Windows 7 (7057) has twenty-six new logon and logoff sounds

Summary: Maybe I'm just being a "tad slow" today but I've only just realised with my new theme on Windows 7 also has new sounds too. After some digging and searching, I found a whole bunch of new logon and logoff sounds, as well as entire sets of system sounds.

Maybe I'm just being a "tad slow" today but I've only just realised with my new theme on Windows 7 also has new sounds too. After some digging and searching, I found a whole bunch of new logon and logoff sounds, as well as entire sets of system sounds.

I'm going to stop writing about Windows 7 for a while - it's a great operating system, but writing about it is starting to grate on me a little bit.

Updated: title, build is 7057 not 7056.

Topics: Windows, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software

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  • that is exactly what we need in the new OS

    With a microphone attached to your computer you can record gozzilion of gozzilions of new sounds for any event in your OS. Who needs it? Why is it a TECHNICAL news worth writing about?
    pupkin_z
  • Updated title - 7057, not 7056

    Sorry.
    zwhittaker
  • RE: Windows 7 (7056) has twenty-six new logon and logoff sounds

    Yes it has some new sounds which are OK I suppose BUT

    1) Pictures in Paintshop Pro X2 printed in 7000; they do not in 7057

    2) Why has MS removed the function whereby one can reduce the size of the Desktop picture? It was in 7000 it is not in 7057.

    I only installed 7057 last night...

    Paul
    VAR1016@...
  • RE: Windows 7 (7056) has twenty-six new logon and logoff sounds

    Come on, Microsoft. Cut the crap.

    Make an operating system that's fast, lean, easy on memory and disk space, and cheap. I'm not interested in a bloated, whale loaded down with useless, memory hogging digital bling.

    Maybe an new version of Windows 2000 might be a good idea.
    Regats
  • RE: Windows 7 (7056) has twenty-six new logon and logoff sounds

    Wow, and they say that Microsoft isn't an innovator! In my case, I only leave the startup sound enabled to verify that the soundcard driver loaded since Windows fails to do so about 10% of the time.
    abb@...
  • Is that all?

    Is this the only difference?
    I have Ultimate 7600 and I love it, but if that's all thats been added, there's no point in an upgrade...
    As for you all saying this and that, you CAN delete the system sounds you know. You can delete a lot more than you would imagine actually.
    Yes, when I install Win7 a-fresh, I spend about 1-2 hours ripping all the crap out for full blown power (64 bit) but really? What difference does it make when desktops come with hundreds of gigabytes (some even with terabytes) of storage, or solid state. If you users are concerned about Win7 and it's efficiency lagging because of some sounds playing, you REALLY need to upgrade your entire systems entirely.
    There's space for it these days so it's there. No space?
    Get an external HD, either SSD for reliability and speed or HDD for shear storage space. No one complains when Macintosh adds bullshit to their OS. Well except me...
    Yiu Korochko