The music track featured when Microsoft Windows XP is used for the first time. The audio file can be found on all Windows XP editions at: C:\Windows\system32\oobe\images\title.wma
When you spend all that time upgrading a tower for a friend only to NOT hear this at the end and know already that the driver isn't automatically found AND it's not the year yet where you know what the file path to this is. TFW... :(
R.I.P. Stan LePard, the true composer behind this sweet melody. He also composed music for Destiny, Halo Reach, Halo 3 ODST, Guild Wars 2, Fable 2, Project Gotham Racing etc., truly a huge loss to mankind.
@@bylectricagarmoniya damn! 20 years ! i was 13 years old pervert boy who loved basketball and playing video games now i`m 35 and married with 2 children :) time flies boys always move in direct way that life chose for you
Take a seat to tell you how me and you mother ment. kid: so how does do with xp? sans 2345: by dating app RU-vid. Kid: i thought youtube had content. Sans 2345: wow that inside edition video is super old.
Sans2345: Let me tell you a great story, I've spent hours and hours spending my mom's money to buy pixels and game passes from games back in the old days. One day, while I was scrolling through how to obtain free robux, I saw this video " Windows XP music boot ". I decided to give it a listen, and actually it was pretty cool..
and then you have press the green button, the untouched media center promotion like there's not even a wiki article but there is a google knowledge panel, wtf
the microsoft engineer that killed it made a video about it. His macbook (yep, he had a mac) made a BONG sound that would wake up his newborn at night, so he didnt want to turn it on to check something late at night. He then thought that the pc had evolved from a desktop "computer room" device, to be used at night, in school, on the train, etc - so it was killed in windows 8. Later he wanted to add it back as an option, but the team responsible for the bootup time had totally killed/deleted the booting sound part of code and said "no". This was at a time were mobile phones, tablets, and ultrabook type computers were doing everything they could to cut boot times, windows was no different. So, it's dead.
I love how futuristic this song sounds and it sure was a nice experience to have this playing after installing Windows (if you were lucky to have the sounds working). These days it's nothing, just privacy bollocks all over the place with a bazillion of Accept buttons
When XP released, I thonk thats the future :) But I'm not sure this music only for xp, maybe older, Win98? Well, XP make me nostalgic, my first GAMER PC, a normal one can run. Before I have 3.1, 95, 98, after all of these the difference very big.
My Father Used Windows 95 At Office In 2006 When I Was Not Born Before 2008 And Windows XP The OS Was Installed New First Time 2008 Computer Was Buy In My Home It Would Run XP From 2009 To 2015.
Up to a point I had always installed XP on machines where XP didn't have native driver support for whatever sound card/chip was installed (meaning I wouldn't get to hear this during the setup phase). Then one day, while working for a small managed service provider (around 2005) and setting up a customer laptop (it was very early morning weekend and I was only one in office) I was re-installing XP pro on a newer Dell. After initiating the install, I sort of dozed off while lying on the floor and was awakened by this music (I'd never heard it before) Being a gen X audiophile familiar with very large range of music (and a bit of a stoner) I was immediately struck by it and how "chill" it was. 80s electronic composers like Jan Hammer and Vangelis sprung to mind. I am reminded that another composer/producer did music for Microsoft a few years before. Brian Eno composed the Windows Welcome sound for both Windows 95 and Windows NT4. Anyway, RIP to Stan Lepard for this quite alluring little ditty.
Koala Kaitlyn i know, even though i was born in 2002. its so iconic. windows xp was the first os that i ever got to grasp. i usually just used paint. nothing else.
I still have my Windows XP. Even this far into the XPocalypse, I still take good care of it. It's just so nostalgic to me, as that was the computer that I made frame by frame animations with Open Paint and Movie Maker when I was eight!
My first Windows OS was 98, I still remember the startup sounds and such. And when I finally got Windows XP and heard this song, I was blown away. But I was about 10 or something when I started using XP. There was also Microsoft Sam in this, and the Office Assistant.
@@jamiedoesstuff4877 joined the military or national guard, police or got a job, watch RU-vid videos and don't upload, forgot the password and made a new account or died. Edit: His about section is pure gold.
+Jingle Cam I would. What microsoft should do is have a custom install option for windows 10 that allows you to install things like XP's games, Bliss, the Luna theme, old icons, and such the like.
I remember hearing this tune for the first time - I'd spent months saving up nearly £2k for a top of the line Dell and when I heard this through the Harmon Kardon speakers, the bass line pounding through the subwoofer, I felt so happy!
This song is actually really relaxing.. but wait. THAT'S where this song came from? I've been missing out on it for the last 12 years. the sound didn't work on my PC UNTIL after the installation. I've only heard this on like, 2005-2006 RU-vid videos but I never knew where its origins.
If Windows already had the right drivers for your sound card without downloading them, you would hear it right after installing the OS. If the drivers weren't included then yea you'd never hear it. Did not matter if the PC was bought with XP ready to go or if you updated an older computer. Just needed to be sound drivers already on the hard drive by first boot to work.
I once had to image about 20 Compaq P4 PCs with XP Pro so I decided to use Sysprep to make my life easier. Because I had all of the drivers in the install image, this played out in the workshop on each PC I was doing, and the company director came in to ask me what the music was because he liked it. He had never heard it because he never installed XP on a system which had a working sound card out of the box. Later on, he sent me a link to the Cisco PBX hold music!
Same here, in my later childhood my main PC was a Vista-licensed machine that I ended up installing XP on, and of course because it was a newer PC, the sound drivers were never installed automatically after reinstalling the OS.
I can't say I've ever seen an installation of Windows XP that came with working sound drivers. I did plug in a USB soundcard and hear this once though. XP will be missed.
I know how you feel. The nostalgia behind it was amazing for all of us. Now I think the new logo is pretty cool don't get me wrong but I'll agree that unlike what was used when XP came out this recent logo change won't be anything we will remember. Seems like all the good stuff came when we were just little tater tots
I remember staying up till like 1 A.M. in the morning on my grandma's eMachines PC playing mario flash games back in 2008 when I was 6 years old. Yes, my memory is that good.
cdgngj11 (OLD) The first computer I remember was a eMachines running Windows 98. We upgraded to XP in 2006. Since then we’ve used Vista and 7. We have different computers since then, We've used the same computer for Vista and 7.
This makes me sad because this brings so many memories when we had Windows XP I used to use it all the time it was such a great machine we had a desktop and a laptop with Windows XP in fact are neighbour still has the desktop but recently it broke the motherboard Brock on it but the laptop we sold it on eBay years ago but now we have macs now but I think the best Windows of all time is Windows XP RIP my good friend you will be missed 😢
Most proactive OS in the World EVER !!! Since Windows 95 until now (Win 8.1) Ya'll can say whatever you want but XP ruled from 2000 - 2010 with a full domination in the entire world. Remember this song used to play over and over on my good ole PC tower. RIP Win XP ;((
This is so NOSTALGIC i remember i had windows xp computer as kid and every night i will put this song on repeat and i will sleep while listening that nostalgic music
Wait... Once I made a music and the base melody is very similar to this and I wasn't even born when Win XP was created... I found out this music existed literally today...
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Aww my recently obtained Dell Latitude c600 was singing this to me when I was on the end of the installation process and I didn't notice until I turned off both my fans I happily enjoyed the remainder of it knowing it was the only time I would ever hear it without having to go to RU-vid
What a nostalgic experience! I heard this music a lot because I filled the family computer with tons of viruses and my parents frequently called various IT professionals to reinstall the custom built, Pentium 4-based PC which was my very first experience with computing. I used to browse Wikipedia and Cartoon Network's website on this computer in the mid-2000s as a little kid. I miss you, Windows XP!
Great music, I used to have a Windows XP computer, until we sold it in a yard sale back in the summer of 2006... and we brought a Windows Vista computer in early 2007... R.I.P. Windows XP :( 2001 - 2014
7/29/15 upgrading to Windows 10 everytime I install upgrade or dual boot a version of Windows I always use this song. Goodbye Windows XP I'll miss you my buddy at least I still have Windows Vista
Wow, I still remember installing XP for the first time (using the Devil's Own key of course) and being amazed at how well everything was set up automatically.
I will never forget Windows XP my grandma had it in our office and it was the first computer I ever used it was how I learned to use a computer, it was so easy to use I and I was young, now it’s gone she got rid of it a couple of years ago I never heard the welcome music but I will never forget this operating system, it holds a special place in my heart and encouraged me to become a computer programmer all from this operating system that I loved called Windows XP.
I used to sit with the speakers to both ears and jam this song all night when I first moved to the southwest of Houston...pure nostalgia everytime I listen to it
