Windows 10: Startup sound not playing in Windows 10 (10162)

Hello,
I'm running Windows 10 (build 10130) in a virtual machine and I noticed that the startup sound wasn't playing. The box for "Play startup sound" is checked in the Sound control panel, and I even checked imageres.dll to see if the startup sound was still there. (it still is.)
What could this mean, and how can I fix it?

Thank you in advance for answers.

:)

 

No startup sound in Windows 10

Hi,

Your pc is perfectly fine. Windows 10 devices don't play a startup sound.

Actually Windows 10 has a feature called fast startup. So something related to this

is the reason that Windows 10 don't play startup sound.

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So, It's a feature

 

Win 10 Pro - can't turn off the Startup Sound

Yes, unchecking the box to "Play Windows Startup sound" works for Win 10 Home but has no effect on Win 10 Pro. Have gone back and forth with this, rebooting of course, and the startup sound always plays. Whether box is checked or not, the sound always plays.

 

DISABLE sound card DRIVERS in Device Manager then ENABLE it again.
This worked for the two times it hap opened to me.

 

I tried that, but it didn't work...

 

Bump. I am now using build 10162, and the startup sound isn't playing.

 

Test other system sounds in Control Panel / Hardware & Sound / Change system sounds and "test" to see if any of the other system sounds are working for you.

If none of your other system sounds are working either, try the suggestion below.

Try going into Control Panel/ Hardware & Sound/ Manage Audio Devices and selecting your Playback device then click the Properties button.
In the advanced tab change it from default to 24bit (or something different other than what it is currently set at) and hit apply, then change it back to whatever your default setting was and hit apply...reboot and see if it now works.

 

I tried all of that-- even unchecking the "Play Windows Startup sound" box and restarting and then checking the box again, and none of it worked.

 

Could be a bug in Windows. My sounds worked in build 10159 for all startup and recycle bin and all that jazz. I haven't been able to get sound to work since build 10162 for my computer. Some sounds play like UAC and etc, but no Windows Startup or Recycle Bin sounds even though I have them checked and they work when I test them.

Seems this shit gets more buggier every day. Its frustrating.

 

Upgraded to Build 10166 today. Startup sound still isn't there.

 

Those of you having sound problems, do you have a realtek sound device? Maybe try upgrading the sound driver or going back to an older version.

 

Well, now I am running THE FINAL VERSION (10240) and still nothing.
I would guess that this is a VMWare issue, but I'm not so sure about that.

 

Try to follow this :
Click Start< Run and type regedit and hit enter. Once Registry Editor opens highlight Hkey_Current_User. Once it is highlighted look on the right column which will show a Reg_SZ value with the name (default). Right click this value and hit delete. Reboot the computer and test.

Hope that it help ~!

 

It helps half way. I tried it and like Jaustin found in his thread, it only works for restart but not for a normal start up boot.

 

Yes indeed it would fix only few sounds but

I tried this and it works perfectly to me at least all sounds is back :


There are two User profile registry keys that have become corrupt or are missing:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Names


Create a new user. Log on as that user, run regedit, right click and export these two registry hives individually to files.
save them at flash or anything and Log off.
Log on as the user that is missing the sound schemes ( And its the main user you use ).
Get your files out from your flash to desktop
and then run again regedit and
delete :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Names


And then Import both registry files that you saved at your Desktop .

I hope this works to you ~ good luck !