Change Windows 7 Strart up sound

In this post techniqkick.blogspot.in is going to discuss how to change your windows startup tone in windows 7. It is very dificuilt to chage the startup tone with any other program.microsoft hase made a option for changing the windows shutdown tone and log on and log off tones.

In this post we will tell you to change the windows start up tone. For this you have to conver t your .mp3 file to .wav format. This must be smaller than 255 kb..only this method you can change your start tone and this methods works.

Here is the procedure for changing the start uup tone::::

• In Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32\imageres.dll
• Right click on the imageres.dll file, and click on Copy
• Right click on your desktop, and click on Paste
• If you have not already, then download and install Resource Hacker.
• Right click on the Resource Hacker shortcut in Start Menu - All Programs, then click on Run as administrator.
• In Resource Hacker, click on File and Open.
• Navigate to and select the imageres.dll file copy on your desktop, and click on Open.
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• In the left pane of Resource Hacker, expand WAVE, and 5080, to 1033.
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• Right click on 1033 and click on Replace Resource.
• Click on Open file with new resource
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• Navigate to and select the .wav file that you want for the startup sound, and click on Open.
• Under Resource Type, type WAVE. Under Resource Name, type 5080. Under Resource Language, type 1033. Click on the Replace button
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• Click on File and Save, then close Resource Hacker. (see screenshot below)
  On your desktop, Move and Save the imageres_original.dll file to another safe location of your choice as a backup.
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• Check to make sure that the Play Windows Startup sound is checked in Sound so that it is turned on. (see screenshot below)
• Restart the computer and boot into the System Recovery Options (WinRE) screen, then select the Command Prompt option and press enter.
  
• In the command prompt, type diskpart and press enter.
• In the command prompt, type list volume and press enter.
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• Make note of what the drive letter is for your Windows 7 partition or drive.
  
  
  
• In the command prompt, type exit and press enter.
• In the command prompt, type the command below and press enter.
• Enter the code
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• COPY /V /Y "c:\Users\username\Desktop\imageres.dll" "c:\Windows\System32"