Windows 10: Revealed: Why Microsoft turned off Windows 10 startup sound by default

With every Windows release, Microsoft nixed quite a bit of famous features, and apparently that included startup sound. When the brand new Windows 10 or Windows 8 device power on, they don’t make the familiar startup chime we’ve come to know and love in previous versions, such as Windows 7 and XP.

Jensen Harris, who worked as the director of the Windows User Experience (WUE) team, recently explained why the company turn off the startup sound on Windows 8 and Windows 10 by default.

The startup sound is still included on Windows 10, but it’s disabled by default. According to a former Microsoft employee, Jensen Harris, startup sound was axed because modern Windows devices work a little differently now – they can be used anytime and anywhere, and that startup sound can disrupt a meeting or class while trying to restart a computer.

Mostly, this was the result of the transition into a new world where PCs are more like your mobile device—always on, ready to go and can be used anywhere.

When Microsoft started working on modern devices and operating system, they were optimizing the platform for “mobile-first” use cases. One team within Microsoft was busy porting Windows to ARM processors, while another team had started to design a touch-first tablet user interface.

As Microsoft decided to focus on 2-in-1s, laptops, and mobile-first use cases, the company realized that startup chime on every reboot can be annoying and awkward. For example, if you’ve to work late at night during your bedroom, it’d be less-than-ideal to open up your laptop only to have it loudly play out the startup sound.

“One of the things we did was to look at how and where people were using their PCs,” Harris explained. “Most of the PCs being sold were laptops or netbooks, and that percentage was going up every year. With mobility came different considerations—PCs being used in places that would have been very unusual when Windows 3.1 came out, like in the bedroom or on the couch,” he added.

The startup sound was ultimately turned off by default to prevent an unintended interruption when you open your laptop.

However, Microsoft did not entirely remove the option and it was only disabled on new installations by default, which means you can still enable the startup sound by following these steps:

• Open Settings > Personalization.
• Click the Sounds option and open the Sounds tab.
• Enable the “Play Windows Startup sound” option.
  
• Click the Apply button and click on OK.

If you followed the steps correctly, your system will now play a sound every time you start or restart the computer.

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Windows Startup Sound

Hi Peck,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

As per the previous posts I understand that you are referring to Startup sounds in Windows 10.

If so, I suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.

Make sure that your device speakers are working fine before performing the troubleshooting steps.

• 
  Right click on the Volume icon on the Task bar.
  
• 
  Select Sounds option from the list.
  
• 
  Select Sounds tab.
  
• 
  Check mark on Play Windows Startup sound option.
  
• 
  Under Program Events: click on any option and under Sounds: select Windows Startup from the list.
  
• 
  Click on Browser button and select a
  Sound.
  
• 
  Try to restart the computer and check if it helps.
  

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue, we will be happy to help you further.

 

No startup sound in Windows 10

I believe there is a registry hack that must be done in order for the windows start audio file will load when the system starts. I have personally hacked the registry to get the windows startup audio file to play. In saying that, once the registry has been
modified to support Windows Startup sound, the audio is a Windows default audio file. As far as I know, there is no way to force Windows 10 Startup audio file to play anything other than the default Windows Startup file.

Here are the steps to take to get the Windows 10 logon sound.

To changing the logon sound in Windows 10

If changing the Logon sound is enough for your needs, this will do the trick. For this you need to make Windows reveal the "Windows Logon" sound entry in the Sounds dialog as it is hidden by default. I assume you already
have the sound file itself downloaded or already on your system, if not you can use websites like keepvid.com or other ways to download the sound from the video.

Recommended steps below:

• Open Registry Editor (Win+R, then type regedit and confirm with Enter key).
• Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels\WindowsLogon.
• Double-click on the ExcludeFromCPL value and then
  change it from 1 to 0. (1 is the default) You can also delete the value directly.
• Close the Registry Editor and
  
• Open the Windows Sounds dialog (right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar on the right then
  select "Sounds").
• Search for the Windows Logon sound in the list.
  Edit it as if you would change any other sound.
• Click [OK]

Explanation:

By default some of the sounds in Windows are hidden from the dialog.

The "ExcludeFromCPL" value is responsible for the hiding - 1 means Windows will hide the entry from the Sounds dialog, deleting or zeroing it will unhide the entry.

One could change the value for every other sound in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels as well if you want to.

Let us know if you decide to try this procedure.

This works only for the logon sound if you do the same to system exit and windows logoff it will work but there is no windows 10 startup sound

 

No startup sound in Windows 10

I believe there is a registry hack that must be done in order for the windows start audio file will load when the system starts. I have personally hacked the registry to get the windows startup audio file to play. In saying that, once the registry has been
modified to support Windows Startup sound, the audio is a Windows default audio file. As far as I know, there is no way to force Windows 10 Startup audio file to play anything other than the default Windows Startup file.

Here are the steps to take to get the Windows 10 logon sound.

To changing the logon sound in Windows 10

If changing the Logon sound is enough for your needs, this will do the trick. For this you need to make Windows reveal the "Windows Logon" sound entry in the Sounds dialog as it is hidden by default. I assume you already
have the sound file itself downloaded or already on your system, if not you can use websites like keepvid.com or other ways to download the sound from the video.

Recommended steps below:

• Open Registry Editor (Win+R, then type regedit and confirm with Enter key).
• Goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels\WindowsLogon.
• Double-click on the ExcludeFromCPL value and then
  change it from 1 to 0. (1 is the default) You can also delete the value directly.
• Close the Registry Editor and
  
• Open the Windows Sounds dialog (right-click the speaker icon in the taskbar on the right then
  select "Sounds").
• Search for the Windows Logon sound in the list.
  Edit it as if you would change any other sound.
• Click [OK]

Explanation:

By default some of the sounds in Windows are hidden from the dialog.

The "ExcludeFromCPL" value is responsible for the hiding - 1 means Windows will hide the entry from the Sounds dialog, deleting or zeroing it will unhide the entry.

One could change the value for every other sound in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels as well if you want to.

Let us know if you decide to try this procedure.