click apply and re-boot.

One added note is that regardless that Windows oddly also calls ’startup sound’ and ’shutdown sound’ as ‘LogOn’ and LogOff’ sounds, when in all practicality once the ‘Startup & Shutdown’ files have been modified, it seems that at least for the Startup Sound (for vista x86) users must go the ’sound tab’ route (then choosing “LogOn” for the ‘Startup’ sound)).

And unlike ’startup sound’, for ’shutdown sound’, to get it to work (again at least for vista x86’s), all one really needs to do is swap out the original media folder’s “Windows Shutdown Sound.wav”).

happ-e-trails to all

By: crack

crack — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:13:13 +0000

do any of you know how to change the windows shutdown sound length, so that it plays for longer? i swapped the default sound for another sound, but I want it to play for longer. How do you change the sound length so that it plays for longer? There has to be a way, I have a feeling it has something to do with the registry…you can do amazing things to your computer by tweaking your registry,

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By: einie1985

einie1985 — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:01:38 +0000

Hi! I want to change my startup sound to a normal song. But when I change this mp3-file into wav, it takes over 15mb! and it’s only 25 seconds long… Why?

Do you know a program that can change format (to wav) without making the file SO big?

Hope that you can help me!

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By: akishore

akishore — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:50:25 +0000

Kitkat – hahahah Well then you definitely don’t need to do this!

By: Techblissonline dot com

Techblissonline dot com — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:37:15 +0000

yes I htoo have my speakers off by default

By: Kitkat

Kitkat — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:48:34 +0000

I have my speaker off anyway.

By: akishore

akishore — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:10:46 +0000

Siddharth, I’m glad you like this way better! I myself have not used the Control Panel method either!

Steve, yeah it’s only for those people who love to customize their Windows machines.

Haris, I have some crazy song on my computer that scares the crap out of my wife whenever the computer starts up! hahaha

By: Haris

Haris — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:06:25 +0000

Thanks buddy! Never thought about that before. Now, I’ll put a clip of my fav song

By: Steve Yu

Steve Yu — Wed, 14 May 2008 20:05:54 +0000

Never bother about that sounds. Anyway, thanks for sharing.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:30:16 +0000

May be this is not a safer way but I like this one more Akshiore
I hav tried many a time with control panel applet but nothing happens but about a month b4 when I replaced the files it worked gr8
Now after formatting I am back to default bcoz my speakers are usually off :Mrgreen:

By: akishore

akishore — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:13:12 +0000

Shitu, Marty – I’ve been doing things like this for so long that I forgot you can do it that way also! Yes that is definitely the safer way to change Windows sounds and I’ll update my post with the relevant steps for doing it that way! Thanks for pointing this out guys.

Colin, I am in the CST time zone, so one hour off.