Boing Boing on MSN

Listen to almost 50 years of startup sounds

The Data Drop releases one interactive visual essay every week, and the latest is a collection of startup sounds from 1977 to ...
Neowin

Microsoft Weekly: Vista startup sound is back, Copilot+ desktop PCs, and new updates

Windows Vista startup sound is back again, Windows 10 and 11 updates, fresh preview builds, and other stories in this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap. This week's news recap is here with Patch ...
ExtremeTech

Windows Vista Sound Returns to Windows 11, Supposedly By Mistake

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build has unexpectedly brought back the Windows Vista startup sound, replacing the usual Windows 11 chime. The best part of this release is that it ...
The Verge

The Windows 95 startup sound is now historic.

The US Library of Congress has added the Windows 95 boot sound to its National Recording Registry (NRR). That means the sound is now part of a list of recordings that are “culturally, historically, or ...
PC Magazine

Some Windows 11 Users Are Hearing an 18-Year-Old Startup Noise

Remember your PCs startup noise in the late noughties? Some Windows 11 users have been treated to a blast from the past with a bug accidentally switching the modern sound effect to the Windows Vista ...
Ars Technica

Need help finding and deleting Windows XP startup sound

I have Windows XP Pro with SP1 and I have a problem removing the startup sound when I go to "Control Panel>Sounds, Speech, and Audio Device>Change the Sound Scheme>Windows Start Windows Sound. When I ...