Hi Gerard,Welcome to Microsoft Community. Your interest in Windows 10 is much appreciated.I understand that you wanted to Customize the Windows start up sound.Don't worry, I'll be happy to assist you with this.Windows has always allowed to you to customize different alert sounds from the Control Panel, but it remove your ability to customize a few of them in Windows 10 particularly the sounds for logon, logoff, and shutdown.
Here'show to change them.When you go to Control Panel Sound Sounds, you'll see these options are no longer available for customization. Well, it turns out, they're just hidden, and you can unhide them with a simple registry tweak. To do so:. Press Win+R to bring up the Run menu.
Type inregedit and press OK to bring up the Registry Editor. Head to HKEYCURRENTUSERAppEventsEventLabels and you should see a number of subfolders, each one representing a different sound in theOS. If you click on one—say, WindowsLogon —you'll see a key in the right pane calledExcludeFromCPL. Double-click it and change its value to 0. Repeat this process for WindowsLogoff andSystemExit. Exit the Registry Editor and head back toControl Panel Sound Sounds. You should see those options have returned to the menu, and you can customize them as normal.Note:To do so: Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry.
However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow thesesteps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.
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For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the articlein the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 322756 ( )How to back up and restore the registry in WindowsPlease let us know, if you need any further help and we would be glad to assist you further.Thank you. I have performed the above registry operations but I do not hear any sound when I log off or log back on again. Other sounds do work.
I can listen to music and talk to Cortana just fine.Suggestions are welcome. A Google search tells me I need a third-party program, Change Startup Sound, to get my own WAV file to play at start up.
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This WAV file plays just fine when I test it in Control Panel. Control Panel says that this WAV file is indeedmy startup sound. It worked just fine in my old XP machine but has not worked on my Windows 8/8.1 machine either before or after I upgraded it to Windows 10.Further suggestions are appreciated.Edit: I turned the computer completely off, then turned it on again a minute later. Still no startup sound.Bill Sharpe. This worked for me.1.
Right click on the speaker icon on bottom right of screen.2. Click on sounds.3. Ensure 'Play windows startup sound' is checked.4. Right click on start button.5.
Click on 'Power options'6. Click on 'Choose what power button do.' Uncheck 'Turn on fast startup' ( it does sayrecommended to check this box)8. If it is greyed out go up to the shield and click on 'change settings that currently are unavailable.' I then shut off my computer. After a few minutes I started it back up and my startup sound worked.
I does take a little longer to start.