Originally my 486 @66mhz Gateway 2000 shipped with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, then I upgraded it way back when with the Windows 95 Upgrade CD. Just yesterday I reformatted the C:drive in Fat32 and installed Windows 95 OSR-2. I installed the Plus! stuff too. Problem is I miss some of the old Windows sounds I used to have, and wonder if anyone knows how I can get them back either with the original CD's or online? I especially like the old Windows startup and exit sounds. Not too crazy about my choices in Windows 95B. Thanks for any ideas!

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They aren't sitting in C:\Windows\Media anymore? If not, you can get them back from the Windows CD. Look in the .cab files under the Win95 folder, they should be in one of the last ones.

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Thanks for the reply. I checked the Windows 95 upgrade cd as you suggested and did find the sounds there. Apparently the sounds I remembered must have been remaining from the Windows 3.11 for workgroups that was initially installed on this Gateway. But the System CD for the Gateway is not organized at all like a Windows CD with cab files, so I suppose that ends it. :(


On Sunday, April 29, 2007 at 5:13 am, Benoit wrote:
>They aren't sitting in C:\Windows\Media anymore? If not, you can get them back from
>the Windows CD. Look in the .cab files under the Win95 folder, they should be in
>one of the last ones.

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buy a new speaker.

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You really are a hopeless case.

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I just checked my Win3.1 (not 3.11) diskettes and the only sounds they had were:

• CHIMES.WA_
• DING.WA_
• CHORD.WA_

It's 20-20 hindsight but I installed Win95 on a new drive and kept Win3.1 as a dual boot, just so I wouldn't lose anything I might later find valuable.


On Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 9:10 am, Billyray wrote:
>Originally my 486 @66mhz Gateway 2000 shipped with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups, then
>I upgraded it way back when with the Windows 95 Upgrade CD. Just yesterday I reformatted
>the C:drive in Fat32 and installed Windows 95 OSR-2. I installed the Plus! stuff
>too. Problem is I miss some of the old Windows sounds I used to have, and wonder
>if anyone knows how I can get them back either with the original CD's or online?
> I especially like the old Windows startup and exit sounds. Not too crazy about
>my choices in Windows 95B. Thanks for any ideas!

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Now it's been so long, that I don't remember how or where I got those sounds, or if they came with Window 3.11 for Workgroups. But I definitely like Window 95 OSR-2 better, other than I can't find certain sounds anymore. The Windows 95 upgrade CD disk didn't have them, and Gateway's System disk with Windows 3.11 for workgroups is in a strange layout, unlike the regular MS CD. I looked for wav files in there, but nothing that was it. I don't even know how to describe the sound. It was like lots glass tinkling in a musical way if that sounds familiar?


On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 10:05 am, dhm wrote:
>
>I just checked my Win3.1 (not 3.11) diskettes and the only sounds they had were:
>

>
• CHIMES.WA_
  >
• DING.WA_
  >
• CHORD.WA_
  >

>It's 20-20 hindsight but I installed Win95 on a new drive and kept Win3.1 as a dual
>boot, just so I wouldn't lose anything I might later find valuable.
>
>
>

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Try these to get started:

• www.meanrabbit.com/wavs10325/effects2.zip -- 1.4MB .ZIP file of .WAV files with many of breaking glass
• www.thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs -- Index of sites with free .WAV files
• members.fortunecity.com/groovymidifiles/Songs -- Midi files of R&R oldies. Karaoke for your computer.
• www.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top -- My email client doesn't burble "YOU'VE GOT MAIL!!!" but my receptionist Crystal respectfully says, "Sir,, Messages await your attention." This page has a free text to .WAV converting function for private use.

Have fun.


On Tuesday, May 29, 2007 at 5:28 pm, Billyray wrote:
>Now it's been so long, that I don't remember how or where I got those sounds, or
>if they came with Window 3.11 for Workgroups. But I definitely like Window 95 OSR-2
>better, other than I can't find certain sounds anymore. The Windows 95 upgrade CD
>disk didn't have them, and Gateway's System disk with Windows 3.11 for workgroups
>is in a strange layout, unlike the regular MS CD. I looked for wav files in there,
>but nothing that was it. I don't even know how to describe the sound. It was like
>lots glass tinkling in a musical way if that sounds familiar?

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