Windows 10: Shutdown sound notification

A truncated system notification sound will be heard if the start menu POWER=Shutdown or the Start Menu right click "shut down or sign out"=shutdown is used. Testing the default control panel sounds has the system notification be the closest to the brief musical sound I hear. There is not an actual 'shut down sound' displayed in the list.
A short cut icon with the shut down script 'C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe -s -t 00' does not produce this sound.
The event viewer report at shutdown time displays the Client OOBE ID 3 stopped. (Why this is listed as an error is a mystery since the security would be stopping if the machine is shut down???but that is the only event listed)

This little sound started after the Jan updates.
Previous to Jan and Feb updates I could not expect a complete shutdown if an external drive was plugged in.
After the recent updates the external drive can be left plugged in and the shut down does not restart.
That little sound is nothing compared to restart but I wondered if it needed to be investigated.

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System sounds no longer working after downgrade to Windows 7 from Windows 10

Hi,

I've tried the steps and restarted, and tried running the troubleshooter and some system sounds are still not working, mainly the Windows error sounds but other sounds like new email notifications or the navigational sounds, logon/logoff and startup/shutdown
sounds and sounds from other programs worked normally; there doesn't seem to be any problem with my sound card.

 

Frequent freezes/hangs, action center & start unresponsive, apps not functioning after anniversary update

Apologies for the delay.

• Control Panel > hardware and sound > Power Options
• Choose what the power button does
• Change settings that are currently unavailable
• Then under shutdown settings, uncheck "Turn-on fast start-up"

Be warned that this resulted in some especially slow shutdowns for some reason but so far the notification issue has not resurfaced.