


You’ll obviously need to restart your system to experience the nostalgia of the classic startup sound. Select your Windows 95 startup sound as the logon sound and press Apply. Either method will add your sound to the list.

Replace C with whatever drive letter Windows is installed on. Or, open File Explorer and add your startup sound file to “C:\Windows\Media” First, select “Browse.” Navigate to your sound and select it. There are two ways to add your Windows 95 startup sound as an option in the Sounds drop down box. Select “Power Options.” If you don’t see this, change the “View by” at the top right to “Large icons.” To do this, click Start, type control panel, then click “Control Panel” in the search results. Switching off Fast Boot can restore your startup sound. It also prevents Windows from greeting you with a jingle because Windows doesn’t think your PC was actually shut down in the first place. This is thanks to the “Fast Boot” feature in Windows 11, which essentially hibernates your PC, shutting it down but keeping your session, drivers and so-on dormant in the hibernation file, ready to spring back into action as soon as you turn your PC on.įast boot can speed up boot time, though its effects aren’t significant and some people have even reported that it slows down their boot time. You’ve probably noticed by now that when you shut down your Windows 11 PC, you can magically turn it on again by pressing any key on your keyboard instead of the Power button on your machine. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants Windows to greet me with a nice jingle, so this tutorial will show you how to bring back a startup sound to Windows 11 (or Windows 10) and (if you so wish) replace it with quite possibly the best OS startup sound of them all.
