{"id":472,"date":"2007-08-28T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/how-to-changing-the-windows-vista-startup-sound\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:17:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:17:02","slug":"how-to-changing-the-windows-vista-startup-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/how-to-changing-the-windows-vista-startup-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Changing the Windows Vista Startup Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of the many controversies surrounding Windows Vista, probably the most infamous (and pathetic) issues brought to the table is the Windows Vista Startup sound – and how to get rid of it. If  you were anywhere but under a rock during the beta, it’s impossible to have missed the posts going back and forth<\/a> by haters and supporters of Windows Vista’s new startup sound – which, like almost everything else in Windows Vista, doesn’t even always work.<\/p>\n

This sound isn’t the one you get on startup (which is still there, just like in previous versions of Windows), but rather the one that plays right when Windows finishes loading – and you can’t do a thing about it. In our opinion, it’s a quite nice sound, but unfortunately you don’t get to hear it (most of the time) if you have a analog\/digital sound card with analog being the default. At any rate, for those of you that don’t like it, chin up: it can be changed!<\/p>\n

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  1. Grab reshacker<\/a> (or XN Resource Editor<\/a>, if you prefer), they’re both invaluable utilities that you should always keep at your side when you want to hack just about any program or feature on Windows.<\/li>\n
  2. Copy C:\\Windows\\System32\\imageres.dll to another location, and open it with reshacker.<\/li>\n
  3. Open the WAVE subfolder, and select the appropriate localized resource as follows:<\/li>\n
  4. If you’re using XN Resource Editor, you don’t need to worry about this step: skip on to number 5.<\/em> Each language has a different code in Windows; in this example, we’re working on a United States English copy of Vista, which has language code 1033. Referring to the list of language codes<\/a>, German would be 1031, and Spanish is 1034. Open the subfolder pertaining to your particular language code.<\/li>\n
  5. You need to replace resource name (number?) 5051 with a Wave file<\/strong> of your own – resource 5051 is the default Windows Vista startup sound, and you’re going to replace it with your own custom (wave!<\/strong>) file.<\/li>\n
  6. Save and exit.<\/li>\n
  7. Backup the original \\Windows\\System32\\imageres.dll file, replace the existing one with your newly-modified uber-cool version, and reboot to check it out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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