Why I Killed the Windows Startup Sound
Why the open web links it
The creator of the Windows startup sound explains why he removed it in 2010 and why it never returned.
Linked by 9 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including windowscentral.com, genbeta.com, kocpc.com.tw, chip.cz, touchit.sk.