Windows Startup and Shutdown Sounds (Windows 1.0 - Windows Server 2025) (Clients & Servers)

If there's something wrong in this video, please let me know. I'll fix it in the next version!

Please read this before commenting!
All the startup and shutdown sounds in this video are almost 100% correct.
1. Windows does not have any sounds before Windows 3.0 MME
2. Windows NT Beta 1 and Beta 2 does not use Windows 2000 Beta 3 Builds 1946 - 1969 startup sound as shutdown sound.
3. Windows Millenium uses 98 sounds as it's based on 98.
4. Windows Whistler used 2000 sounds until build 2485. (Build 2481 introduced XP sounds but still have 2000 sounds as default) The fake Windows Whistler startup uses Windows 98 shutdown sound, Windows 2000 Builds 1983 - 2000 startup sound, and level up sound from Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection. Meanwhile the shutdown sound uses sound from BeOS.
5. All versions of Windows Server 2003 used Windows XP sounds. The supposed "UK Startup" comes from an advertisement for Windows Server 2003, coincidentally aired in the UK.
6. The fake Windows Longhorn sounds came from Samsung desktop theme for Windows XP. Windows Longhorn used Windows XP sounds until build 5840.16384.
7. Starting from Windows Server 2008, the startup sound of the Windows Server version is unplayable.
8. Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 used Windows Vista startup sound. They do not use the shutdown sound.
9. Windows Server 2025 were announced on Tech Community Hub by Microsoft on January 26, 2024.

Chapters:
Intro 0:00
Windows 1.0 0:06
Windows 2.0 0:13
Windows 2.1 0:16
Windows 3.0 0:18
Windows 3.1 0:27
Windows NT 3.1 0:48
Windows NT 3.5 1:04
Windows NT 3.51 1:14
Windows 95 1:22
Windows 95 Plus! 2:36
Windows 95 Plus! For Kids 3:42
Windows Nashville (Cancelled) 5:24
Windows NT 4.0 5:33
Windows NT 4.0 Resource Kit 9:48
Windows 98 11:20
Windows 98 Plus! 12:50
Windows 2000 18:53
Windows Neptune (Cancelled) 24:12
Windows ME 24:23
Windows XP 26:54
Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs 29:30
Windows XP Plus! 29:38
Windows Server 2003 30:08
Windows Vista 31:59
Windows Home Server 33:41
Windows Server 2008 33:58
Windows 7 35:12
Windows Server 2008 R2 35:52
Windows Embedded Standard 36:09
Windows Embedded POSready 2009 36:17
Windows Thin PC 36:26
Windows Small Business Server 2011 36:31
Windows Home Server 36:37
Windows Embedded Standard 7 36:43
Windows Embedded POSready 7 36:48
Windows 8 & Windows RT 36:54
Windows Server 2012 38:59
Windows 8.1 & Windows RT 8.1 39:44
Windows Server 2012 R2 40:24
Windows 10 40:41
Windows Server 2016 42:23
Windows Server 2019 43:48
Windows 10X (Cancelled) 44:17
Windows Server 2022 44:21
Cobalt Wave 1 44:49
Windows 11 (Cobalt Wave 2) 46:20
Nickel 46:33
Server Nickel 47:45
Copper 48:09
Server Copper 49:13
Zinc 49:57
Server Zinc 50:35
Gallium 51:07
Windows Server 2025 (Gallium) 51:33
Germanium 51:45
Windows Server 2025 (Germanium) 52:10

Thanks for watching!

[Gaswatya]

Tell me if I got something wrong, I'll fix it in the next version!

Please read this before commenting!
1. I forgot to include "Manganese (20H2)" and "Iron (21H1)" codebases as I started out on "Cobalt (21H2)" codebase.
2. I made a typo on 33:13 at "Windows Vista Build 5371". It's supposed to be Build 5471
3. I also left out Windows 1.0 Developer Releases, Windows/386 2.03, Windows/368 2.11, and Windows/286 2.1.
4. I used the wrong bootscreens of Windows 2000 Server Family RTM and Windows ME RTM.

All the startup and shutdown sounds in this video are almost 100% correct.
1. Windows does not have any sounds before Windows 3.0 MME
2. Windows NT 5.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2 does not use Windows 2000 Beta 3 Builds 1946 - 1969 startup sound as shutdown sound.
3. Windows Millenium uses 98 sounds as it's based on 98.
4. Windows Whistler used 2000 sounds until build 2485. (Build 2481 introduced XP sounds but still have 2000 sounds as default) The fake Windows Whistler startup uses Windows 98 shutdown sound, Windows 2000 Builds 1983 - 2000 startup sound, and level up sound from Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection. Meanwhile the shutdown sound uses sound from BeOS.
5. All versions of Windows Server 2003 used Windows XP sounds. The supposed "UK Startup" comes from an advertisement for Windows Server 2003, coincidentally aired in the UK.
6. The fake Windows Longhorn sounds came from Samsung desktop theme for Windows XP. Windows Longhorn used Windows XP sounds until build 5840.16384.
7. Starting from Windows Server 2008, the startup sound of the Windows Server version is unplayable.
8. Windows 8, 8.1, and 10 used Windows Vista startup sound. They do not use the shutdown sound.
9. Windows Server 2025 were announced on Tech Community Hub by Microsoft on January 26, 2024.

[revolutionsbytylerJ]

I saw a Windows startup/shutdown video back in 2017 that had the startup screens for the early builds of Windows Server 2003 (builds 2493-3787) that had the fake Whistler/BeOS sounds. I didn't even know those were actual boot screens, but they are, they were used for early builds for Server 2003. If they didn't use the fake Server 2003 UK sound for those screens in that video I watched in 2017, then I wouldn't even know that they were used for beta builds of Server 2003. The actual startup sound is the Windows XP startup sound, which was introduced in build 2493, the one with the Windows XP boot screen (without "XP") that I thought was fake when I first saw it back in 2017, but no it's real.

[IsmaDhani]

10:19 This Part should be HiT Turns into Paramount origin

[kayden]

Did you put in windows CE 1.0 2.0 and 3.0

[PSM-]

I'm love Windows 7 i'm instaled system on 2024 on my laptop to normal work and is great

[ChestYT]

And you got the windows 1.01 image bsod cause I see the incorrect DOS text and see corrupt text bro 💀

[jokevids]

This is like a follow up to Billy O' Rilly's video!

[CadenSantos]

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[imperator_M]

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[anatoliykorotkevich]

windows 95 windows nt windows 98 windows 2000 me wistler windows xp longhorn windows vista win 7 win 8 windows 10 win 11

[jeroen]

The Microsoft Windows 95 Plus! For Kids was so nostalgic for children between 5 to 11 years old in 1995.

[imperator_M]

У Windows 1.0 - 2.1 самые лучшие звуки

[kayden]

this build of windows 2000 it sounds like beta 3 add build :2031

[peteresmiksanyilas]

33:13 windows vista 5471 build! No 5371 build!

[riffmasters]

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