Complete Windows Sound Themes

Sound themes make Windows 7 a unique experience for your ears. You are bored of the default system sounds? Then replace them with sounds of your favorite TV series, movie, video games or even cars. This is the ultimate list of Windows 7 sound themes!

Sounds: Quick Links

Tip: All of the sound themes are included in our Windows 7 themes. So, that means the sound theme will be automatically installed on your system and you don’t have to apply each sound separately.

Comics/TV/Movies Sounds:

Video games sounds:

Downloads & Customization

Downloads:
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Change Windows 7 Sounds:
Change Windows 7 Sounds

How to change Windows 7 sounds

Important: You only need to know this if you want to customize any of the sound themes. You do NOT have to apply each sound individually, the sound themes will be automatically installed once you double-click on the .themepack files that you can download from our site.

1. Step Right click on the desktop and click on Personalize

2. Step At the bottom click on the link Sounds:

3. Step Next, select the Windows 7 sound that you want to change. You will need to listen to each of them to identify what they are good for, most of them explain themselves. So, select Default Beep for example and then click on Browse:

4. Step Find a sound that might be a good replacement for the default beep and then click on Apply. Make sure to save your sound theme under a different name:

Download Windows 7 Sound Themes

All of our top Windows 7 themes include sound themes. So, to download our sound themes, you simply download a Windows 7 theme from our site.

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How to Customize Sounds on Windows 10 (And Where to Download Them)

Customize the sounds on Windows 10, find new sounds themes and schemes, and improve the sound quality of your computer.

Like any operating system, Windows 10 is full of little sounds and jingles. They’ll let you know if you make an error, receive a notification, complete a download, or when any other number of events occur.

Many people never bother to change their sound scheme. However, it’s quite straightforward to do.

We’re going to show you how to customize the sounds on Windows 10, how to find new sounds themes and schemes, and how to improve the sound quality on your machine.

Customize Audio Using Windows 10 Sound Settings

Firstly, let’s look at how you customize the audio using Windows 10 sound settings.

Despite an increasing number of options jumping over to the Settings app with every new release of the operating system, the menu for customizing sounds is still part of the Control Panel.

You can access the menu in two ways. Either head to Settings > System > Sound > Related settings > Sound control panel or open the Control Panel and click on Sound.

Whichever method you use, you should end up with the same window on your screen. Once it’s open, click on the Sound tab.

Windows 10 only comes with two native sound schemes: Windows Default and No Sounds. When you download more schemes and themes, they will become available in the Sound Scheme drop-down menu.

You can change individual sounds on a case-by-case basis for each program on the computer by using the list of events in the second drop-down menu. Choose a native sound from the list or click on Browse to select another sound file on your computer.

Once you’ve made your desired tweaks, click on Save As and give your new sound scheme a name.

Note: Sounds used within the Windows 10 operating system must be in the WAV format. If you have a custom sound file saved as MP3, WMA, or something else, you need to convert it into WAV before you can use it.

Download Windows 10 Sound Themes and Schemes

If you want to create an entirely customized sound scheme in Windows 10, you will need to change each sound to the desired output manually.

Perhaps a better way of customizing sounds on Windows 10 is to use a theme. Many of the themes in the Windows 10 store also come with their own sounds. You don’t even need to use the rest of the theme (such as wallpapers, colors, and mouse cursors).

The easiest place to find themes with custom sounds is in Microsoft’s official repository. Navigate to the store on your browser and select With custom sounds from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen.

There’s a large number to choose from; they cover everything from popular games to tranquil environments.

Download the theme and double click on the file to unpack it.

Once the theme is installed on your machine, the associated sound scheme will become available in the Sound Schemes drop-down menu that we discussed previously. You can remove the visual parts of the theme in Settings > Personalization > Themes.

Some other sites offer sound schemes, but due to changes in the Windows 10 architecture, you will need to download the WAV files then change each sound individually.

Save the new WAV files into C:\Windows\media, then click on Browse in the Sounds menu to choose the corresponding output. Save the scheme once you’ve finished.

How to Improve the Sound Quality on Windows

There’s no point in having an awesome sound scheme if the audio itself resembles something recorded off the radio in the 1990s.

Luckily, there are a few ways you can customize and improve the sound quality on Windows.

Method 1: Sound Equalizer on Windows 10

Windows 10 comes with a native sound equalizer. It’s somewhat primitive but will suffice for most people.

To use the tool, locate the speaker icon in the taskbar, right-click on it, and select Sounds. Next, select the Playback tab, find your speakers, right-click on them, and choose Properties.

On the Properties window, go to the Enhancements tab and mark the checkbox next to Equalizer on the menu.

You can select the equalizer effects from the menu in the Sound Effects Properties section.

Method 2: Sound Booster for Windows 10

A sound booster lets you increase your speaker’s volume above their maximum. Unless your speaker manufacturer has supplied you with proprietary software, you won’t have access to one.

There are very few free options available. You could try the Chrome extension Volume Booster, but it will only work for audio on the browser; it is not system-wide.

Arguably the best paid app is Lefasoft’s Sound Booster. The app costs $19.95, for a single-user license.

Warning: Sound boosters should be used for audio that is too quiet when your system’s audio is already at 100 percent volume. Setting the volume too high could irreparably damage your speakers.

Method 3: Windows 10 Sound Mixer

Today, there are two separate ways to view the same information, each of which has a different layout.

To access the Volume Mixer, either:

Right-click on the speaker icon in the taskbar and select Open Volume Mixer:

Or go to Settings > System > Sound > Other Sound Options > App volume and device preferences.

If you don’t have any other apps running, you’ll only see sliders for your speakers and the system sounds. However, any other apps playing audio will also show up on here, and you can edit their volume levels individually for specific apps as a percentage of the master volume.

In the example below, you can see Netflix and Chrome are also playing audio, and thus they appear in Volume Mixer.

Other Windows 10 Sound Settings

There are a few other sound settings you should know about. In Settings > System > Sound, you can choose your input and output speakers, test your microphone, and perform troubleshooting steps.

In Settings > Ease of Access > Audio you can enable mono output and choose to show audio alerts visually.

Indeed, the Ease of Access menu is full of other settings that all users will find useful. Check out our guide to the Ease of Access options on Windows if you would like to learn more.

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I understand that you would like to know on how to get additional sound schemes for Windows 8 as by default it shows only 2 schemes “Windows Default” and “No Sounds”. Unfortunately, Windows 8 does not come with additional sound schemes as in the previous Windows Operating System. But, we can definitely download different themes with custom sounds from theWindows Themes website and then install them to get additional sound schemes for your Windows 8 computer. To do this, you may visit theWindows Themes website by clicking on this link:

You may now filter the themes to display only the themes with custom sounds. For that click on the link which says: “With custom sounds” on the left pane of the website page. You may now select your favorite themes shown in that page and then download and install them.

Once you install the new theme, it will be listed in the “Sound” settings window with the other 2 default themes. Hope this information is helpful. If you need any further assistance on this, please do get back to us. We’ll be glad to assist you.

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Ok, so we go to the Windows Themes download link you provided and download new themes. Where are they stored when we download them? They are not in the Windows/Media folder. What folder is the actual theme saved in in the Windows directory for Windows 8.1?

Really regretting this Windows 8 decision. I’m running back to Windows 7 asap.

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. Once you install the new theme, it will be listed in the “Sound” settings window with the other 2 default themes. Hope this information is helpful. If you need any further assistance on this, please do get back to us. We’ll be glad to assist you.

This is only partly correct for me it seems. Despite having multiple themes with ‘custom sounds’ via the link Vinod provided, the drop down list does not retain them unless you save the custom sounds as a new sound scheme.

So — if you want to mix and match the sound scheme with whatever wallpaper set you find.

1. Download and install the themepack (file will be a xxxxx.themepack) «with custom sounds» from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/themes
2. From the personalization screen (right-click desktop, click on personalize), click on the theme you installed
3. Click on «Sounds»
4. Click «Save As» and rename the sound scheme to something easy and recognizable (E.g. «Celtic» to «Celtic2»)

This should help populate the drop-down menu for the sound schemes.

If you’re just looking for a variety of different sound schemes, I’ll warn you that most (if not all) of the themes that feature water in some way have the same sound scheme.

You can find the old Windows 7 sound scheme files out and around the internet, but aside from manually creating your own sound scheme and saving them via the method above. I really liked the variety of schemes that were included in Windows 7, but when I upgraded to Windows 8 they all disappeared with no easy way to bring them back. Throwing shade @Microsoft for that.

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