How to Enable Shutdown Sound in Windows 10?

Microsoft is dominating the PC Market since 1985 and Microsoft released a lot of good releases of windows versions like Windows XP, Windows 7, and Windows 10. Windows XP is one of the best and oldest operating system. If you are a user of Windows XP then you never forgot the windows Startup and shutdown sound. Microsoft disabled the Startup or shutdown sound from windows 8 or later by default to enhance the user experience. If you are an XP lover and you want to Enable Shutdown Sound in Windows 10 then this article will help you to enable it.

Enable Shutdown Sound in Windows 10:

Note: Modifying the Registry is risky, and it causes irreversible damage to your OS Installation Follow the steps correctly. Friendly advice Before Modifying Registry Creating Restore Point is recommended.

Open the Run command by pressing Windows + R and type Regedit and hit enter. This will open the Registry editor console.

Now Navigate to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\EventLabels\WindowsLogoff

From the Left-hand side click on the WindowsLogoff Registry key, from the right-hand side you may see the ExcludeFromCPL DWORD.

Double click on the ExcludeFromCPL DWORD and modify the value from 1 to 0.

This will enable the Windows Logoff option in the sound settings.

Download XP Sound:

Now you need to download the XP sound in the .wav format, you can google it or directly click on this link to download the XP shutdown sound.

Setting Sound in sound settings:

Open run command by pressing Windows + R and type control mmsys.cpl sounds this command will open the Sound settings.

Click on the Sounds tab and under Program Events scroll down until you see Windows Logoff.

Click on the Windows Logoff and then click on the browse button to choose the .wav format XP shutdown sound which we download before.

Click on Apply and OK. Restart the system once and check.

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