Before Windows 10 came along, we were free to change the sounds that played when we shut down, logged off, or logged on to Windows. For some reason, Microsoft hid those sound actions from being modified in Windows 10. Here’s how to get them back.
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Windows has always been pretty good about letting you customize every nook and cranny of the OS, including what sounds played for all kinds of different system events. You can even make Windows play a sound when you toggle your Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, and Num Lock keys. While you can still customize what sounds sounds play for most OS events, Windows 10 hid shut down, logoff, and logon from view. They’re still around, though. You just need to make a few mild changes in the Windows Registry to get them back.
Add the Actions Back to the Sound Control Panel by Editing the Registry
To add the shutdown, logoff, and logon actions back to the menu in the Sound Control Panel app, you just need to make a few little tweaks in the Windows Registry.
Standard warning: Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable. This is a pretty simple hack and as long as you stick to the instructions, you shouldn’t have any problems. That said, if you’ve never worked with it before, consider reading about how to use the Registry Editor before you get started. And definitely back up the Registry (and your computer!) before making changes.
Open the Registry Editor by hitting Start and typing “regedit.” Press Enter to open Registry Editor and then give it permission to make changes to your PC.
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In the Registry Editor, use the left sidebar to navigate to the following key:
You’re going to be making one small change in each of three different subkeys inside that
EventLabels
key. First, we’ll tackle the shutdown sound or, as Windows likes to call it, System Exit. Under the EventLabels
key on the left side of Registry Editor, select the SystemExit
subkey. On the right side, double-click the ExcludeFromCPL
value.Note that by default, the value is 1, meaning that the action is excluded from the Control Panel. Change the value to 0 and then click “OK.”
Next, you’re going to make exactly the same change in two other subkeys inside the
EventLabels
key: WindowsLogoff
and WindowsLogon
. Head into each of those folders, open the ExcludeFromCPL
value inside, and change the value from 1 to 0.No need to restart Windows. You can go ahead and test your changes right away. Open up the Sound Control Panel app by right-clicking the speaker icon in your Notification Area and selecting “Sounds.”
You should now see the new actions (Exit Windows, Windows Logoff, and Windows Logon) available in the selection window and you can assign whatever sounds you like to those actions.
If, for whatever reason, you want to hide those actions from the Control Panel again, just head back into Registry Editor and change each of those
ExcludeFromCPL
values back to 1.Download Our One-Click Registry Hacks
If you don’t feel like diving into the Registry yourself, we’ve created some registry hacks you can use. Download and unzip them first. Inside, you’ll find three folders named “System Exit Sound Hacks,” “Windows Logon Sound Hacks,” and “Windows Logoff Sound Hacks.” Inside each of those folders, you’ll find two hacks: one for adding the action to the Sounds Control Panel and one for removing the action again. Double-click the hack you want to use and click through the prompts. When you’ve applied the hack you want, the changes will take place immediately. No need to restart Windows.
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These hacks are really just the individual
READ NEXTSystemExit
, WindowsLogoff
, and WindowsLogon
subkeys, stripped down to the ExcludeFromCPL
values we talked about in the previous section and then exported to a .REG file. Running either of the hacks sets that value to the appropriate number. And if you enjoy fiddling with the Registry, it’s worth taking the time to learn how to make your own Registry hacks.- › Windows 10’s Phone Calls Will Support All Android 7+ Phones
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I've written a Python script which should eventually shutdown the computer.
This line is a part of it :
It makes some sort of a shutdown but remains on the turn-on Windows control pannel (where the user can switch the computer users).
Is there a way to fully shutdown the computer?
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I've tried other
os.system('shutdown ___')
methods with no success.Is there another method which might help?
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For Linux:
or: if you want immediate shutdown without
Simonsudo
prompt for password, use the following for Ubuntu and similar distro's:6,27166 gold badges3333 silver badges5252 bronze badges
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The only variant that really workes for me without any problem is:
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Using ctypes you could use the ExitWindowsEx function to shutdown the computer.
Description from MSDN:
Logs off the interactive user, shuts down the system, or shuts down and restarts the system.
First some code:
Now the explanation line by line:
- Get the ctypes library
- The
ExitWindowsEx
is provided by theuser32.dll
and needs to be loaded viaWinDLL()
- Call the
ExitWindowsEx()
function and pass the necessary parameters.
Parameters:
All the arguments are hexadecimals.
The first argument I selected:
shuts down the system and turns off the power. The system must support the power-off feature.
There are many other possible functions see the documentation for a complete list.
The second argument:
The second argument must give a reason for the shutdown, which is logged by the system. In this case I set it for
Other issue
but there are many to choose from. See this for a complete list. Making it cross platform:
This can be combined with other methods to make it cross platform. For example:
This is a Windows dependant function (although Linux/Mac will have an equivalent), but is a better solution than calling
os.system()
since a batch script called shutdown.bat
will not conflict with the command (and causing a security hazard in the meantime).In addition it does not bother users with a message saying
'You are about to be signed out in less than a minute'
like shutdown -s
does, but executes silently.As a side note use subprocess over
os.system()
(see Difference between subprocess.Popen and os.system)As a side note: I built WinUtils (Windows only) which simplifies this a bit, however it should be faster (and does not require Ctypes) since it is built in C.
Example:
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