All Windows Startup and Shutdown Sounds

A lot of work was put into getting everything right and putting more builds in. If I got something wrong, please let me know. READ THE DESCRIPTION BEFORE COMMENTING!!!

***I got Memphis builds 1602-1619 wrong. The sounds in this build should be the Windows 98 RTM startup sound and the later beta 2.1 and beta 3 shutdown sound. This will be corrected in the next video
***The January 1994 bootscreen for Chicago is fake. Many .ISOs online have been modified to have the January 1994 time stamp on the boot screen. When unmodified, it should still say January 1993.
***The final beta release boot screen of Windows 95 was left out.
***I left out some boot screens (Windows 3.1 build 26 and 43e. Windows NT build 297, Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing. Windows 98 build 1593.)
***I used the wrong boot screen for Longhorn builds 3683-4008 which use a copyright date of 1985-2003. I put the Windows XP Professional RTM boot screen instead.

*Windows did not have any sounds before 3.1.

*Windows NT 5.0 EUR is fake.

*Windows NT 5.0 does not use that Windows 2000 beta 3 builds 1946-1969 startup as a shutdown.

*Microsoft Longhorn sounds aren't official and are believed to actually come from a Windows XP Custom Theme

*Windows Server 2003 UK sound is fake.

*Odyssey bootscreens are fake. Any video that has Odyssey is incorrect. While Neptune and Odyssey were being planned out at the same time, they only released one Alpha build of Neptune and Microsoft never released a single build of Odyssey so no one knows for sure what sounds it would have. I would assume it would have Windows 2000 sounds but I wouldn't put up an unleaked OS on these videos.

*Windows 8 and 10 have the Windows 7 startup sound. The reason why you don’t hear it is because it is disabled by default. You can enable it in the “sounds” window where you change the sounds. It is a box that you need to check that says something like “Play Windows Startup Sound”. You also need to have fast startup disabled for the startup sound to play. To disable it, go to power options in the control panel, on the left on the window, click "Choose what the power buttons do", click "change settings that are currently unavailable", and you should be able to uncheck "fast startup", click save changes, and then restart.

*Windows Codename Millennium used Windows 98 sounds. No, I’m not wrong. I know this.

*Some of the Vista builds used the Vista logoff sound as a shutdown sound. One build used the logon sound as a startup sound while others used XP sounds or mixed between XP and Vista sounds.

*The earliest builds of Whistler had a Windows 2000 boot screen.

*Whistler build 2481 was the first build to introduce Windows XP sounds but still kept Windows 2000 sounds as default.

Try out the operating systems yourself like I did and you should get the same results as me.

I did not make most of these images.

I do not own the audio in this video.

[Sonicrush]

*_Please read the description before commenting._*
***I got Memphis builds 1602-1619 wrong. The sounds in this build should be the Windows 98 RTM startup sound and the later beta 2.1 and beta 3 shutdown sound. This will be corrected in the next video
***The January 1994 bootscreen for Chicago is fake. Many .ISOs online have been modified to have the January 1994 time stamp on the boot screen. When unmodified, it should still say January 1993.
***The final beta release boot screen of Windows 95 was left out.
***I left out some boot screens (Windows 3.1 build 26 and 43e. Windows NT build 297, Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing. Windows 98 build 1593.)
***I used the wrong boot screen for Longhorn builds 3683-4008 which use a copyright date of 1985-2003. I put the Windows XP Professional RTM boot screen instead.
***Windows NT 4.0 build 1273 was the first build to use RTM sounds and not the tada and chimes sound.

Changes in this video:
*Corrected Windows 2000 builds 1983-2000 bootscreen
*Changed Windows NT 5.0 bootscreens to more clear images
*Added builds to Windows 3.0, Windows NT OSes, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Home Server, Windows 7, and Windows 10
I did not add Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, or Windows Server 2008 RTM due to a lack of information on sounds. Once I am able to figure these issues out, I'll be adding them.

[sonic]

I can't be the only one who actually finds Windows 98 Beta 3's shutdown sound more calming that the final one.

[superstar]

The title is no lie, that is literally every known windows startup and shutdown sound used

[MogeChi]

This person would be the perfect president for Microsoft in the actual

[thetnedln]

The fact that XP used to have 2000’s sounds, and Vista used to have XP’s sounds baffles me.

[canofeggs]

Finally a not-fake startup video, thanks! Im subbing

[zackhelman]

The Windows NT is the one and only sound that can rival the loudness of the PS2 startup 😂

[irrigamii]

Windows history is always interesting, knowing that we still use the NT kernel that started development almost 30 years ago.

[fortniterer]

0:00 Windows 1.0
0:14 Windows 2.0
0:24 Windows 3.0
0:35 Windows 3.1
0:43 Windows 3.11
0:48 Windows 3.2
0:52 Windows 3.1 For Workgroups
0:59 Windows NT 3.1
1:08 Windows NT 3.5
1:43 Windows Chicago (Development of Windows 95)
2:00 Windows 95
4:47 Windows NT 4.0
7:49 Windows Terminal Server 4.0
8:56 Windows Memphis (Windows 98 Development)
9:15 Windows 98
17:00 Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000 Development)
19:05 Windows 2000
19:50 Windows Millennium (Development of Windows ME)
20:30 Windows ME
21:07 Microsoft Neptune (Windows XP Development)
21:19 Windows Whistler (More Windows XP Development
22:18 Windows XP
24:34 Windows Whistler Server Family (Development of Windows Server 2003)
25:20 Windows Whistler Again (Some More window Server 2003 Development
25:45 Even Development of Windows Server 2003
27:27 Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs
27:36 Windows Longhorn (Development of Windows Vista+Pre-Reset Builds)
28:29 Windows Longhorn Reset
28:39 Windows Longhorn (Post-Reset Builds)
29:00 Windows Longhorn is Now Windows Vista
29:10 Windows Vista
30:12 Windows Server 2008
30:50 Windows Home Server
31:19 Windows Embedded POSReady 2009
31:29 Windows 7 Development
32:14 Windows 7
32:37 Windows Thin PC
32:45 Windows Embedded POSReady 7
32:52 Windows 8
32:59 Windows RT
33:12 Windows Embedded 8
33:18 Windows 10
35:43 Windows Server 2016

[theyoutuber]

Good to see you are dedicated to this project. Some dawned on me that Windows would be quite different if there was no reset for Longhorn.

[aydenmarietta]

This is really good. You got every sound correct. I still don't understand how some of the fake sounds ever came to be. I'll even admit I was fooled and thought the fake ones were real until I tested out those particular versions of Windows. Anyways, great job

[dyakogdes]

finally a video about literally all the start up sounds and shutdown sounds.i liked and subscribed

[jesse_cantcook]

Omg I needed this! So many videos claim to have all the windows startups and shutdowns but don’t thank u

[progressbarprofessional]

Goddamnit bro, that's a hella lot of Windows systems. I only focus on more _well known_ systems but darn, this video had to take hours to research and find.

[arkii]

it's interesting to hear that Windows 95 (256 Color) has a different shutdown sound

[excalibur]

Thanks for doing this. What a trip down memory lane. My favorite startup sound had to be Windows 95. Coincidentally, it was the first OS I used on a computer.

[pawer_themaw]

Finally someone thought of this and pointed that Windows 1-3 DO NOT have any sounds.

[KCandFriendsUSA]

3:43 Never seen such an angelic sign off

[JuniorBlitz]

This is the best windows startup and shutdown sound video so far!

[ibolyatoth]

I think Windows 95's shutdown sound and startup sound is the most nostalgic. Imagine living in a world where only these old, nostalgic computers existed. And all the people wanted to go to the 2020's. And you tell them no, because all of the happiness, the smiles just went away. Because of the too much people tell more people that it is just a computer. But it isn't....