{"id":504,"date":"2025-06-16T13:25:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/microsoft-accidentally-swapped-windows-11s-startup-sound-with-vistas\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:25:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:25:35","slug":"microsoft-accidentally-swapped-windows-11s-startup-sound-with-vistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/microsoft-accidentally-swapped-windows-11s-startup-sound-with-vistas\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11\u2019s startup sound with Vista\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you\u2019ve been having flashbacks to 2007 while using your PC over the past few days, you\u2019re not alone. Microsoft has mistakenly replaced Windows 11\u2019s boot sound \u2014 in test versions of the OS \u2014 with the startup chime from Windows Vista.<\/p>\n

Windows testers started noticing the issue<\/a> shortly after Microsoft released its latest Dev Channel build of Windows 11 on Friday afternoon. The .WAV file for the bootup sound, which is stored inside imageres.dll, had been randomly replaced with the Windows Vista startup sound in preview build 26200.5651.<\/p>\n

Microsoft quickly acknowledged<\/a> the mistake, and added a line to its release notes<\/a> for the latest Dev Channel build. \u201cThis week\u2019s flight comes with a delightful blast from the past and will play the Windows Vista boot sound instead of the Windows 11 boot sound,\u201d says the Windows Insider team. \u201cWe\u2019re working on a fix.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not clear how such a mistake even happened, but Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows Insider team joked on X<\/a> that he \u201cwent in and had some fun with the sound files in Windows and thought folks needed a blast from the past,\u201d before confirming that it was actually just a bug<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps one of Microsoft\u2019s Windows engineers was reminiscing too much about Windows Vista, in a week when Microsoft made it clear<\/a> it thinks Apple\u2019s new Liquid Glass design bears some resemblance to its Aero Glass look in Windows Vista.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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