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[Whiskery Ron]

Hi ,I've just been reading the question re startup music from 123everton. I find your comments re downloading sound clips from the internet very interesting,but I'm not sure how to do that ,I would be grateful if you would instruct me,Thanks in advance.Ron.

[vehelpfulguy]

The internet is full of sound clips that people have taken from movies, TV shows, comedy shows, pop songs etc.

These are normally created as wave files (extension WAV)

You can find them by searching the web with Google for all sorts of phrases like "sound clips" or "WAV" or "WAV files" and so on

Here are some sites I found with a quick search

http://www.moviesoundclips.net/

http://www.wavcentral.com/

http://simplythebest.net/sounds/WAV/events_WAV /startup_wavs.html

http://www.webstuff4free.com/sounds.asp

Once you have found the sound clip you want you can download it to your PC.

You can double click on it to "play" it.

Once I have double checked how to do it I wiil give instructions on how to change your Windows sounds (this was briefly explained in the original answer)

Slight word of warning. Some of these sites that store WAV files may have "pop ups" so be aware of that. Make sure your anti virus and firewall are working.

I am not saying you will get major problems, but some of these site can be a little annoying.

[vehelpfulguy]

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These are step by step instructions for downloading a particular sound clip, and making it your Windows start up sound. Works for Windows XP.

It is a Friends clip, but I am just using it as an example. It is also quite long but of course you can choose something shorter.

1) Go to web site below (you may get an advert you can skip over)

http://new.wavlist.com/tv/013/index.html

Here you will see 3 Friends clips (in the centre of screen)

2) The first is called frparty.wav

RIGHT click on the little diskette icon (first icon after frparty.wav)

From the menu select "Save Target As"

3) This will open a "Save As" window.

The file will be called "frparty.wav" and the default directory will be "My Documents"

4) Press "Save" to save the wav file. It will take a second or two.

Close the Download complete window.

5) Open "My Documents" and file should be there.

Double click on it to play it

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[vehelpfulguy]

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You are now going to set it as your sound

6) From the Windows Start menu open the Windows "Control Panel" window.

The next instructions assume your control panel is still in Category View (which it will be unelss you have changed it)

7) Select "Sounds, Speech and Audio devices"

8) Then select "Change the Sound Scheme"

A window called "Sounds and Audio Device Properties" is displayed.

Select the "Sounds" tab

9) In the Program Events area scroll down till you find the "Start Windows" entry.

Select the Start Windows entry

It will have a small loudspeaker next to it showing it has a sound linked to it.

(at this point you could use the drop down list to select NONE so no sound is displayed)

10) Select the "Browse" button and navigate to the "My Documents" folder.

Find the "frparty.wav" file and select it, then press OK.

11) In the "sounds" area at the bottom it should now say frparty.wav.

Press OK to save your changes

12) Now shut the PC down and start it up again.

The new sound should play.

Have fun

[Whiskery Ron]

vhg.Thanks very much for all the most helpful info,it'll keep me going for hours.Ron.