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March 1st, 2011 15:00

Windows 7 Doesn't allow me to change start up sound.

Hi, I have an interesting problem here, nothing serious but it's bugging me. I downloaded a desktop theme that includes a bunch of cool start up and log off sounds.

 

The weird thing is that if I go to Personalization and then try to change the sounds, it lets me change pretty much every sound except the windows log on sound.

 

Or more precisely, it lets me change it, even if I click on "Test" it plays the sound I want to play but even after I press Apply and restart the computer I still get the default windows sound but when I turn the computer off I get the other sounds that I downloaded. In other words, for some reason, even if I change it, the windows log on sound is stuck there.

Any idea of whats going on?

 

  • fireberd

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    Posted March 1st, 2011 16:00

    This has come up several times on the Windows 7 forum.  No one has figured out how to change sounds that I know of. 

    Inspiron 16 5630 Laptop and WD22TB4 Docking Station
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  • Telson A

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    Posted March 1st, 2011 17:00

    Hi

    This might interest you

    http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/63398-startup-sound-change-windows-7-a.html

    Do let me know if this works.

  • Silvorn

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    Posted March 3rd, 2011 10:00

    It has been a while but when I got my system I could not customize sounds. I could select the file, play it for a test but windows would not use it. Computer was that way straight out of the box and Dell  wanted to charge me for "software support" to fix it. Took about three hours with tech support and they finally figured out the installed  audio drivers were the issue. Make sure your drivers are up to date.