How to Disable or Change Windows Startup, Shutdown and Other System Sounds? – Reader’s Question

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How to Disable or Change Windows Startup, Shutdown and Other System Sounds? – Reader’s Question

By Mr.Byte • July 23, 2009

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Long back we saw how to disable the clicking sound from Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer in Vista and Windows 7, and on similar note one of the LyteByte reader has asked how to change or disable the windows startup sound? Well, many may be interested in disabling or changing the windows startup, shutdown and other sounds like Windows logon, Windows logoff, System Notification, Mail notification and other similar sounds.

So how to disable or change Windows startup, shutdown, logon, logoff and other system sounds?

This article is explained using Windows 7 and it should be the same with Vista.

Click Start –> Control Panel –> Hardware and Sound –> Sound (or just search for Sound in Start and click Sound under Control Panel)

Go to the Sounds tab.

Here you can control all different system sounds like, Startup Sound, Shutdown Sound, Windows Logoff, Windows Logon, Windows User Account Control, System Notification, Email Notification etc.

How to disable it?

If you want to disable any of the sounds, just choose the Program Event and choose None from Sounds drop down menu.

How to change it?

Likewise as above, choose the Program Event and use Browse to select a new sound. (Note: It has to be WAV format and keep the size small to enable a good startup or shutdown process.)

Disable Windows Startup Sound?

Just uncheck the Play Windows Startup Sound.

How about changing Windows Startup and Shutdown sound?

If you had scrolled down and up to see Windows Startup and Shutdown sound, you might have been disappointed to not see it there. But these sounds are stored in C Drive –> Windows –> Media (C:\Windows\Media)

If you want to change any particular sound here, just paste your sound file here and rename it to the name here. For example, Windows Startup and Windows Shutdown. (Note: Here also, it has to be WAV format and keep the size small to enable a good startup or shutdown problem