How to change Windows 10 startup/shutdown sound

• Earlier Windows versions enable users to change the system sounds easily, but these are hidden on Windows 10.
• You can unhide the sound settings and use any WAV format sound for the events.
• Bookmark our extensive Windows 10 hub to access more similar tutorials .
• For more tricks and DIY guides, check out our How-To section.

However, Microsoft sacrificed the sound settings for faster shutdown and startup in Windows 10.

In the following section, I’ll walk you through the steps for changing your Windows 10 startup/shutdown sound.

Note that the items in the next section are steps and not different methods of doing it. So, you have to follow the guide in the order that it’s presented.

How do I change the Windows 10 startup and shutdown sounds?

1. Disable fast startup

1. Right-click on the battery icon on your taskbar and select Power Options.
2. Select the Choose what the power buttons do option on the left.
3. Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable.
4. In Shutdown settings, unmark the checkbox beside Turn on fast startup (recommended).
5. Hit the Save changes button below.

2. Turn on the startup sound

1. Press the Windows key + I combination.
2. Go to Personalization.
3. Select Themes from the left panel.
4. Click on Sounds.
5. Check the box beside Play Windows Startup sound.
6. Click on the OK button.

3. Enable the startup and shutdown sounds from Windows Registry

1. Press the Window key + R to open the Run dialog box.
2. In Run, type Regedit and press ENTER.
3. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/AppEvents/EventLabels

At this point, the next step is to activate the startup and shutdown sounds.

Enable the startup sound

1. Find WindowsLogon and click on ExcludeFromCPL.
2. Modify the Value data to 0 from 1.
3. Hit the OK button to save it.

Enable the shutdown sound

1. Return to EventLabels.
2. Click on the SystemExit subkey
3. Double-click on ExcludeFromCPL.
4. Change the Value data from 1 to 0.
5. Click on OK.

Enable the log off sound

1. Go back to EventLabels.
2. Click on the WindowsLogoff subkey on the left.
3. Double-click on ExcludeFromCPL subkey.
4. Change the Value data from 1 to 0.

4. Change the startup and shutdown sounds

1. Press the Windows key + I combination to open Settings.
2. Navigate to Personalization > Themes.
3. Click on the Sounds option.
4. Find the sound you want to customize from the Program Events list.
   1. For the startup sound, click on Windows Logon.
   2. For the shutdown sound, click on Exit Windows.
   3. For the logoff sound, click on Windows Logoff.
5. Select Browse.
6. Pick the music that you want to set as your new startup sound.
7. Hit Apply and then the OK button.

From the above steps, to change Windows 10 startup sound and that of the shutdown and log off, you need fast startup disabled.

Also, you have to activate the sounds from Windows Settings and the Windows Registry.

Once you do these, you can now pick a sound for the events. Note, however, that the sound you use for the Windows events must be in the WAV format.

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No startup or shutdown sound in Windows 10

Original Title: Windows 8.1 & 10 Sounds

I have never heard a startup or shutdown sound from both win 8.1 & 10.

I have enabled it , but i am able to hear the startup sound only during a restart.

Does 8.1 & 10 provide an easy startup that a XP & 7 gives,

meaning normal startup , startup sounds , simple login and getting to desktop quickly.

Windows 10 Startup is really worse, first turning on pc, manufacturer logo , windows loading screen , windows 10 loading screen , lock screen , login screen ,password , Another loading and desktop .

Cant i get an easier starup , just like in windows xp & 7 like turn on , manufacturer logo, windows loading screen , login or desktop.

Its too tough to use and adjust with Windows 10 when compared to XP & 7

Is there any solution to remove the login screen and password?

How to enable Windows 10 Startup & Shutdown sounds ?

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Thank you for bringing up your query on Microsoft Community.

Let us try the following steps, and check if it helps.

1. Open Start menu, type change system sounds and click on change system Sound from the search bar results.
2. Select Windows default (modified) from the sound scheme drop down menu.
3. Click on system notification under the program events menu.
4. Now, check the box Play windows startup sound.
5. Select the Windows shutdown from the sounds drop down menu.(You may select the different options like Windows startup or any other available options)
6. Click on Browse button and choose the location of the new sound (Which you want to set as system default sound for Windows startup).
7. Click on Apply and OK button.
8. Now restart the system and check if you are able hear the sound which you have set for the Windows startup.

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How to Play the Shutdown Sound in Windows 10

Older Windows versions were able to play a startup sound, a separate logon sound. A sound could also play when Windows logs off or when it shuts down. The user could assign all these sounds from Control Panel -> Sound. Starting with Windows 8, sounds for these events have been eliminated almost entirely. Let’s see how to play the shutdown sound in Windows 10.

Why Windows 10 doesn’t play the shutdown sound

In Windows 10, Microsoft focused on making Windows boot and shut down faster. Developers of the OS had completely removed the sounds which play at logon, log off and shutdown. Even if you assign sounds to the events for ‘Exit Windows’, ‘Windows Logon’ and ‘Windows Logoff’ or try to restore these events using the Registry, they will not play. There is the official statement from Microsoft which explains the situation.

«We removed these sound events for performance reasons. We pay a lot of attention to how quickly the machine powers on, powers off, goes to sleep, resumes from sleep, etc. As part of speeding this up, we experiment a lot with what process is in control of the startup and shutdown sounds. In an interim build of Windows 8 while it was under development, we were able to speed things up considerably by moving the shutdown sound from Explorer.exe (which is running while you’re still logged on) to Logonui.exe (which is the process that shows the «Shutting down» circle.)

However moving the shutdown sound this late started running into other problems. The code we use to play the sound (the PlaySound API) needs to read from the registry (to see what the preferences for this sound were) and from the disk (to read the .wav file), and we ran into issues where the sound was unable to play (or got cutoff halfway) because we had shut down the registry or the disk already! We could have spent time rewriting the API but we decided the safest and most performant thing to do was to eliminate the sound altogether.»

Note: The startup sound remained in Windows 10 but it is disabled by default. You need to enable it manually if required. See the following article:

Additionally, Windows 10 comes with a fast startup/hybrid boot feature. Due to this feature, when you click Shut down, it logs you out and hibernates the kernel and powers off; it doesn’t really exit Windows. When you turn on your Windows 10 device again, it resumes from hibernate and logs in again. This is different from booting after a full shut down .

In a previous article, I’ve covered how to play a sound at logon. See

Here are instructions to revive the Shutdown sound. The solution is to simply use the Windows event log system to play the sound.

The Shut Down event

We need to create a task in Task Scheduler attached to a special Shut Down event. The event we need has ID 1074 = User Initiated Shutdown, as shown in the following screenshot.

Task Scheduler is able to run tasks attached to any event, so specifying our script as the task’s action will make it play the sound every time you shut down the OS. To play the sound, we have to use PowerShell.

Method limitations

• This method only works when you know and can use credentials for an administrative user account.
• It doesn’t work if your user account has no password.
• It might not work if you have Fast Startup disabled.

Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass these limitations. The method is very tricky and doesn’t work reliable. You’ve been warned.

Play the Shutdown Sound in Windows 10

1. Open Administrative Tools.
2. Click the Task Scheduler icon.
3. In the Task Scheduler library, click on the Create Task. link on the right.
4. In Create Task dialog, fill in the Name box some meaningful text like «Play shutdown sound».
5. Set the options as follows:
   — Configure for Windows 10.
   — Run whether user is logged on or not
   — Run with highest privileges box
   
6. Switch to the Triggers tab and click on the New. button.
7. Set the event for the trigger to On an event.
8. Select System in the drop down list under Log.
9. Enter the value 1074 in the Event ID text box.
10. Switch to the Actions tab and click on the New. button.
11. In the next dialog, set the action type to Start a program.
12. In the Program box, specify powershell.exe as the program.
13. Type the next text into the Add arguments text box: -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer ‘C:\Windows\Media\Windows Shutdown.wav’).PlaySync();
14. Switch to the Conditions tab and disable the option Start the task only if the computer is on AC power.
15. Click on the OK button to create the task.
16. Type your user account password (or other administrative user account credentials).

This newly assigned sound will play when you shut down the device. For extra sound files, check out the WinSounds.com web site. It comes with a large collection of sounds for Windows.

Note: I am using the default shutdown sound file which comes with Windows 10. It is short and nice. You can use any WAV file you want. Just provide the correct path in the task.

This trick also applicable to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1.

In the comments, please tell if this method works for you or not. Please specify which Windows 10 version and build number you are running, and if you have the Fast Startup feature disabled or enabled.

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28 thoughts on “ How to Play the Shutdown Sound in Windows 10 ”

Could these be added to the tweaker? I seem to recall it does “auto-create” tasks for some stuff.

One question, to be sure : if the fast startup/hybrid boot feature is disabled, the computer makes a full shutdown.
Correct ?

It’s not working for me at all. Everytime I shutdown Windows, it would not play the sound. I’m currently running Windows 8.1 and I have Fast Startup turned on. Do I really have to turn it off (Fast Startup)?

I guess yes. There’s no harm if you try.

Windows 8.1 at least is so quick to logoff that it gives no time to play the shutdown sound or logoff sound. Maybe if there was a task or service created that delayed shutdown for 3-4 seconds until the sound played and then quickly exited, the sound will reliably play every time.

thats why they removed the sound in the first place for faster shutdown
if you invoked the sound again then i guess you will get a slower shutdown to allow the sound to play

The method plays the Minimize sound instead of Shutdown, as it should. Everything was set properly both the sounds and followed your guide.

You can set it to any other sound file.

These are great instructions, but they don’t work (at least, not in Windows 10). I tried various sound.wav files, put them in c:\Windows\media, even tried renaming them to Windows Shutdown.wav (which required changing permissions, etc.), set up MediaPlayer and followed your instructions implicitly – it didn’t work. I had previously changed the appropriate registry entries from 1 to 0 that hide the sound options. Yeah, I can play a startup sound (with the help of downloading the Startup Sound Changer), but no shutdown sounds.

I have created the scheduled task to play the selected exit sound (per the above instructions to the tee) but the sound will not play. When I open Task Scheduler and click on the task and click run, the .wav plays and the status of the task is ready. Why doesn’t it work at Shutdown and what could be wrong?

After extensive searching and trying just about everything out, here’s what works:
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Windows XP sound scheme (pop up tones and stuff)

I’ve built a little setup that installs the original XP sound files and enables shutdown, startup, logon, logoff and unlock sounds customization – Windows 10 does not allow that so I came up with a reliable workaround.

Works on all Windows 10 editions and builds (tested), including Home (does not rely on Group Policy).

Build: 18.5.2
SHA-256: 5452a1a42dddcd23b42e85e1b3596511862d3ffd0a3def1e3522803cb1eb6ba9
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Thanks for the app man, i really appriciate that. It really worked for me, but i used windows 10 default sound pack with windows 2000 startup and shutdown sound

By the gods almighty! This app is legendary. It does work as you described and just with a little bit of fiddling with Log off sound and Exit sound. For me the timing was better with putting system shutdown sound as log off sound, then it sounded natural and leaving exit windows sound blank aka (None). Thanks for the app. Its a bliss hearing startup and shutdown sounds again!

this does not work for me on windows 10 , done every thing you told me to do , when I click to make the task it tells me I don’t have permission to make it , I only have one account on my PC and I am admin with full control , please help

A little bit temperamental but otherwise it still works every now and then. The log on sound is guaranteed which is epic because now my new laptop logs on to beginning part of Receive You from Yakuza 0 when Kiryu and Majima meet for the first time !!

I tried literally EVERY method listed on this page and no Windows Exit sound plays. It plays in taskschd.msc, but not by the system. I am running Windows 10 Home (can’t find a build but it does have all the updates. Tried different sound files with no success. Winaero Tweaker needs to include something that WILL make it work.

this sort of thing where made following internet and such, so you would always thing of what you do on computer by the advertsements and not bu the custom sounds;

Is there a way to enable to Logoff sound?

Hmm. I guess it is not possible.

@Sergey Tkachenko
Thanks for the detailed article, did the trick.
Also got a question. Although shutdown would provide enough time to play the entire sound, it is somehow cut after a second or so. Is there a way I could specify a minimum duration (to match to duration of the sound) the task should run without being interrupted and shutdown?
Thank you

Turns out Windows10 has a built in but (at least for me) quite hidden option to force an already initiated shutdown to let finish specified powershell scripts.

So I ended up removing the scheduled task, but kept the original command with the arguments, and saved the line into a powershell script file, like C:\PlayShutdownSound.ps1:
powershell.exe -c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer ‘C:\Folder\shutdown.wav’).PlaySync();

Then went into the Group Policies section (gpedit.msc)
– computer configuration
– windows settings
– scripts (startup/shutdown)
– shut down
– properties
– powershell scripts
– add powershell script (browsed here for C:\PlayShutdownSound.ps1)
– run windows powershell script first

I tried this on both my custom Main PC and my Alienware M17 Laptop. Everything worked except for the Shutdown Task on my Laptop. I tried disabling and re-enabling the Fast Startup, but nothing works. Is there a way to delay the shutdown process in order for the sound to play?

Hi, how can I make the logon sound work? I’ll update you when I’ve tested it, but I’m on Build 1909 and I think I have fast boot turned on.

Didn’t work for me either, I’m afraid. I think I’ve tried just about every tweak I can find! I do have a very fast laptop, though, so that may have something to do with it! 🙂

To whoever wrote this, I found a better and more consistent alternative. Intead of doing it through Task Scheduler, I found it better to go to the Shutdown script in gpedit and do the command from there. I’m not sure which circumstances it works in, but I do know that it works for me, while the option you provided did not.

It worked for me, but to make the sound plays at the right time, i need to trigger the shutdown sound task at least once.