Windows Startup and Shutdown sounds do not play!

[krazzy]

This always happens after a few days of reinstalling Windows. Initially both the sounds play while starting up or shutting down. But later they stop playing. All the other sounds play perfectly. Recently I've changed the default Windows XP sounds to the Vista sounds given in Vishal Gupta's excellent tutorial to make XP look like Vista. But still the startup and Shutdown sounds fail to play however others play perfectly. What has gone wrong?

[ThinkFree]

Try setting windows default sound scheme in sound and audio properties

[krazzy]

Tried that. All the sounds play except the Startup and Shutdown ones. Dunno whats wrong.

[ravi_9793]

Those startup and shutdown file sound file may have corrupt.

check those files in c:\windows\media folder.

[Vishal Gupta]

Its a known bug in Windows XP. It happens when you disable default system beep using some tweaking software or manually.

Open regedit and goto:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound

In right-side pane, change value of "Beep" to "yes". Restart your system and you should be able to listen those sounds again.

[krazzy]

Ahhh... Finally. Yes I've disabled those annoying beeps through the registry. They sound horrible and always startle me when I've got the earphones on. Guess I'll have to turn them ON though. Is there anyway to replace that annoying sound with something less annoying? BTW thanks for helping VG.