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How to play a custom audio message on windows startup

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Up to Windows 7, there used to be a sound that the PC used to play after the completion of the booting process. But the later versions of the Windows operating systems have stopped playing the audio at the startup. If you are using one of those operating systems and would like to have that sound back, don’t worry, there is a simple process where you can play a custom audio message on startup. I am here to explain to you the detailed process in a few simple steps.

• First of all you need to create a Visual Basic script using Notepad, for that just open the Notepad in your PC and copy-paste the line below

dim speech
welcome=”Welcome to your PC”
set speech=CreateObject(“sapi.spvoice”)
speech.speak welcome

Here “Welcome to your PC” is the custom audio message that you can replace with any other message that you wish to play while startup
• Now save that file with any name that can be recognized of its purpose and use the extension .vbs
• Try double-clicking it and it should play your custom message
• Now you need to move this file to the Windows startup folder, to do that, open the run command and type shell: startup in the box and click on Ok which will open a new window
• Finally, copy and paste the file to this folder

That is it, you are done and on your next Windows startup, you will hear the custom audio message that you have set.

How To Get A Message Displayed During Windows Startup

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Earlier we have learned about the process of setting up for getting a custom audio message on Windows startup, but today in this piece of article, let us go through the process of setting up in order to get a text message displayed on the screen during the startup of your PC.

If you use a company-owned PC, you may have seen a legal notice displayed before you sign in to Windows. Here’s how you can do the same thing on your own PC and display a message with any text you want.

How To Display A Message On Windows Startup

  • First, you need to open the Registry editor, you can do this by typing ‘regedit’ in the search
  • Open the Registry editor you find in the search results and there choose Grant permissions options
  • Now using the bar on the left side of the window navigate to
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
  • You can find two values named ‘legalnoticecaption’ and ‘legalnoticetext’ on the right side pane of the window.
  • Double click on the legalnoticecaption option
  • Now in the Value data field of the opened window, just enter the text that would like to see on the screen while your Windows startup and click on Ok.
  • Legalnoticetext value is the actual text field which is placed below the legalnoticecaption field which is the title. But, in this case, the title itself is a message. So you can leave it blank or you can even fill them both with the title and text if you want
  • Now just close everything and return to the desktop. Then restart your computer to witness the message that you have set up before displayed on the screen. You can change or remove the message from the Registry editor if you wish to.

That is it, just try these simple steps and get the message you want to be displayed on your screen.