History Of Windows Startup Sounds 🔊
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1991’s Multimedia Extensions for Windows 3 introduced a startup sound to Windows. Since then, many sounds - of varying genres & by a variety of composers, such as Brian Eno - have accompanied the startup of different versions of Windows. Watch to learn more!
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95 and xp are probably the most iconic but I love all of them. I think they each fit the overall theme of their respective os perfectly
Nothing can compete with Brian Eno's L E G E N D A R Y theme for 95, even though the 2000/ME theme is my personal favourite. 😁
@@WindowsOnWindows The shutdown sound for 2000 is majestic
0:57 I think Microsoft knew Windows 95 will become nostalgic decades later, hence why they asked Brian to make it as such.
Windows 95 had the best start up sound. Made the entire OS feel like it has a soul.
The Windows 98 startup sound for me will always be my favourite, with Windows XP’s one being a close second. They’re both so timeless.
listen to windows 98 boot sound with headphones, you will love it
It's criminal that Windows 8 had its finished startup sound nixed just because one priveleged person got inconvenienced one time.
Exactly my thoughts. Thanks to him we went a decade without a startup sound.
@@TheKarateKidd Actually the Windows Vista startup sound would remain intact till Windows 10, although in Windows 8 - 10 it's disabled by default.
1:55 Side eye Bill moment. 🤣
The one used between Win2K builds 1983 and 2000.3 is criminally underrated
Ikr the one before it got rerecorded
@@andrive it wasn't 'rerecorded', the one used in those builds is a placeholder demo version they added before finishing off the final version
it's fake
@@angrychu4418 no
@@angrychu4418 it's not the alien war looking one
The Windows startup sounds do make you think of the time period of when the operating systems was released, If you hear them again for sure.
The NT 4.0 startup sound is the best startup sound in the history of the best startup sounds maybe ever.
I was waiting for your comment. 😁 It's so futuristic! 🚀
Up until you get to the Windows NT 5.0 beta startup sound. When you think about it it's kind of like that False Knees "Annoyed Bird" meme but in audio form. You have NT 4.0 doing its thing and then HOLY CRAP HERE COMES NT 5.0.
@@dimples282 that's a fan made sound
I love how the shutdown sound is just the startup sound played in reverse.
@@markusTegelane The NT 5.0 startup sound (czcams.com/video/Z66OiG73ccI/video.html) is not fanmade. It was used from builds 1671 - 1911. If you install any builds from that range, and the sound drivers for it, you will hear that sound. Any builds before 1671 use the NT 4.0 startup. Builds 1946 (the build right after 1911) - 1969 used a sound that is the ending part of the NT 5.0 startup accelerated by 2 or 3 times (czcams.com/video/jNZ-eUuaLno/video.html). Builds 1983 - 2000.3 used a similar version to RTM (czcams.com/video/CMQsSmQxN_w/video.html). Then, build 2020 introduced the exact sound used in the RTM.
my most favorite is the microsoft sound of Windows 95 that Brian Eno composed it using a macintosh and sometimes he didn't own a pc a long ago, it was worth the sound.
Fun fact: The "Bells" sound is reused as a sound effect in powerpoint program known (probably because i didn't used powerpoint in a long time) as "Magic", i am not sure if it is called like that but probably it is.
Never realised that - thanks for sharing!
Nothing touches the 95
Windows 95 Start Up sound carries lot of emotions for 90s kids.❤🎉
Love from India 🇮🇳
"tada" captures windows so well. It's not pretty or elegant but it says "jobs done, marvel at the functionality of our Operating system anyway"
So... you're telling us that we didn't get a dedicated startup sound for WIndows 8 or 10 because it woke up somebody's newborn baby?
...maybe not have your computer in the same room as your baby? I mean, whaaaat?
It used the Vista/7 sound but disabled by default. The proposed 8 sound can still be found in the sounds list.
Yeah very entitled of him
Windows Vista and 7's startup sound is actually in Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 but disabled by default.
FUN FACT: The fake Windows 1.0 startup sound is actually the first notes of the Windows 95 startup sound but high pitched
I love XP startup sound, it wasn't the first SO I had, but I think it's the most nostalgic and wholesome.
I also love the Windws 98 one, which was the fist OS I used and it brings me a lot of memories from my childhood.
Windows 95 is beautiful too and despite not being part of my childhood I feel some connection with it, Brian Eno was a genius.
The Windows 98 startup sounded full and epic and like there's a universe to explore in front of you, Windows 11 sounds light fragile and half completed
Among many things with win8, scrapping the stratup sound was one of the greatest of betrayals.
I think the Windows 2000/ME startupsound is a masterpiece
Windows 11's sound is so good ngl
The one you heard the most on the OS you used more will naturally influence many opinions on which is the best - but to my ears Win 95 is clearly the best piece by a huge margin over everything else here. That's Brian Eno for you.
0:51 The precursor to hyperbolic AI prompts
I find it funny that I’ve heard every one of these startup sounds in their exact era
Windows XP is the most nostalgic for me but 95 is my favorite. It just feels exactly akin to one’s first steps into new world of advanced and optimistic technical achievement. So tranquil and inviting. I just wish I could submerge into that sound like i am walking into a pool.
Matthew also composed NT 5.0 Beta's startup sound. Yes, that one which starts out really loud according to quite a few fella here, and ends up with a really sweet, techie melody.
Some may not know how I know that, but I found the composer's name of that startup sound tagged with the original file while trying out the NT 5.0 Beta's.
My personal favorites are the NT 5.0 Beta 2 startup which literally sounds like going into a Digital Portal. And 2000's Beta build 1983 startup which is the slightly different version of the retail one
My personal ranking of all the startup sounds
1. Windows XP
2. Windows 2000 / Me
3. Windows Vista / 7
4. Widnows 95
5. Windows NT 4.0
6. Windows 98
7. Windows 8 (Scrapped)
8. Windows 3.1
9. Windows 11
The scrapped 8 sound was actually supposed to be a new logon sound, but that was then dropped completely with 8, with the startup sound remaining the Vista one until 11.
2:39 Fanmade image. The actual Windows 2000 boot screen doesn't use such a resolution. Since you have virtual machines, just use it and take a screenshot.
Yeah, it's fan-made. I chose it deliberately in order to fit the widescreen aspect ratio of the video. :)
Windows longhorn would of been the best startup sound if it wasn’t fake
What about the history of Text-to-Speech voices in Windows?
The Windows ME startup sound always reminded me of the beginning of Against All Odds by Phil Collins. I'm surprised no one's made a side-by-side comparison video.
8/10 used the Vista/7 sound, disabled by default.
I still have a Vista preview DVD (I'd have to dig around to find it for build info) I received from Microsoft, and I distinctly remember the sounds being much different when eventually trying the VIsta RC. I don't really remember how, I just remember being bummed how some were completely different or subdued. I should really try to find it and get the sound files out there. As loathed as Vista was, I don't remember ever having much in the way of problems with it; and the video/audio treatment was such a pleasing leap for general usage.
@@cbrauts707 they were mostly XP Sounds
Windows 2000's development cycle was so long, that it changed three sounds before settling on one. For example, Windows 2000 build 1844, contained THX's Deep Note, and some glockenspiel(I presume). Beta 3 builds had sped up variation of it. Builds 1983-2000.3 had the "initial" idea of the sound, which still sounds impressive today. Compare that to the RTM releases, which sound bland. Also a small piece of trivia. Windows Vista's "beta sounds" were not composed by Microsoft. They were composed by Samsung for their sound scheme for Windows XP in 2003.
I love 'em! My favourites are the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 2000/Me startup sounds.
Nice! Just to clarify: the startup was not Fripp's work alone. He did the melody, but Tucker Martine created the rhythm and Steve Ball did the harmonies and final orchestration (it uses a Korg Triton, which is present in other Vista sounds, which are in fact his work and not Fripp's). Ball directed the whole project.
95 comes in first place as my favorite startup sound
98 comes a close second
XP takes the third spot for sure.
Wonderful video history of these sounds which have been part of our lives!
Windows 2000 and Me start up sound is my favorite and also the missing windows longhorn which’s sadly didn’t used in any other version of windows
The alleged Longhorn sounds was never used or even included in any of leaked builds, and was discovered that they came from a Samsung-produced theme for Windows XP.
Nice Video Ever, Huwsky!
Wow. Amazing but not un-coincidental that my two favorite Windows startup themes were written by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.
They both collaborated together.
Windows 7 is so nostalgic
You can also make a video on the shutdown sounds.
Windows 11 still includes Vista's shutdown sound, but it isn't used. If they were going to bring back the shutdown sound, they'd almost certainly make a new one.
I could make one when Windows 12 arrives @@techwithtyler20... Well not only that one, but compose all the sound effects.
1:37 I like to call the sound file: The Microsoft Sound: variant_NT.wav
Windows NT 5.0 , erhly beta 3 builds of 2000 and 2000 beta 3 had thre own startup sounds
Facts:
-There was an unknown startup sound that was created in 2000 (czcams.com/video/iNna_MtP6WM/video.html&fmt=22)
-I don't know why Microsoft reversed the NT 4.0 startup and we get NT 4.0 shutdown
Some info incorrect
1.the Composer of Windows 98 Name is pronouse Ken Kato "Kato" Sound like "Car+told" not Ken "Cato" (Kate+told) (He is Japanese-American) .
2.The Vista start up sound has been use not just windows 7 era.it is much longer until Windows 11 came out.
It just turn off by default (you can enable it through sound panel)
The sound you play is the Logon sound from Windows 8 (This scheme also been use Windows 8.1,10)
The Vista sound is not used by default in 8, 8.1 or 10 - this is what I was referring to in the video. Also, the Windows 8 logon sound *is* the unused startup sound - this is confirmed in Jensen Harris's video on the topic on CZcams.
@@WindowsOnWindows Yes it's true.
One thing worth mention.Start from Windows 8 all the startup sound had been place inside imageres.dll(win8),/Imageres.mum(Win10/11).
One each fresh boot with enabled startup sound setting it will be played.
But if you enable fast startup it will not played as it is kind of Hibernation combination.Not full shutdown progress.
@@AAA839 imageres.dll in Windows Vista - 10 version 1809, imageres.dll.mun in Windows 10 version 1903 onwards and Windows 11.
wish you would have covered the beta startup sounds like the one used in nt 5.0 beta 1
Windows Vista startup should've been a guy screaming 'UFCK!'
Fripp and Eno's are the best.
Is it wrong that I sampled windows device connected and device disconnected
95, xp, and windows 7 are best startup sounds
Windows 7 is Windows Vista
All the conception that went into the Windows 7 startup sound was worth it! Still the best Windows startup!
Did you mean Windows 6 instead of 7? Windows 7 has the startup sound of Vista!
@@Gothpaladinus It's not called Windows 6, it's Windows Vista. I only call it the Windows 7 startup all the time because I grew up with Windows 7.
@@ballinn0430 You should know very well that Vista is only the codename of Windows 6.0, just like Windows 7 is actually Windows 6.1, Windows 8 is actually 6.2 and XP is Windows 5.1.
I really like the windows 11 sound
Man I wish that fake Longhorn sound was real even if it's just for betas
the fake longhorn sound might've been composed by Samsung
@UranusTheWrapper yep. It was in a Samsung theme for XP made in 2003, which also featured sounds that would be re-used in Samsung's Touch Wiz and One UI android skins.
Whats the background music that you use for the narration?
Inspired by Kevin MacLeod. :)
Can’t decide which one I like better: Eno or Fripp, so I choose both
somebody can explain how Windows 98 startup sound created?
Ken Kato (at the time an employee at Microsoft), used a MIDI sequencer and a Korg Wavestation synthesizer.
Windows Vista: "So at this point we decided the world was going to be boring from now on"
Grewt video, though you should really kill the background muzak when showing off the sounds
Interesting! But why would you play background sound through sound (and text for that matter).
You should have cut the background music during the startup sound though!
Actually windows 10's startup is windows 7 startup sound. and there's wi ndows 8.x's logon sound.
You know what add ons these sounds could use? More cowbells!
After Eno's sound, they all pretty much pastiche his basic idea.
2:25 I looked for the Windows 2000 video and it’s not there. Where can I find it?
Microsoft Enthusiast What is your favorite Windows Start-up sound ?
My Personal Favorite has many Choices i pick Windows Nt 4.0
Windows XP
Windows 12
Will likely use 11's sound. Don't expect every new version to make major UI changes--think of it more as a change of name/cadence of Windows 11 feature updates.
Windows 69420
Let's put up the stakes: it is still going to have the startup sound of Windows 6, just disabled by default settings.
Windows 11 sound reeks of minimalism
Inspired by Kevin Macleod reminds me of The Cupballini Song from Doodle Do.
What is The Cupballini Song
How long is Eno's sound in actually? He claims "Three seconds and a third, to be precise."
Windows 8 and 11 startup sounds seem to be based on Windows 95
You forgot the 10X one
I only covered sounds for released versions of Windows in this video - but maybe sounds for unreleased/beta versions could be another vid!
Nice
Win 3.0a MME was my First PC, but it was a B00tlEgg copy. on a 286 w/ a sound card.
The Call LEtters are Probably why I Like WinME as Well lol
0:53 Sexy 💀💀💀💀
Start-up Sounds would have been better without the background music playing. 0/10 for effort
jaja me espere una tesis de 1 horas minimo para este video y sali estafado 😂😂😂😂😂😂
YoU fOrGoT lOnGhOrN!!!11
windows 11's sound took 3 people to make??
Look, I understand the desire to have background music while you talk, but to continue that music to play when you play the windows sounds? Come on man, are you daft?
95 gang 'til I die!
Ditching the startup sound was a big L