XP's secret music !!!

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Microsoft Windows XP is playing a cool music during installation. It is a pleasant little tune that you’ve probably never heard, unless you were present when Windows was being installed on your PC. After that it’s never played again, unless you know where to look for it.

To hear what you’ve been missing, just follow these:

Make you way to C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\images and look for a file called “Title.wma” or possibly “Windows welcome music.wma”.

It is around 2.56Mb in size. Just double click the file and this will open Windows Media Player, or your defaul player and it will proceed to serenade you with a more than 5 minutes music. It’s up to you to repeat it.
CooL!!!

Smartbro’s Ups And Down: Windows XP Secret Music

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i m sure most of us here who have installed windows ourselves would have heard this but nice find

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nice music..atleast better than the current …welcome tune…thanx for the info..

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i have installed windows…xp myself more than 20-25 times ..now..but never head this tune b4..maybe ..speakers were off..or sumthin.anyway when is this sound played during installation of windows ?

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Hey eazy u tried it on rc1, cause i couldn’t any images folder in P:\Windows\System32\oobe, nor are there any such files in that folder… I’m browsing vista partition thru xp

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its for XP dude…

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HOW ??? The Sound card drivers would not have been installed during the XP setup :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

I have installed XP over 40 times on my and friends computers and - no music during setup :frowning:

@thexfactor … I will start Vista and check … but during installation there was no music :slight_smile:

EDIT: Found these in Vista…
http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/1840/vistawmajj0.th.jpg

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yes..thts what i was thinking.there are no sound drivers..so how will i here the music ??foolish MS…LOL

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ya.. me too was wondering… how come baatli had heard it then…

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Wow..nice soothing music.

Its by the name of “title.wmv” in my PC.

Nice find eazy :).

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i do vaguely remember having heard it..though not everytime during an install…perhaps if you do an upgrade over an existing install ?

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Oh got it, thanks eazy :slight_smile:

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i think i heard it on one of my older computers where the drivers for onboard sound was already included in windows xp.. actually heard the sound after setup completed or at some stage near the end of the install

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wow..very ‘enigmatic’ towards the last minute or so…

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No wonder I did not hear it … At that time I am always hitting the ESCAPE key and clicking on EXIT button and trying my best to stop the intro and get to the Desktop and get on with setting up XP :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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It’s effect of Baatli with coloured water and when he heared music, Baatli was EMPTY :tongue:

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wow awesome music there

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ya man..cool music!!!

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I heard it long time ago…

Oops, didn’t get the idea to post it here.

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Yep..superb music IMO.. i heard it long back, but not while installation.. i guess it popped up whne i weas searching for wma files on my C Drive.. :slight_smile: