For starting and closing Windows XP, that is. I'm running 98 and have a system that I wrote myself (a simply dos-based program, incorported in "autoexec.bat"), so that it chooses at random, from a selection I set up myself, startup and closing sounds. My wife and daughter have both recently migrated to XP, though, and want something similar on their machines. Does anyone have any ideas on how it could be set up, so that every time you boot the computer it has a different startup sound, chosen randomly from a group that you have selected? And a different sound for when you shut down Windows? And while we're at it, is there any way to do something similar with wallpaper? Being XP-ignorant, I admit I know very little about this, so complete, precise explanations would be appreciated. Thanks.
I have 98, not XP, but MM does and I do believe altering the startup sounds are in the same area...control panel.
Oh, I know how to alter them. What I want is something that alters them automatically, every time you restart the computer. A setting, a program, or something like that.
you don't need it to be in autoexec.bat - as long as it runs automatically, at some point. For that, all you have to do is drag the icon of the batch file to the 'startup' folder you seen in your start menu. I don't know what your program actually does, but all it has to do is select a random sound from a list and copy that over the current startup-sound (without triggering a confirm box). The first time you still get your old sound, but by the time the startup is complete, the file has been changed and the next time the sound is different.
