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The only other thing you have to check a setting under Sound in Control Panel.

Click Play to hear the current startup sound, Replace to change the startup sound and Restore to revert back to the original startup sound.

Thankfully, it doesn’t install anything on your system, so you can just delete it once you are finished. In Windows 7, you have to rely on the third-party program called Startup Sound Changer. You can follow this same procedure in Windows 7, but for some reason it doesn’t actually change the startup sound. Go ahead and click on the Browse button and simply choose the replacement WAV file. Click on the Sounds tab and then click on Start Windows in the list box. The second method is to go to Control Panel and click on Sounds and Audio Devices. Just create a file that has the exact same name as the one in the Media folder and replace it. If you don’t like some of the other default Windows sounds, you can change them also in the same manner. Step 3: Now copy the two renamed files to the C:\Windows\Media folder and restart your computer! You should now hear the new audio play rather than the default sounds. This is just in case the two WAV files you created do not work and you want to revert back to the original sound. Go ahead and move the two original files from the Media folder to some other backup folder. Here you will find the files Windows XP Startup.wav and Windows XP Shutdown.wav along with a bunch of other Windows sounds. Step 2: Now go ahead and navigate to the folder with the current startup and shutdown Windows sounds, which is C:\Windows\Media. Step 1: Rename each WAV file to Windows XP Startup.wav and Windows XP Shutdown.wav respectively. Let’s start with copying the audio files to the sounds directory. There are two ways to go about changing the startup and other sounds in Windows XP: simple drag and drop into the appropriate folder or using the Control Panel. Try to keep the file size small, less than 1 MB if possible. If you have an MP3, you can convert it to WAV format easily using a free online tool like Media.io. Before we get into the details, you will first want to find an appropriate audio file in WAV format.

I’ll go through each operating system below to make it as easy as possible depending on your OS.