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Old windows startup sounds

quarryman · 2004-03-25 11:51:25

Booted up XP the other day and i was thinking about the old sounds that used to play at log in and boot. There was one (I think it was either Win 95 or 3.1) that had a really nice startup jingle. Its long gone but I'd know it if I heard it straight away. Anyone know where I could find archives of some of that kind of…

25-03-2004 11:51am

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quarryman

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Booted up XP the other day and i was thinking about the old sounds that used to play at log in and boot. There was one (I think it was either Win 95 or 3.1) that had a really nice startup jingle. Its long gone but I'd know it if I heard it straight away.

Anyone know where I could find archives of some of that kind of windows stuff. Windows old-school so to speak

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#2 26-03-2004 9:27pm

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Google "Win95" "Startup.wav"

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#3 26-03-2004 9:33pm

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In XP Control Panel, Sounds & Audio devices, Browse, there is a file marked "Office 97" which contains some of the older sounds. Dont know if this is any help

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#4 26-03-2004 11:27pm

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tada.wav

The same company spent $5 million on the rolling stones song "Start it up" to advertise the Start button. "you make a grown man cry..."

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#5 27-03-2004 1:03am

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:eek:

http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/play/play.cfm/sound_iid.2656

they expect somebody to pay $1.85 for a 7kb wav file?
i've heard it all now

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