i have been trying to get a windows startup/shutdown sound to play, i couldn't get the sounds to play so i asked on Microsoft, here is the link https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cannot-change-windows-start-up-sound/8bbcb0a0-1402-4f1e-b080-9c8d526bc205
and i was told that its not possible. well too bad because i am not going to stop there, so i went to local group policy editor on windows 10 where you can choose scripts to run during shutdown and start up. i then wrote a very small PowerShell command with the file name of "shutdown.ps1" the code inside of shutdown.ps1 is
start "C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown\TADA.wav"
this file is located in the C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Shutdown directory along with the TADA.wav file that it plays when it shuts down.
now the issue i am having is that when windows is shutting down, its ending all processes so it does not play the sound. what can i do to change that?
I'm pretty new to all of this and am very grateful for any input you can give.
thanks in advance,
Devin
From How to Change the Windows 10 Logoff, Logon, and Shutdown Sounds in Windows 10:
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While you can still customize what sounds sounds play for most OS events, Windows 10 hid shut down, logoff, and logon from view. They’re still around, though. You just need to make a few mild changes in the Windows Registry to get them back.
Add the Actions Back to the Sound Control Panel by Editing the Registry
To add the shutdown, logoff, and logon actions back to the menu in the Sound Control Panel app, you just need to make a few little tweaks in the Windows Registry.
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Open the Registry Editor by hitting Start and typing “regedit.” Press Enter to open Registry Editor and then give it permission to make changes to your PC.
In the Registry Editor, use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels
You’re going to be making one small change in each of three different subkeys inside that EventLabels key. First, we’ll tackle the shutdown sound or, as Windows likes to call it, System Exit. Under the EventLabels key on the left side of Registry Editor, select the SystemExit subkey. On the right side, double-click the ExcludeFromCPL value.
Note that by default, the value is 1, meaning that the action is excluded from the Control Panel. Change the value to 0 and then click “OK.”
Next, you’re going to make exactly the same change in two other subkeys inside the EventLabels key: WindowsLogoff and WindowsLogon. Head into each of those folders, open the ExcludeFromCPL value inside, and change the value from 1 to 0.
No need to restart Windows. You can go ahead and test your changes right away. Open up the Sound Control Panel app by right-clicking the speaker icon in your Notification Area and selecting “Sounds.” 1
You should now see the new actions (Exit Windows, Windows Logoff, and Windows Logon) available in the selection window and you can assign whatever sounds you like to those actions.
If, for whatever reason, you want to hide those actions from the Control Panel again, just head back into Registry Editor and change each of those ExcludeFromCPL values back to 1.
1: On my machine, to get to the Sounds control panel, I had to go into the Settings, choose "Personalization", then "Themes", then `Sounds".
UPDATE:
And indeed, all three sound events show up in my Sounds control panel once I re-enable them in the Registry. However, I tried assigning audio files to them, and although Windows remembered the assignments, nothing played when invoking those actions.
So, I guess the playback functionality is simply not implemented for those events anymore. This seems to be confirmed in your discussion with a Microsoft Insider on answers.microsoft.com (with an 89% upvote rate of 143K replies, I would think he knows what he's talking about):
In Windows 10 there is no way to change the Windows Startup Sound, that sound is set permanently in a DLL in Windows, it is not an audio file like the other system sounds, and even when you turn on the Startup sound on that dialog, sometimes the startup sound will play and other times it will not, this is a known bug in Windows 10, which seems to have been fixed in Windows 11
Windows10 does not support a shutdown sound like previous versions of Windows, you wil find many methods posted online, sadly, none of them work.
I'm wondering if there's a good way to automate changing my display configuration in Windows 10?
I have 3 monitors attached, and I find myself wanting to configure my system in one of 3 ways:
All monitors set up to extend the desktop.
Only my central (largest) monitor enabled, others both disabled.
Only my right-most monitor enabled, others both disabled (I think hook up a spare HDMI cable on my center monitor to my laptop, and the monitor automatically switches to that input).
Manually, this involves opening the Display Settings panel, selecting the monitors, and either marking them as "Disconnected" or "Extend desktop on this display".
Is there some nice, scripting-friendly way to do this? I'm more comfortable doing this sorta thing on Linux, where I'd whip up a quick shell script to call the xrandr command a few times, or something like that...
I'm looking for a way to detect if the user is using small icons :
I couldn't find anything in GetSystemMetrics \ SystemParametersInfo.
I tried to use the "Running applications" window's size :
it works fine when the taskbar's orientation is bottom\top, but when it's left\right this window takes the entire taskbar width.
Any ideas?
Deskbands are not quite dead on Windows, but they are on life-support. First make sure if you don't want to take advantage of thumbnail toolbars, ITaskbarList3::ThumbBarXxx() functions.
I'm not aware of an api to read back the button size setting. There's a backdoor you can use, these configuration settings are always saved to the registry. Run SysInternals' ProcMon utility and change the setting. On my machine (Windows 8), out popped this registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced\TaskbarSmallIcons
That almost surely works, I can't guarantee anything beyond Windows 8 of course.
The accepted answer to this question explains how to create a "window group" in Terminal.app so that you can open a set of windows with predefined tabs executing predefined commands in predefined positions.
That's great, but it doesn't appear to play nice with Mission Control. I save my window group with the windows spread out across different desktops in Mission Control, but when I restore the window group they all pile up on top of each other in the desktop I'm currently using!
How can I get a Window Group to restore the windows to the desktops from which I saved them?
Thanks!
Doesn't look like separating application windows by desktop is an option anymore; not according to this MacForums thread.
There's an app called TotalSpaces that claims to restore pre-Mission Control window grouping, but it's a paid app so I haven't tried it.
You might be better off asking this question on AskDifferent or SuperUser...
I want to be able to create a shortcut, hotkey, anything, to be able to switch between 2 (or more?) different screen resolutions (only on one of my screens - I work with win7 extended screen layout).
I've tried HotKey Resolution Changer v1.4 from http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/17604/change-desktop-resolution-with-a-keyboard-shortcut/ ,
but it works for me only for the first change and then crashes.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
I had stumbled on this issue when starting to use KVM with Windows 7. It keeps forgetting the resolution and it became a hassle to change it. Anyway, to the point:
Download Nircmd from here, extract it somewhere on your PC and create a desktop shortcut using Nircmd itself:
nircmd.exe cmdshortcut "~$folder.desktop$" "800x600x24" setdisplay 800 600 24
This will create a shortcut that will set the display mode to 800x600x24bit colors.
Hope it helps and not too late.
Asaf