Vista/7/8 has the great virtue of simplicity, as opposed to the striving grandiosity of most of them
― Aimless, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
i agree with crut's list
― brimstead, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 04:18 (eight years ago) link
I must have started my Windows 98 PC 10,000 times (including crashes) and that sound barely evokes anything for me. Maybe it wasn't connected to speakers.
Very hard to judge these by aural criteria. They just make me think of the computer I had at the time. My XP computer was next to a sunny window and I made some good music on it, so that's the sound that makes me feel best.
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link
XP9895
― niels, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
The rising 'ba ba baa' at the end of y2k is the worst. NT is hilarious.
Still cracks me up that the song they chose to promote win 95 had the lyric 'you make a grown man cry'.
― ledge, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
95nt98vista20003.1xp
i never had an nt install on any of my computers, so i missed that sound. how badass is that tho. its like you're turning on a spaceship. (95 is all time though)
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
XP for me, although, like Eyeball Kicks, I suspect this is less about the sound, and more about positive feelings toward the golden era of mid-2000s computing.
― it me, Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:42 (eight years ago) link
i associate the xp sound with the speaker/headphone volume being too loud and scaring me/hurting my ears. the best ones start quiet and get louder like 95.
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/08/windows-startup-sounds-transformed-amazing-ambient-music/
― more side eye than a Picasso (snoball), Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 31 August 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
totally XP
― rip van wanko, Monday, 31 August 2015 01:08 (eight years ago) link
vista usually crashes before I get to the startup sound
― Lee626, Monday, 31 August 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
Windows 2000 is pretty. My first laptop had it but I don't remember that sound at all.
3.1 sucks, just like the OS itself.
― Lee626, Monday, 31 August 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
I like the vista sound! I'd never heard it before.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 31 August 2015 09:57 (eight years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
TA DAAAAAAAAAAAAA
― I checked Snoops , and it is for real (Trayce), Tuesday, 1 September 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
http://computersaresadtoo.tumblr.com/post/138362535171/xp98-remix
― 龜, Monday, 22 February 2016 12:09 (eight years ago) link