Evolution of Windows Shutdown Screens 1985-2022

Thanks for 10 likes from the All Windows startup screens series and here are all Windows shutdown screens from Windows 1.0 to 11.
Evolution of Windows Startup screens: • (Updated) Evolution of...
P.S:I accidentally mixed up the clip of Windows Server 2016 and Windows server 2019 part, but there are not much difference between Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.
Please be minded :
1. For some technological problem, I cannot install sound driver on Windows NT 3.1.If the sound driver is installed properly,it will play chimes.wav as shutdown sound.
2. From Windows 98 to Windows Whistler build 2481 , and Windows Server 2003, the shutdown sound is disabled by default
Here are the changes from the Windows startup screen series
1. Added the Windows NT and Windows server versions, and also Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 1.0, the first version of Windows with sound
2.Added changes on intro and outro
3.changes in titles of the introducing of every version of Windows
P.S , before dislike this video , please notes:
1.Windows do not have sounds before windows 3.0 MME.
2.Windows NT 5.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2 used windows NT 4.0 as shutdown sounds instead of windows 2000 beta 3 build 1946-1969 startup sound. The long startup sound is introduced in build 1671 and used until build 1911. Before that , Windows NT 5.0 used Windows NT 4.0 startup and shutdown sounds.
4.Windows Whistler used 2000 sounds until build 2485(2481 does have windows xp sounds but they still use 2000 sounds as default).
5.The windows longhorn sounds that widespread believe • Windows Vista Beta Sou... is fake and never used in any windows longhorn builds. The origin of the sound theme is actually came from an official Samsung desktop theme for Windows XP. Windows longhorn used windows XP sounds until 5840.16384(while later builds used Windows Vista RTM Logoff sound as the shutdown sound.)
6.Starting from Windows 8 , there are not any shutdown sound because the "exit windows" was removed .
For lazy people ;)
0:00 intro
0:02 Windows 1.0
0:13 Windows 2.0
0:19 Windows 3.0
0:27 Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions 1.0
0:39 Windows 3.1
0:49 Windows NT 3.1
1:05 Windows NT 3.5
1:16 Windows NT 3.51
1:31 Windows 95
1:43 Windows NT 4.0
2:31 Windows 98
2:43 Windows NT 5.0 build 1877
3:22 Windows 2000
3:54 Windows ME
4:07 Windows Whistler build 2419
4:39 Windows XP
4:54 Windows Server 2003
5:19 Windows Longhorn build 4015
5:46 Windows Vista
6:03 Windows Server 2008
6:20 Windows 7
6:31 Windows Server 2008 R2
6:46 Windows 8
6:55 Windows Server 2012
7:14 Windows 8.1
7:22 Windows Server 2012 R2
7:41 Windows 10
7:53 Windows Server 2016 (PS: I accidentally mixed up the clip of Windows Server 2016 and Windows server 2019 part, but there are not much difference between Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.)
8:08 Windows Server 2019 (PS: I accidentally mixed up the clip of Windows Server 2016 and Windows server 2019 part, but there are not much difference between Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019.)
8:19 Windows Server 2022
8:38 Windows 11
8:50 outro
This isn’t a rickroll: bit.ly/34SGRYD
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[@kbntv1107]

Is something wrong?

[@colawin]

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[@kbntv1107]

Wrong in the Windows Server 2019 part!

[@colawin]

Oh sorry for the technical problem ,I put the wrong clip on Windows Server 2019.However,I think that there are not much difference between Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019

[@leonidasburton7371]

@colawin YOUR DOIN GREAT ON THIS VIDEO

[@rainbowmau5822]

@@colawin amazin

[@HailAnts]

For those too young to remember, in Windows 95 & 98 the reason it says *'It is now safe to turn off your computer'* in big orange letters was because back then the computer's power switch was not yet a relay controlled by the motherboard. It was a big clunky mechanical switch you had to flip by hand. And there was a foot of snow on it each time!!

[@emilyofjane]

I remember my grandpa showed me how to do this when I was 4 or 5 years old. I always wondered in retrospect why shutting it down was such a long process. Thanks for solving one of my childhood mysteries!

[@Etriland]

Wait 98 did it too?

[@HailAnts]

@@Etriland - There were still enough legacy PCs around when Win98 came out that yeah, if it didn't detect an onboard motherboard power controller it would display that. Most PCs had them by then though..

[@srr8890]

I thought to educate people not to directly turn off the pc before saving & also to avoid hdd issues

[@HailAnts]

@@srr8890 - Well yeah, but Microsoft worked with PC makers to integrate the power control into Windows control for Windows 95. PCs didn't all still have the old, big flip switch by then, most had a push button. But it was NOT a momentary push button like today, it was a push on/push off power button. When you turned it on the button stayed in a little, and when you pushed it off it came back out. The physical switch controlled the flow of electricity, like a light switch. In order for the motherboard to control it, it had to have a relay controlling the switch, essentially an 'electric switch for the switch'. Or a 'solid state' switch. Almost all electronics have these today. You push and hold it to turn it on or off. Even small devices have a rudimentary OS built-in so everything has to 'boot up'!

[@GreenFromAlanBecker]

2:43 Rest In Peace My Windows Nostalgia

[@3dburger]

6:21 For me, pure nostalgia

[@Kaynathevolcanoofficial]

Like same

[@Aaadapro]

Same

[@luckymarker_lol]

Mine too. I used to have 7 for many years even 2022. But i changed to 10.

[@fighter2499]

For me, Windows XP and 7 too

[@kirstenkees755]

My most nostalgic operating system: Windows 95! My favorite back in the 2000s: Windows XP

[@MyComputerStudios_]

4:38 My childhood when my mom taught me how to turn off a computer. My personal favorite

[@colawin]

Yes .I remembered When I was primary school ,the school computer are running Windows XP and it is so fantastic.I also love it so much .

[@barneecalhoungaming]

now adulthood when you teach your mom how to turn off the computer

[@MyComputerStudios_]

@@barneecalhoungaming lol adulthood doesn't exist

[@zaidmaaita3759]

Every good start has a bad ending. :(

[@thefunkiestswag]

@@colawin my old primary school ran windows vista and 7 and i remember the first time i found the right click

[@negronapogi6491]

I miss old days with windows xp

[@ZacharyNoah]

It’s amazing how the Shut Down Windows dialog box in Windows Me is the same one used in Windows NT 5.0 Beta 2, build 1877.

[@dsol876]

It's the same as Windows 2000!!!

[@Teltharion]

wtf with those NT versions taking so long to shut down

[@ExecooteOfficial]

NT Workstation are actually a server manager where it can be used like Windows Server (Year). However, this are old version but its heavy to shutdown via writing on unsaved data into the disk. It probably depends on the system.

[@ezekiei7928]

There not using ssd idiot

[@lacrima024]

1-2 minutes to shut down

[@jammer0856]

????

[@noobiegamingyt6713]

@@lacrima024 in windkss 4.0 nt you see the video it shut downs on 30 seconds

[@msh_dev]

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[@minlinithiel55]

I remember using Windows XP at the age of 8. That was a long memory.

[@kirstenkees755]

I used it when I was an adult, because I was born in 1980.

[@lizdepictor90]

Ah, the good old days where you would manually switch off your computer when prompted.

[@gabe80million]

I was so relieved when I saw you used the correct sound for Longhorn (and Whistler)

[@afifnns.1231]

Windows Vista Beta, right?

[@gabe80million]

@@afifnns.1231 yeah, and XP beta. There's fake sounds for both OSes people used to believe were real

[@mariodykstra6555]

Here is what Windows Longhorn’s shutdown should have been: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJTKkpucr7Kfo9k

[@colawin]

Well that is fake lol

[@gabe80million]

@@colawin yes

[@ym7_cr]

I have an old computer and it says that it has windows xp, but the look and sound of opening and closing it is similar to windows vista ❤️

[@jaimeliotti1547]

Is it a 7 like mine

[@jaffleyfifteen5912]

The geniuses in the future could only come up with a design of 4 equal sized blue squares. Every company ruins their iconic American logos by trying to be sleek and simple and modern by sacrificing being unique

[@LeusteanArt]

It's as corporate as you can possibly get.

[@sybergen333]

Still remember having nightmares with Windows 8, having no idea how to shutdown and other stuff because of the confusing touch screen based GUI design

[@feiliver]

I like how you just typed "subscribe plz" on the Shutdown Event Tracker as a reason before shutting down Windows Server 2003 lol

[@colawin]

Yes :)

[@arlz11]

great video, i liked it

[@R3ndomfacts]

This is so cool new subscriber(:

[@Wind-nj5xz]

Would be cool if the server versions kept using the Windows 2000 style after 2008.

[@useruser510uu]

I mean it would, but Windows 8 and onward has disabled the classic themes.

[@masterofx32]

I had already forgotten those awkward question marks in the Win95 shutdown dialog

[@Ali-Alaamiry]

1:30 POV: The year is 1996 You're an accountant working in the WTC and you just finished work

[@jammer0856]

All the Windows were great, but after Windows Vista, they stop being creative with the sounds and that makes me sad!! :( Windows XP of course is and will ALWAYS be my favorite, but I also loved Windows 95 until Windows 2000!! :)

[@KINGMANJARO_343]

So essentially from windows 8 onwards we have gone back to no sound like the NT era even the logo became flat one color and silent.

[@sachdevabunny1555]

Thanks information sir...

[@leandro007YT]

Good Video New Sub👍

[@dougbellfan4452]

That windows XP Home Screen provides me with so much comfort

[@yetundejazzy4162]

I Love your channel colawin

[@xOzzyyy]

I was stuck with window XP FOR THE LONGEST TIME then till I finally got 10 lol I missed out on everything in between that time.

[@kreuner11]

Ever since Windows NT 3.1 the windows flash a few times before turning off, remember this all the way up to Windows 7 happening

[@lupin281]

longhorn theme is very cool ... windows xp (x64) the best operating systems of Microsoft

[@ArshavinShidan]

Nice windows version shutting down sound

[@fernandozagarra3856]

Perfect to sleep. Thanks!

[@explorex8918]

4:40. My first PC😢 such nostalgia my first computer in the 2000s was with Windows XP for me this startup is the best it’s such nostalgia it brings me to tears! It was the best operating system!

[@1Brother_Bear]

Hi, i found you via a search and the content is straight to the point. One question though, why didn't you include windows neptune? Hope to see you soon!

[@colawin]

Windows Neptune is a cancelled version of Windows so I don’t include it

[@1Brother_Bear]

Understandable.

[@Mr.GlitchInfinity]

@@colawin but you included longhorn

[@2Schoolhouse]

@@Mr.GlitchInfinity Longhorn, from my understanding, is a beta build of Vista. This may or may not be true, but that's from what I know.

[@MyComputerStudios_]

@@Mr.GlitchInfinity this is for winexp fans to know the real sounds of it (the beautiful sounds you hear most often is well... fake)

[@hirotoball]

and this is what i call "Windows Expert"

[@oosha2000]

This is the true windows expert indeed.

[@hirotoball]

@@oosha2000 IKR

[@seroujghazarian6343]

Nobody: Microsoft in 1996: let's have the shutdown sound of the next version of windows NT be the reverse of the startup sound

[@vasgr192]

I mean it's the opposite of startup

[@RetroTechfan123]

gud , you used the real Windows whistler shutdown sound

[@arthasmenethil2201]

I forgot how awful was W8 and 8.1 Thanks for this video. I can tell it took quite some time to get all those ISOs

[@crburek]

I cant belive how he activated windows 95 on 2022 PC

[@dragondracula8172]

The windows 11 one is wrong. That one is from the leaked build of windows 11. Windows 11 RTM's shutdown screen always had a black background, regardless of the color the user selected.

[@colawin]

Yes I know.This Windows 11 shutdown screen video was taken in July 2021 with a earlier Windows 11 build.

[@acktreasure]

No your wrong.

[@colawin]

I know Windows 11 RTM used the blue background as shutdown screen

[@abhamid9465]

idk what you said

[@Heroas_Hamseros]

I used to work with a Windows Server (A virtual Desktop). But it's powered by Citrix Workspace.

[@renofumi28]

How did you get the shake to find cursor on windows 11?

[@vodka_mann]

*me when the test is given out* me: oh, this is going to be easy *When i open the test* me: 4:47

[@zohrabkassis7525]

I remember when I was 4 Years old i used Windows Vista on my moms laptop, I really miss those days

[@yetundejazzy4162]

I,m so glad the comments are on

[@Starry_moonlight02]

Finally a short where someone doesn’t forget Keroppi 😭💕

[@KanaIzumiya]

...What?

[@Pawlo370]

From where do you have old windows like windows 1.0?

[@vladbrawlstars8151]

8:49 sound in the windows 7 animation nice

[@sovietdoge247]

I love how Windows XP shutting down and the music is nostalagic Also i need to buy Windows XP for my old tv does it work on old tv?

[@drfaridakhalifa5827]

Good old fashioned days 😁

[@davidslife989]

What is Windows Whistler, and Windows Longhorn I don't remember these OS?

[@jrz.zrj1461]

Whistler = Codename for Windows XP Longhorn= Codename for Windows Vista 🟥 🟩 🟦 🟨

[@user-mq7kl7sf3q]

Now imagine how many times this person reinstalled Windows...

[@SATADELUXE]

Maybe he/she just used Virtualbox (A app that you can use to use windows... while running windows! You can create a VM (Virtual Machine) and insert the system's image on it and set it up, and bam, you can use any version of windows/linux and others on it!)

[@colawin]

Actually I am using VMware and pcem to test these builds

[@RedoStone35]

Ads I got: SentinelOne (#4) Opera (#2) Crowdstrike (#7)

[@mchenrynick]

I didn't know "Whistler" was put out, since it was basically a "beta" for Windows XP.

[@LanCeeXD]

it leaked

[@El_Transportacoches_33]

2:42 (I recommend doing it in slow motion) : Was the black screen with orange characters also present in Win98? I knew about the existence of this screen in Win95, but in Win98... I am very suspicious, since I don't know if it was implemented in the later release. 2:51: Didn't Win5.0 have its own shutdown sound, instead of Win4.0's recycled one? 4:06 (I also recommend doing it in slow motion): Same question as at 2:42. 5:03: Since when was there an option to comment before shutting down the PC in WinServer 2003? 6:42: Isn't Server 2008 R2 supposed to have system sounds?

[@user-jv7mi3kz7r]

僕は、どのシャットダウンの音懐かしかったし、綺麗でした。

[@ATA2020TSWF]

6:21 I remember back in primary school the had windows 7 pcs

[@ethanstoeckel3901]

I only grew up with windows XP and windows Vista in my elementary school

[@quym373]

my PC rarely shut down. But when it does, it said: installing update 0% completed 😅

[@user-bh8ww6ku7u]

我愛windows ❤

[@michelleschrock9141]

Windows XP was my childhood. 😍

[@starfruitsavepalestine56626]

mine was 7

[@veronicacortes6988]

It feels good

[@jimsdog23]

I got jump-scared by those bars 4:06

[@Pyry300]

How did you get your vms so smooth?

[@colawin]

More ram and cpus

[@Pyry300]

@@colawin I've given 8gb ram, 2gb video ram and 6 cores. My vms are still laggy as hell

[@ThatRandomToast]

@@Pyry300 Draft:Recommended VM configurations (BetaWiki)

[@MOTO_1975]

@@colawin bro ur not a fan and a few years back and forth between the two of the first time in the💀💀💀 the first time in the first time in the 😫😫😫 for the first time in the kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWq0h4SsfLimgas

[@joebidenofficialpotus]

​@@Pyry300 VMware guest additions works decently for me

[@lawsonhellu4718]

In windows XP the backgroung should turn gray when you wait a little longer

[@watchnetworks]

Good video but why you didn't change the scale from 4:3 to 16:9 for a better look (it might take a lot of time, right?)

[@colawin]

Yes I think it will be much better.But as you can see that,I can’t rescale my Windows 3.0 MME to a scale of 4:3 because of the technical issues

[@aleeq9662]

Mostly because the graphics driver weren’t installed yet.

[@JohnRendNYC]

Gonna use Windows 10 until they stop supporting it. Can't believe it's already been almost 10 years

[@diegoalonsodienemannsoto153]

In Spanish it says "Windows se está cerrando" y "Apagando el equipo"

[@Shortfirepenguin]

95 startup too

[@GlobalBeam]

Windows 2003 beta (nt5.2) was before windows 2000 (nt5), nice.

[@hi_gumundwi]

37년의 새롭게 이룬 발전

[@1d19haitszhin_5]

Windows 1.0-3.0:No shutdown sounds and blank screen Windows 3.1:Blank screen Windows Nt 3.1-3.51:Shutdown in progress,Shutdown completed Windows 95:it is now safe to turn off your computer Windows Nt 4.0:same as Nt 3.1 to 3.51 Windows 98:Windows is shutting down Windows Nt 5.0:Shutdown in progress, It is now safe to turn off your computer Windows 2000:Logging off,safing your settings,Windows is shutting down Windows ME(not rtm):Windows is shutting down Windows ME:blank screen or it is now safe to turn off your computer Windows whistler:same as windows 2000 Windows XP:same as windows 2000 Windows longhorn:same as windows 2000 Windows vista:logging off,saving your setting,shutting down Windows 7:same as windows Vista Windows server 2008/2008 R2:same as windows vista Windows 8:shutting down Windows 8.1:same as windows 8 Windows 10:same as windows 8 Windows server 2012:same as windows 8 Windows server 2016:maybe stopping services and shutting down Windows server 2019:same as windows server 2016 i guess.. Windows 11:same as windows 8

[@sheerogoes]

Where do younger product keys and get these stuff without DVD and even how to open up these windows like my windows server 2003 crashed because cd crashed. Help me. And give me the link to download windows but on vmware. If you don't understand what I said then tell me.

[@sheerogoes]

Get product keys*

[@joebidenofficialpotus]

Just pirate it

[@OfficbruhDesigns]

The longhorn one had a wrong shutdown sound

[@joebidenofficialpotus]

It's real

[@BerryBoosh]

Windows XP hits different

[@Solaceon]

Ugh, I know. It was far from my first operating system (that was 98 on my dad's pc and ME on my mom's computer which I updated to XP and then XP on my dad's--four OSes before I was 8 and that's not counting the 80's Macs at school!) But it's the one I used the longest. It's one of those few things that brings me the kind of nostalgia that hurts. Really hurts. Hurts like a hot needle through my guts. And I love it for that very reason. Those sounds are ART!

[@st4rs4ever856]

0:36 W A T E R

[@lukastechtips]

Where do you get all the ISOs???

[@HapxDev]

oracle vmbox

[@colawin]

This is a virtual machine software only,you can get isos from archive.org ,bobpony.com or winworldpc.com

[@warweezil2802]

Always loved 2k pro

[@baim2598]

From silent to silent again

[@JoseGregorioValeroVillarroel]

Am I the only one that noticed the NT 4.0/5.0 shutdown sound is the NT 4.0 startup reversed?

[@Sad_Document75]

0:35 Number 15 whopper whopper whopper whopper

[@jamesgotsword1722]

Nice

[@Messi_goat795]

1:38 good job you shut down the computer

[@cheehongng7554]

4:02 my childhood memories

[@quym373]

so start menu and desktop begin on Windows 95 😮

[@Engel-jg5fo]

There wasn't a shutdown button until NT 3.1

[@HAZEOP]

Windows xp just put a smile on my face! :)

[@beahorvat5312]

No

[@FloatingLancaster]

you forgot the Alt+F4 Menus that you get when you press it on the desktop

[@theaeronshow2023]

Windows before 3.0 with multimedia: A

[@Etriland]

Man, Vista was so nostalgic Btw im 13, and we did not have 7

[@waldekbaszczyk8624]

Windows server 2008 has the 1st version and 2nd version

[@hrmm_9]

The shutdown screen (for me) on windows 11 is always black. The one you put looks like windows 10 shutdown screen

[@colawin]

The Windows 11 version that I used in this video is the older version of Windows 11

[@hrmm_9]

@@colawin oh ok

[@diopher]

im creeped out of nt 4.0

[@ioanandronescu2556]

2:50 but why windows 5.0 shutdown sounds like 4.0

[@ChristofApolinario]

5:04 I wonder what's the response of the developers lmao (Server 2003 is dead i think)

[@horsethi3f]

I stopped shutting down when they invented hibernate.

[@ubahni]

was i the only one who used the start screen to shut down my pc in 8.1?

[@luccasales2424]

Windows is cool

[@kirilvelinov7774]

Windows XP Shows the shutdown screen

[@gopikrishnannair2384]

What about windows 7 rog edition?