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Beep on Cntrl-Alt-Del

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by jfradette

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Does anyone know of a way to have WinNT4/2000 beep (or some other tone) at me when it?s ready for you to log in (the Ctrl-Alt-Del threshold)? As many a tech does, I routinely work on multiple systems simultaneously and this would help considerably.

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by timwalsh

I think you are out of luck.

Windows will only let you define sounds for events occuring within a Windows session (you aren't in a session until you log-in). So you also can't use any kind of log-on script. I don't think there is a way of interjecting an executable to run after a sussessful boot, but before a successful log-on. This would sort of defeat the the security process of requiring a user to provide credentials to log-on.

Therefore I think what you want to do would have to be hardware/BIOS generated. I haven't seen any BIOS that will allow you to define system sounds based on boot-up events, other than error beeps. BIOS considers a successful boot as getting to the Log-in screen.

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