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.
The Windows 95 startup sound is something special. After that, you have to run the third-party program and even after that, you have to shutdown and restart the computer in a certain way in order to actually hear the sound. In Windows 8, it gets worse if you miss your beloved startup sound because it’s completely disabled, so you first have to enable it in the registry. In Windows 7, you have to use a third-party program to change the startup sound because if you try via the Control Panel, it doesn’t do anything. However, if you want to have your own custom startup and shutdown sounds in Windows, it’s possible.
I never was a huge fan of the Windows startup or shutdown sounds, which is why I was so happy they were removed in Windows 8.
