In Windows Vista, Boot.ini is gone. ... Carl Siechert, Craig Stinson, and I explain the process in detail in Chapter 2 of Windows Vista Inside Out; here's the short version.

Microsoft is getting ready to release its new Windows Vista operating system. The system will come with a new start-up sound, the morning greeting for millions of workers every day.

As spotted by XenoPanther on X, the Windows Vista noise has made a return in Windows 11's Canary branch. It's a little weird, given how the Dev and Beta builds got a fix for this weird bug, and the ...

Microsoft is hoping Windows 7 will succeed where Vista failed. ... The whole startup process for Windows 7 up to the appearance of Bing takes 14.5 seconds.

Windows Vista vs. Mac OS X: The Startup Sound Debate Writing for eWeek, David Morgenstern explores the surprisingly complex thinking that went into Microsoft's new "sound experience" in Windows ...

As far as Windows 11 bugs go, this one is pretty fun, though one has to wonder how the sound file from Windows Vista ended up in a Windows 11 build. Naturally, this has led to many believing that ...

Microsoft has mistakenly replaced its Windows 11 boot sound with the chime from Vista. It’s a bug that will be fixed in the latest preview builds of the OS.