Windows Startup Sound Remixes

13 Responses (Add) | Sunday, July 29th, 2007 at 11:06pm

In between getting rickrolled by Ben Gold (ricktroll?), the chat roomer “hellkine” passed along a rather interesting remix. I’m getting to the point of fearing what will be on the other end of any YouTube URL, but this one turned out to be generally interesting. If you thought the Windows XP startup sound sounded anything but seriously spectacular, maybe you’re not really listening?

Rather, maybe you were waiting for a better interpretation of the theme? I’m almost tempted to extract the music from the following videos and save them as MP3s (for posterity).

Could you have done this any better?

“vbognot626″ (Vince) one-upped “hellkine” almost immediately thereafter with a link to this inspired interlude:

I wonder if either of those tunes were created on Windows?

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13 Comments

Diet Alert

November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am

From : http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/07/29/windows-startup-sound-remi xes/ At : 2007-07-30T06:06:16+0 In between getting rickrolled by Ben Gold (ricktroll?), the chat roomer “hellkine” passed along a rather interesting remix. I’m getting to the point of fearing what will be on the other end of any

Frank's World

November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am

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November 30th, 1999
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November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am

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Nick R (mabuspwns)

July 29th, 2007
at 11:09pm

Would be ironic if they were created on a mac lol.

uiop

July 29th, 2007
at 11:20pm

Chris, you can download the Windows Symphony audio version for free from the original producer here: http://www.jimofseattle.com/Music.htm

damonmx

July 30th, 2007
at 12:03am

no, maybe were created with GarageBand xD

Vince (vbognot626)

July 30th, 2007
at 1:07am

Thanks for mentioning me!

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» Remixing The Windows XP Startup Sound » InsideMicrosoft - part of the Blog News Channel

July 30th, 2007
at 9:01am

[...] Chris Pirillo posted two remixes of the famous Windows XP startup sound, the one you hear every time you turn on your computer (until you get sick of it and shut it off). [...]

ruben

August 10th, 2007
at 11:28am

that is a cool remix it makes windows xp seem cooler

Sizlopedia

September 1st, 2007
at 4:09pm

composed and mixed in Windows very own Sound Recorder utility. This video and music was originally created by ClownStaples. If that impressed you well then why don’t you take a look at the musical magic of Windows Startup sounds. Thanks toChris Pirillofor digging these up.