Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful. In order to perform a full shutdown in 8.1, you have to right-click on the Start Button, choose Shut down or sign out and then click on Shut down.' 'you have to perform a full shutdown in Windows 8 in order to hear the login sound when you startup.
How to play the logon or startup sound in Windows 8.1 or Windows 8Ĭhange Windows Startup and Shutdown Sounds However, kindly note that as mentioned in both shared links, only a a full shut down will bring back the startup sound which is different than simply choose Shutdown option: However, there are options we can change via either control panel or the GPO to enable the startup sound.Ĭontrol Panel -> Sounds tab and check the option 'Play Windows Startup sound' Build and apply themed sets of sounds for all your system and application alerts. By default, the startup sound has been removed to improve the boot time and performance since windows 8.
