Get Windows Vista Sounds for Windows XP
First of sorry for being away for more than a week, I was busy with work both personal as well as professional which left me little time to blog. But now the busy period is almost over and I can return to blogging again :-). Well Sometime back I had written an article that described in detail how you can make your Windows XP PC look like Windows Vista.
This is just an extension of that post but this will make you Windows XP PC sound like Windows Vista.
There is a simple way in which you can replace the XP sounds with those of Vista.
Download
Download the Windows Vista sound pack and unzip it to a folder.
Backup
Navigate to C:\Windows\Media folder and make a backup of all the WAV files from that folder, so that you can rollback your changes if you are not satisfied with the Vista sounds.
Copy New Files
Copy all the new files from the unzipped folder to the C:\Windows\Media folder.
That’s it now your Windows XP PC will not only look like Windows Vista it will also sound like one :-). Have fun.
Do let me know your thoughts through your valuable comments.
Technorati tags: windows vista sounds, windows xp, windows, sounds
indyank
October 17th, 2007 at 8:11 pm #
Welcome back…you don’t have to feel sorry…
Guess it is cool to make XP look and sound like vista than to move to vista which may still need time to stabilize…moreover many applications and tools are not yet vista compatible…
after all XP took a long time(guess more than 1.5 years) to stabilize with numerous patches….
if you still want to have the vista looks and sounds for your PC…this is the coolest trick to apply…
Technobuzz.net
October 18th, 2007 at 8:35 am #
Nice post. thanks
keith
October 21st, 2007 at 7:56 am #
Hey indyank thanks, yups i would not upgrade to vista for me xp is the best one right now have been using it for 5 years now
Bob
February 7th, 2008 at 12:37 am #
Love the new sounds, refreshing, but still love XP, have not tried Vista but have heard a lot of problems exist.
Tom
February 26th, 2009 at 9:51 am #
These are NOT Vista Sounds…
Brad
May 20th, 2009 at 11:26 am #
This is NOT the vista sound kit.
Treyz
June 25th, 2009 at 7:40 pm #
I agree with the last two posts above me.