Restore Logon/off + Shutdown Sounds

Works for 1709?

sweet

It allows you to change the startup sound, which is a doodle and doesn't need either events or an external program to achieve. The login/logoff and shutdown sound entries were removed in W10, and no amount of registry changes will bring them back. You either need to set them up as Events or use the program in the opening post to get them back; Winaero can only bring back the Startup sound.

^^^

too right

Thanks fo backing it up. Really strange, that Reddit link was still working two weeks ago (I tried using the program for my W2G W8 install) but yeah, the author's account's been deleted, prob because of his username handle.

It should be noted that you need Windows Media Player 12 installed, it won't play the sounds if you have an older version like WMP9 in my case for example, it also probably won't play it if you don't have WMP at all.


If I paste the code into Powershell, it complains about the Registry path


Also, for people going for an XP (Windows XP played the shutdown sound when logging off, startup sound when logging on, logon sound when unlocking the session, and logoff sound when locking the session) look (or people who just want to use a different unlocking sound from the logging on one), you'll need to create a 3rd task that has "on workstation unlock of (your session)" as its trigger and put

-c Add-Type -AssemblyName presentationCore;$mediaPlayer = New-Object system.windows.media.mediaplayer;$mediaPlayer.Volume = 1;do {$mediaPlayer.open((Get-ItemPropertyValue -path """HKCU:\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\WindowsUnlock\.Current\""" -Name '(default)'));$songDuration = $mediaPlayer.NaturalDuration.TimeSpan.TotalMilliseconds}until ($songduration);$mediaPlayer.Play();Start-Sleep -Milliseconds $songDuration
as the PowerShell action thing, then obviously, you'll need to edit your logon task and remove the "on workstation unlock of (your session)" trigger from it.

If it can help, here's the code I would use for my Powershell tasks before I saw this thread, which does work with WMP9 installed on my end.

-c (New-Object Media.SoundPlayer 'C:\PathToTheSound\sound.wav').PlaySync();

Does this work on Windows 11?

So does this really work or not, I saw that people where having problems.