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Windows XP Shutdown
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About the Windows XP Shutdown sound
The descending sigh that meant the school computer room was closing. Windows XP's shutdown cue is the quietest thing in an otherwise confident audio set, a gentle resolution downward engineered to feel like an ending rather than an error. Set against the startup fanfare everybody quotes, it is the half nobody mentions and everybody recognises. XP hung around in offices and classrooms well past its official retirement, which means this handful of notes closed out more than a decade of homework, LAN parties and Solitaire.
OriginThe shutdown sound from Windows XP (2001).
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- #windows-xp
- #shutdown
- #nostalgia
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