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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@MondySpartan Год назад

0:57 I think Microsoft knew Windows 95 will become nostalgic decades later, hence why they asked Brian to make it as such.

@digitaldiablo1653 Месяц назад

Windows 95 had the best start up sound. Made the entire OS feel like it has a soul.

@PrKo Год назад

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

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

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. 😁

@BillybobJoelikestrains Год назад

@@WindowsOnWindows The shutdown sound for 2000 is majestic

@PhirePhlame Год назад

It's criminal that Windows 8 had its finished startup sound nixed just because one priveleged person got inconvenienced one time.

@TheKarateKidd Год назад

Exactly my thoughts. Thanks to him we went a decade without a startup sound.

@ThatRandomToast Год назад

@@TheKarateKidd Actually the Windows Vista startup sound would remain intact till Windows 10, although in Windows 8 - 10 it's disabled by default.

@JackStavris Год назад

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.

@yyviny Год назад

listen to windows 98 boot sound with headphones, you will love it

@wthrz Год назад

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?

@techwithtyler20 Год назад

It used the Vista/7 sound but disabled by default. The proposed 8 sound can still be found in the sounds list.

@abd12459 Год назад

Yeah very entitled of him

@SkyeWeeb Год назад

The one used between Win2K builds 1983 and 2000.3 is criminally underrated

@andrive Год назад

Ikr the one before it got rerecorded

@imnotshub Год назад

@@andrive it wasn't 'rerecorded', the one used in those builds is a placeholder demo version they added before finishing off the final version

@angrychu4418 Год назад

it's fake

@KoenDoesThings Год назад

@@angrychu4418 no

@avegee24tv 11 месяцев назад

@@angrychu4418 it's not the alien war looking one

@PhilipMurphyExtra Год назад

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.

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

1:55 Side eye Bill moment. 🤣

@v0idpointer Год назад

The NT 4.0 startup sound is the best startup sound in the history of the best startup sounds maybe ever.

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

I was waiting for your comment. 😁 It's so futuristic! 🚀

@dimples282 Год назад

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.

@markusTegelane Год назад

@@dimples282 that's a fan made sound

@kaiuweb974 Год назад

I love how the shutdown sound is just the startup sound played in reverse.

@scienceguy4583 Год назад

@@markusTegelane The NT 5.0 startup sound (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z66OiG73ccI.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 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jNZ-eUuaLno.html). Builds 1983 - 2000.3 used a similar version to RTM (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CMQsSmQxN_w.html). Then, build 2020 introduced the exact sound used in the RTM.

@Windows_NT_Dude Год назад

Windows Vista and 7's startup sound is actually in Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 but disabled by default.

@turbostatic1 Год назад

Nothing touches the 95

@andresbravo2003 Год назад

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.

@_wouter52 Год назад

I think the Windows 2000/ME startupsound is a masterpiece

@TheStOne1 5 месяцев назад

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.

@lejacobofficial Год назад

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.

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

Never realised that - thanks for sharing!

@PBPedroOfficial Год назад

FUN FACT: The fake Windows 1.0 startup sound is actually the first notes of the Windows 95 startup sound but high pitched

@winelectronic101 Год назад

What about the history of Text-to-Speech voices in Windows?

@OOOODD Год назад

Windows longhorn would of been the best startup sound if it wasn’t fake

@illitero Год назад

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.

@robloxhighlights1004 Год назад

@@cbrauts707 they were mostly XP Sounds

@Mickelraven Год назад

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

@techwithtyler20 Год назад

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.

@CaptainJZH 6 месяцев назад

Windows 11's sound is so good ngl

@Bubbles12320 6 месяцев назад

Windows 95 Start Up sound carries lot of emotions for 90s kids.❤🎉 Love from India 🇮🇳

@techwithtyler20 Год назад

8/10 used the Vista/7 sound, disabled by default.

@ThatRandomToast Год назад

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.

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

Yeah, it's fan-made. I chose it deliberately in order to fit the widescreen aspect ratio of the video. :)

@LaukkuPaukku Год назад

0:51 The precursor to hyperbolic AI prompts

@LONEWLF Год назад

Is it wrong that I sampled windows device connected and device disconnected

@CS_Uravity_PRO Год назад

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

@DanielWillen 8 месяцев назад

"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"

@pb-doslegacy2020 Год назад

Facts: -There was an unknown startup sound that was created in 2000 (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iNna_MtP6WM.html&fmt=22) -I don't know why Microsoft reversed the NT 4.0 startup and we get NT 4.0 shutdown

@BePostiveStayHydrated Год назад

95, xp, and windows 7 are best startup sounds

@TheStOne1 5 месяцев назад

Windows 7 is Windows Vista

@robmausser Год назад

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?

@doddyvanstraaten2774 10 месяцев назад

Start-up Sounds would have been better without the background music playing. 0/10 for effort

@tracker2010plays1 Год назад

wish you would have covered the beta startup sounds like the one used in nt 5.0 beta 1

@asrieldashie Год назад

Man I wish that fake Longhorn sound was real even if it's just for betas

@UranusTheWrapper Год назад

the fake longhorn sound might've been composed by Samsung

@PEPSIMaxMusic 11 месяцев назад

@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.

@ItsHonski Год назад

Whats the background music that you use for the narration?

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

Inspired by Kevin MacLeod. :)

@safeaccount5575 Год назад

somebody can explain how Windows 98 startup sound created?

@rabarebra 9 месяцев назад

Ken Kato (at the time an employee at Microsoft), used a MIDI sequencer and a Korg Wavestation synthesizer.

@inqmusician2 Год назад

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.

@CoolJRT2009 5 месяцев назад

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

@yoshimitsu1977 10 месяцев назад

You should have cut the background music during the startup sound though!

@EdwinMaarleveld 11 месяцев назад

Interesting! But why would you play background sound through sound (and text for that matter).

@dogbadger 7 месяцев назад

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.

@AAA839 Год назад

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)

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

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 RU-vid.

@AAA839 Год назад

@@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.

@ThatRandomToast Год назад

@@AAA839 imageres.dll in Windows Vista - 10 version 1809, imageres.dll.mun in Windows 10 version 1903 onwards and Windows 11.

@Galaxy.Windows Год назад

Windows NT 5.0 , erhly beta 3 builds of 2000 and 2000 beta 3 had thre own startup sounds

@plitser9880 9 дней назад

Robert Fripp is a surprising and elegant choice. I didn't know he composed that sound!

@hibbiea8841 Год назад

Nice Video Ever, Huwsky!

@DannoTechTips 2 месяца назад

1:37 I like to call the sound file: The Microsoft Sound: variant_NT.wav

@jennycotan7080 5 месяцев назад

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.

@wardengamer374 Год назад

You can also make a video on the shutdown sounds.

@techwithtyler20 Год назад

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.

@l.c.habibi2339 10 месяцев назад

I could make one when Windows 12 arrives @@techwithtyler20... Well not only that one, but compose all the sound effects.

@Rizimar Год назад

Grewt video, though you should really kill the background muzak when showing off the sounds

@vonBottorff 28 дней назад

After Eno's sound, they all pretty much pastiche his basic idea.

@Plazman 3 месяца назад

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.

@masterlink2319 Месяц назад

Among many things with win8, scrapping the stratup sound was one of the greatest of betrayals.

@ElectricHouseProductions 10 месяцев назад

I find it funny that I’ve heard every one of these startup sounds in their exact era

@gettyfanatic8860 5 месяцев назад

2:25 I looked for the Windows 2000 video and it’s not there. Where can I find it?

@MotownBatman 4 месяца назад

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

@MiamiMarkYT 2 месяца назад

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.

@CursedLemon 5 месяцев назад

Windows Vista: "So at this point we decided the world was going to be boring from now on"

@BMW_e69 Год назад

Actually windows 10's startup is windows 7 startup sound. and there's wi ndows 8.x's logon sound.

@pugdragon Год назад

You know what add ons these sounds could use? More cowbells!

@PaulinaAngel 3 месяца назад

Can’t decide which one I like better: Eno or Fripp, so I choose both

@williamkiefer1792 4 месяца назад

How long is Eno's sound in actually? He claims "Three seconds and a third, to be precise."

@dobidipdap 6 месяцев назад

Microsoft Enthusiast What is your favorite Windows Start-up sound ?

@dobidipdap 6 месяцев назад

My Personal Favorite has many Choices i pick Windows Nt 4.0

@jrz.zrj1461 4 месяца назад

Windows XP

@LONEWLF Год назад

Windows 12

@techwithtyler20 Год назад

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.

@cvk4488 Год назад

Windows 69420

@Gothpaladinus 8 месяцев назад

Let's put up the stakes: it is still going to have the startup sound of Windows 6, just disabled by default settings.

@batmandcgamer7093 11 месяцев назад

0:53 Sexy 💀💀💀💀

@CubeAnimator 4 месяца назад

95 comes in first place as my favorite startup sound 98 comes a close second XP takes the third spot for sure.

@hibbiea8841 Год назад

Inspired by Kevin Macleod reminds me of The Cupballini Song from Doodle Do. What is The Cupballini Song

@sclitchmusic 9 месяцев назад

Windows 7 is so nostalgic

@AugustoCurva 4 месяца назад

jaja me espere una tesis de 1 horas minimo para este video y sali estafado 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@antmoundsock1122 Месяц назад

I really like the windows 11 sound

@spatrick1277 7 месяцев назад

Wow. Amazing but not un-coincidental that my two favorite Windows startup themes were written by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.

@AndRewUK24 2 месяца назад

They both collaborated together.

@nsny24 10 месяцев назад

Windows Vista startup should've been a guy screaming 'UFCK!'

@HalloikbenJim 2 месяца назад

Fripp and Eno's are the best.

@matthewpaulargall9102 8 месяцев назад

I love 'em! My favourites are the Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows 2000/Me startup sounds.

@musiclove6237 10 месяцев назад

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.

@GabeNwagbala 10 месяцев назад

Nice

@ResetOnYoutube 10 месяцев назад

YoU fOrGoT lOnGhOrN!!!11

@jukfiuutech Год назад

You forgot the 10X one

@WindowsOnWindows Год назад

I only covered sounds for released versions of Windows in this video - but maybe sounds for unreleased/beta versions could be another vid!

@doublebanana-de3dt 7 месяцев назад

Wonderful video history of these sounds which have been part of our lives!

@ahmadzahid266 Год назад

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

@ThatRandomToast Год назад

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.

@Rune. Год назад

windows 11's sound took 3 people to make??

@fouzanium Год назад

Windows 8 and 11 startup sounds seem to be based on Windows 95

@flflflflflfl Год назад

95 gang 'til I die!

@ballinn0430 Год назад

All the conception that went into the Windows 7 startup sound was worth it! Still the best Windows startup!

@Gothpaladinus 8 месяцев назад

Did you mean Windows 6 instead of 7? Windows 7 has the startup sound of Vista!

@ballinn0430 8 месяцев назад

@@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.

@Gothpaladinus 8 месяцев назад

@@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.