Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s

If you’ve been having flashbacks to 2007 portion utilizing your PC implicit the past fewer days, you’re not alone. Microsoft has mistakenly replaced Windows 11’s footwear dependable — successful trial versions of the OS — with the startup chime from Windows Vista.

Windows testers started noticing the issue soon aft Microsoft released its latest Dev Channel physique of Windows 11 connected Friday afternoon. The .WAV record for the bootup sound, which is stored wrong imageres.dll, had been randomly replaced with the Windows Vista startup dependable successful preview physique 26200.5651.

Microsoft rapidly acknowledged the mistake, and added a enactment to its release notes for the latest Dev Channel build. “This week’s formation comes with a delightful blast from the past and volition play the Windows Vista footwear dependable alternatively of the Windows 11 footwear sound,” says the Windows Insider team. “We’re moving connected a fix.”

It’s not wide however specified a mistake adjacent happened, but Brandon LeBlanc from the Windows Insider squad joked connected X that helium “went successful and had immoderate amusive with the dependable files successful Windows and thought folks needed a blast from the past,” earlier confirming that it was actually conscionable a bug.

Perhaps 1 of Microsoft’s Windows engineers was reminiscing excessively overmuch astir Windows Vista, successful a week erstwhile Microsoft made it clear it thinks Apple’s caller Liquid Glass plan bears immoderate resemblance to its Aero Glass look successful Windows Vista.