Custom Windows sounds

[Kazuya Mishima]

Didn't know where to put this thread.

What are you starting and ending sounds in windows?
I normally have my speakers turned off but i got a new laptop and i decided to use the sound of the Twin Snakes (when Snake loses) when i turn it off.
I still don't know what to use when i start it up.
I was thinking of asking one of my female friends to record his voice with a sensual tone saying: Hi, do you want to use me again?
Well, you have to take into account i'm an irreverent lawyer who doesn't care what other people think about him

What do you use for your turn on/off windows sounds?

[jonc2006]

i have duke nukem say "hello" and "cya". for my idle sound i have him say "what are you waiting for christmas!?" i used to have a toilet flush sound for my windows turn off.

[Samor]

I use the sega saturn bootup sound (eur/us ver.) as windows startup sound.

[TheCloudOfSmoke]

I used to have the "Sega" sound that was in the beginning of the original Sonic games.

[shafeen]

i use a "hello"sound recorded from a flim and the terminators sound(arnold schwagner)"" i will be back"" when i shut down
also i use "oh my god sound"(female sound) when an error comes

[CKemu]

Obsolute silence, not a sound to be heard, I utterly hate startup, shutdown, alert and all those other misc sounds. Guy I used to know had a sound for everything, from wacko booms and clicks for window openning to the most gowd aweful laugh everytime he emptied the recycle bin (he din't know the concept of shift+del)...

I can think of better things to 'customise' my experience

[Player-X]

I use the default sounds

[cloudsBro]

Ive got applause for my startup and good old Arnie's "Ill be back" for my shutdown.

[jonc2006]

Originally Posted by clouds bro

Ive got applause for my startup and good old Arnie's "Ill be back" for my shutdown.

holy **** ive been looking for that one forever where do you get it man?

[metalgear]

I have homestar runner for my system noises, fricken makes me laugh everytime

[cloudsBro]

Originally Posted by jonc2006

holy **** ive been looking for that one forever where do you get it man?

Theres a few quotes here. It wasnt that hard to find, Google was my friend as always

[TheCloudOfSmoke]

Link doesn't work. You got 2 http://s on the link.

[n_w95482]

I turn mine off. I find it annoying and I'm sure it's a little easier on the computer not having to load all of those wave files and keep them in memory.

[refraction]

im an off turner too. Two reasons.

1. They are annoying
2. Windows WAITS for the sound to finish

[jonc2006]

Originally Posted by refraction

im an off turner too. Two reasons.

1. They are annoying
2. Windows WAITS for the sound to finish

yeah but isnt #2 only an issue if your sound file is like an hour or something?

[Norbi]

Originally Posted by Kazuya Mishima

Didn't know where to put this thread.

I was thinking of asking one of my female friends to record his voice with a sensual tone saying: Hi, do you want to use me again?

Kinda scary

Originally Posted by CKemu

Obsolute silence, not a sound to be heard, I utterly hate startup, shutdown, alert and all those other misc sounds.

Holy words there CK, holy words . I never had any of that crap on my PC. I also switched off the alerts as what's the point of hearing it when you see it anyway? ( ) (and i "jumped" a few times the speakers where put on load ) Pointless IMHO.

[refraction]

Originally Posted by jonc2006

yeah but isnt #2 only an issue if your sound file is like an hour or something?

depends, when you have a **** hot machine which can do stuff pretty instantly, you dont want crappy sound files you dont even care about making it take longer ;p

[Vanit]

I'm for default, I don't know why people seek to make navigating around the windows ui entertaining. I'd turn it off but I sort of use the sounds to monitor if the sound is still working or not.

[Solid_Snake]

How can I customize my sounds?

[jonc2006]

Originally Posted by Solid_Snake

How can I customize my sounds?

first off the audio files you want to use, they need to be in wav. format i think.if your using winxp, go to start>control panel>sound and audio>change/edit sound scheme (its at the top, there are 3 options i think its the2nd one down in the audio panel). then you have the ability to mod the sounds that play when certain things happen in windows (for example when my recycle bin gets emptied, i have arnold say "hasta la vista baby") you need to browse through your files and link the directory your sound file is at with the corresponding profile (i.e. windows logoff, system error, shutdown,startup)