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Collection year: 2000
Windows 2000 Sounds
“The familiar sounds of starting up, signing in, and clicking around.”
- Collection year
- 2000
- Audio files
- 6
- Sound groups
- 1
- Peak era
- 2000 version collection
- Company
- Microsoft
- Category
- Internet Sounds
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Listen to the Sounds
6 familiar sounds. Click a track to listen.
Original recordings: Microsoft.
About the Collection
Revisit 6 familiar Windows 2000 sounds, selected from MCPlayer2015's Windows audio archive. A compact collection of the desktop chimes and everyday alerts that bring this era back. Select a track to open the retro player.
These cues sit on the professional side of the Windows family. They accompany the ordinary boundaries of a session and the small events that happen while working, giving a familiar graphical desktop an audible layer without demanding that every event be read on screen.
Comparing the set with Windows Me helps separate two products associated with the same turn-of-the-century period. Their place in memory may overlap, but the workstation and home-computer contexts were not identical.
Things You Probably Forgot
- This selection focuses on the default desktop sounds rather than alternate themes and sound schemes.
- The original filenames are preserved so you can recognize familiar Windows events.
The Story
- 1996 Windows NT 4.0 pairs a business-oriented system with the familiar Windows 95-style desktop.
- 2000 Windows 2000 follows as the next NT generation. Its logon, logoff, and notification tones belong to the office and workstation side of turn-of-the-century Windows.
- 2001 Windows XP brings the home and professional Windows lines together on the NT foundation. Its arrival also marks the next chapter in the sound of the Windows desktop.
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