This is thanks to the “Fast Boot” feature in Windows 11, which essentially hibernates your PC, shutting it down but keeping your session, drivers and so-on dormant in the hibernation file, ready to spring back into action as soon as you turn your PC on.įast boot can speed up boot time, though its effects aren’t significant and some people have even reported that it slows down their boot time. You’ve probably noticed by now that when you shut down your Windows 11 PC, you can magically turn it on again by pressing any key on your keyboard instead of the Power button on your machine. I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants Windows to greet me with a nice jingle, so this tutorial will show you how to bring back a startup sound to Windows 11 (or Windows 10) and (if you so wish) replace it with quite possibly the best OS startup sound of them all.Īlso read: 16 of the Best Sources for Calming Sounds, White Noise & Rain Switch Off Fast Boot I thought it’d be simple to use the nostalgic noise as my Windows 11 startup sound but was unpleasantly surprised to find that it’s actually deceptively difficult.
There’s something magical about the Windows 95 startup sound (maybe owing to the fact that it was created by the great Brian Eno).
