Windows Millennium Edition, released by Microsoft in 2000, was the home operating system that followed Windows 98 and preceded Windows XP. Its startup sound played as the system finished loading, becoming familiar to a generation of home computer users during the brief life of the operating system. As Windows ME faded from everyday use, the chime survived online through soundboards, retro technology videos, and nostalgia compilations. It remains popular because it instantly evokes early-2000s home computing, dial-up era desktops, and the look and feel of turn-of-the-millennium software.
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The Windows Millennium Edition startup sound, a bright orchestral chime from the 2000 operating system, used in retro tech videos and nostalgic edits.
This is the startup jingle that played when a computer running Windows Millennium Edition finished booting. It opens with a soft, rising orchestral swell, layered with gentle strings and a warm, rounded chime that feels optimistic and distinctly early-2000s. The melody is brief and polished, building for a few seconds before resolving cleanly, like a welcoming fanfare for the desktop. Hearing it triggers recognition for anyone who used a home PC around the turn of the millennium, mixing nostalgia with a sense of old-school technology. In videos it works as a time stamp, signalling a retro computer, a Windows throwback, or a simpler era of computing.
