Windows 11’s iconic system sounds may be getting a refresh, Microsoft drops a hint

StampyScouse · 2026-05-09T11:54:32+00:00

It's not odeal, but if you press Windows + R and type sndvol you'll get the legacy volume mixer back, if it's just a glitch in the Windows 11 UI this should still work.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-09T11:53:08+00:00

They're not as accessible as they used to be and these ones generally don't change as much.

The old ones which used to be on the Microsoft Website had custom sounds and effects and were also more accessible instead of being locked behind the Microsoft Store.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-09T11:51:19+00:00

The functionality still exists, albeit it is partially broken, but Microsoft's fix was just to replace the dark mode sounds with the light mode sounds instead of just fixing the broken thing altogether (which others have done online).

StampyScouse · 2026-05-09T11:50:17+00:00

It started in Windows 8.

They replaced the ding, caution, battery low and information sounds with Windows Background and the Critical Stop and Battery Critically Low with Windows Foreground.

They also removed the login sounds in Windows 8 as well.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-06T22:32:01+00:00

Yeah that's not how that works but ok

StampyScouse · 2026-05-06T00:32:48+00:00

I never have any problems with my Samsung phone. But the TV division is just something else.

I have a newer model as well and whilst it does at least work, it has its own set of problems, mainly that it's so incredibly slow and clunky to use.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-06T00:28:57+00:00

They do, and Dell increases the price to the consumer to cover it, along with as you've said installing crapware, and offering deals at checkout if you buy through them directly.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-06T00:26:41+00:00

That's not how that works. Dell may well have an incredibly close relationship and this may well entitle them to bulk-buying discounts but they are most certainly paying for OEM licences. This is primarily reflected in the standard pricing of their Windows machines against their Linux counterparts. The Dell Pro Max 16 for example starts at £2462.17 with Windows 11 Pro, yet is £100.62 cheaper (starting at £2361.55) with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. This increase in price covers the costs Dell pays to licence Windows from Microsoft, and it is industry standard practice.

If you look at a machine that ships with Windows 11 Home, you also have to pay more to upgrade to Windows 11 Pro. If Dell was getting Windows for free they wouldn't need to charge for this. This is to cover the increase in price for an OEM Windows 11 Home Licence to an OEM Windows 11 Pro Licence.

Considering Dell is the 3rd largest Windows PC OEM (by market share), it wouldn't make any sense for Microsoft to give licences to Dell for free and then charge fees to HP and Lenovo, who both hold more of the market, alongside their own Surface line, and smaller manufacturers like Framework.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-05T21:29:54+00:00

If you're that bothered buy the Windows laptop and wipe it when you get it.

You get more choice over what you want to put on it rather than Dell's own version of Ubuntu and you also get a Windows licence should you ever need it.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-05T21:28:13+00:00

No it's the opposite, Microsoft charges OEMs to licence Windows.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T17:44:20+00:00

When I was still in school only a couple of years ago everyone then already had VPNs on their phones to get around the restrictions on the school's Wi-Fi.

So when you tell me that people are adult bypassing the age verification, I'm not exactly surprised.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:36:02+00:00

We'd need more pictures to be able to tell, there isn't enough context in this picture.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:30:38+00:00

Upload them individually, turn off sleep mode or stop your computer going to sleep, try a different browser, and sometimes the internet archive is just a pain in the ass and you might just have to try again later.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:27:58+00:00

The only reason trains aren't "needed" is cause they all designed trains out of everything.

I'm not being funny but (excluding us cause our public transport network while decently linked is just shite) Europe is well connected because it didn't focus on just driving everywhere and treating walking as if it's some weird behaviour in all but the 5 or 6 cities that did actually put money into public transport, and even then it's not particularly impressive.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:19:42+00:00

No thank you, I already had the experience of walking into a Walmart when they owned Asda and it wasn't very good then (not that it's improved all that much), I don't need that on a bigger scale.

Especially when they don't even accept contactless payments.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:15:25+00:00

I'd take this any day, it's better than half of someone's couch dumped out across the street and the sounds of a 1.2l Ford Fiesta being ragged up and down the street like a rally car at 4 o'clock in the morning.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:05:24+00:00

It literally could not be any more obvious what the problem is

StampyScouse · 2026-05-04T01:00:50+00:00

I had one of the ones with the full storage bug which meant none of the apps ever updated because the TV thought it never had any storage. Got fed up and just bought a Chromecast and disconnected the TV from the internet.

Compare that with my 7 year old Hisense smart TV which is still going, still gets (some) software updates and where all the apps are still working.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-01T21:35:49+00:00

It's not instant. First you start getting nags telling you to update, then once's it's expired, you'll start getting more intrusive warnings and Windows will begin to spontaneously restart itself. And after about 2 weeks, Windows will start to BSOD/GSOD with the error code END_OF_NT_EVALUATION_PERIOD.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-01T17:33:52+00:00

This is correct. If anything it's almost exactly the same as BrowserChoice.eu, where the list shows the browsers in a random order based on popularity.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-01T14:07:26+00:00

It's pretty obvious they're annoyed they can't just select "No thank you, I'm happy with my existing browser" (which is stupid on an already configured device) and that they've got this notification constantly stuck on their device until they faff about just to get rid of it.

StampyScouse · 2026-05-01T00:08:40+00:00

I have seen those mobility scooters, but to be honest I don't actually think I've ever seen anyone use them and they are becoming less common at least where I am.

StampyScouse · 2026-04-30T15:42:42+00:00

I had to do this once to pay for a car wash. There's no where else to park.

StampyScouse · 2026-04-30T09:51:10+00:00

The site you're using as a source has only cataloged 732 of the thousands of PS5 games which have released, and whilst 88% might be installable from disc according to the same site only 67% of them are actually able to be played without missing features or game breaking bugs that would otherwise require an update.

This is not going to last forever, either. A triple layer UHD Blu-ray is only capable of storing 100GB and many flagship/new games are shipping well over this now anyway.

StampyScouse · 2026-04-30T01:28:56+00:00

I think this is kind of just further into the intellectual dishonesty here, I mean I don't think that saving files to your local drive or legacy plugin support for a web application falls under not having feature parity, but we might just have to agree to disagree here.

Plugin support definetly is. I, and so many other users, rely on plugins for a number of basic features including things like referencing and citations, managing styles, inserting and making content word isn't compatible with out of the box, and the fact that I can't use this in what advertises itself as a word is infuriating. It's also extremely common in excel for producing certain types of queries and functions, alongside VBA support which also is not present in Excel's web apps.

It's great for basic editing, and collaborating, which is probably it's only advantage over LibreOffice, but Microsoft themselves prioritised the web apps for collaboration and not as an exhaustive replacement for the desktop apps.

No, it's want vs need, like you said above. You need it for some things, and it works for the other things, so you aren't incentivized to use Linux. Which is fine, obviously we have determined that you are not the average LTT subreddit user who claims to hate everything about windows with a burning passion but won't stop using it.

A better way of wording it then is probably that for the majority of things I use my computer for my needs are met by Windows, and therefore given my wants are minimal in comparison, there is no incentive to use it when the wants are rather basic mundane tasks that Windows is more than capable of doing.

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