evolution of Windows startup and shutdown sounds 1985-2020

Windows 1.01 (1985)
Windows 2.03 (1987)
Windows 3.0 (1990)
Windows 3.1 (1992)
Windows NT 3.1 (1993)
Windows NT Workstation 3.5 (1994)
Windows NT Server 3.51 (1995)
Windows NT Workstation 3.51 (1995)
Windows 95 (1995)
Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (1996)
Windows NT Workstation 5.0 (1997)
Windows 98 (1998)
Windows 2000 (1999)
Windows Neptune (1999)
Windows ME (2000)
Windows Whistler (2001)
Windows XP (2001)
Windows Server 2003 (2003)
Windows Server 2003 UK (2003)
Windows Longhorn (2003)
Windows Vista (2006)
Windows Server 2008 (2008)
Windows 7 (2009)
Windows Server 2012 (2012)
Windows 8 (2012)
Windows 8.1 (2013)
Windows 10 (2015)
Windows Server 2016 (2016)
Windows Server 2019 (2018)
Windows 11 (2020)

[eliasdoezeverything]

0:00 “The Olden Days”
0:03 “House Party”
0:13 “Extreme Tears”
0:21 “The Rise And Fall”
0:40 “Rise And Teleport To The Future”
0:58 “The Sound Of Happy Clouds”
1:09 “Think Back To 2000”
1:37 “Whistle And Fall”
1:46 “Just A Normal Windows Day”
2:03 “Shooting Star Wishes”
2:15 “Heaven”
2:26 “The One And Only”
2:43 “Short Start”

[confusedungabunga]

2:15 is no one gonna talk how beautiful this sounded.... I'd just sleep rebooting lmao

[drogg]

2:26 ah the memory of printing paper to color on and playing solitaire without knowing wtf I was doing. oh the times

[glxira]

2:26 ah yes, opening the computer, excited to play zuma, solitaire, plant vs zombies not knowing the mechanics and just hoping that you would win. good times

[Gonig]

1:46 I remember powering up that old computer at my grandma's house with headphones and forgetting that last time it was at 100% volume.
Good memories

[Kaitanji]

Windows 3.1 and WindowsNT be like: _Hooray! You started up your computer. Here's a gold medal._

[Hinochi_]

0:13
Change da world.
My final message.
Goodbye.

[lukecamerini]

2:26 hit that nostalgia nail right on the head for me

[ythesquonk]

2:38 I remember hearing this sound whenever my mom opens her computer when I was just a child

[Pixelcraftian]

It’s been 2020, where’s windows 11? 👀

[atedentedrawnmask]

0:13
The start : adorable
The end: TCHARAM :D

[Oliwarder]

First PC in our family: 0:59
I have remembered that sounds for the rest of my life

[AlexIsiv]

1:46 is where the true memories are.
Reminds me of me coming back from middle school after telling my friends to go online at 3 pm so we could chat, reminds me of some girls that rejected me and I still had them on MSN and I could see and hear when they logged in. I discovered so many bands on myspace and changed my taskbar theme a lot. Good memories, good times

[mch.]

I was 7 when I heard that 0:58 during our computer class. Computer is still considered as rare at that time and I still remember the excitement of being able to use computer.

[flamingofan]

*shuts down pc*
Microsoft: Good job!

[cheezymemes]

0:41 that's my vaccum cleaner sound






Edit: Mom I'm famous

[juliabrnssr]

1:09 This is nuts. Probably haven't heard that start up in 20 years and yet I still remember it. Funny how some memories need a trigger to get to them.

[Leo-scyj]

1:46 my childhood❤️. The good old days

[waterbe]

I was always terrified of the windows xp startup and shutdown sounds. Everytime I turned the computer on I'd run upstairs until its booted up and I did the same for the shutdown except I never went back downstairs

[andreacall]

Windows 95, XP, and Vista will forever live in my brain. My grandparents had an old Windows 95 desktop and that's where I first started typing stories on Word before I even knew how to type properly. So much solitaire was played on that old computer!