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I've been very naughty... my uncle gave me his laptop for repair. Tis now running beautifully with his new battery, Windows 7, a new Office install but he is a Star Wars fan so I've been bad.
It took me a little while to work out how to replace the Windows startup sound with Darth Vader saying "What is thy bidding my master?" but it is now working [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif] [smiley=evil.gif]
Why did M$ make it so hard to do this in Win 7?

Probably because people started doing this? 

But they're so much fun. So I've had to edit DLLs and all sorts to make this work. I just wish I could see my uncles face when Darth's voice comes out of his laptop on boot-up. He'll be shocked and then probably rolling around on the floor wetting himself

Wait, you had to edit a .DLL to get the startup sound changed? good god what where microsoft thinking.

Its something I find really annoying with Windows 7.
Its not possible to change the default start-up sound, with something of your choice.
It could be done easily on previous versions of Windows; eg Win XP, etc, but not Windows 7, for some strange reason!
A Google search indicated that it was difficult/impossible.

I used to have lots of fun applying different start-up sounds in Win XP!

Paul.