Windows Millennium Edition, usually shortened to Windows ME, launched in September 2000 as a home-focused successor to Windows 98. Its startup and shutdown chimes belonged to a familiar set of system sounds that also included error sounds, notifications and logoff cues. ME was quickly overshadowed by Windows XP in 2001, but its interface sounds survived in sound packs, emulation videos and nostalgia compilations. The shutdown cue stayed popular because it is short, recognisable to anyone who used a family PC at the time, and useful far beyond its original desktop.
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Windows ME shutdown sound effect is the brief melodic chime that played when Millennium Edition powered down, now reused for retro computer endings.
This is the shutdown jingle from Windows Millennium Edition, the operating system Microsoft released in 2000 as the last of the Windows 9x line. It is a short, soft sequence of synthesized notes that descend calmly, signalling the computer is closing programs and powering off safely. Unlike an error alert, it feels tidy and final, with a gentle early-2000s PC warmth. Hearing it instantly places a scene at the end of a session, which is why editors use it to close retro tutorials, mark a character logging off, or give a joke a neat, old-computer punchline.
