Glad to be of assistance. Just don’t put it on your work computer. 
Does anyone know where I can get wave file of Dr Phil’s line
“I want you to get excited about your life”
Before the desktop crashed I was working on a Princess Bride theme.
I had Vizzini’s “Inconceivable!” as an error sound and Miracle Max and wife saying “Bye, Bye boys have fun storming the castle!” as a shutdown sound. I was planning on using a few more, such as Westley’s “As you wish” for a start up sound and Inigo Montoya’s “Prepare to die” as an empty recycle bin sound.
If I haven’t saved these on disk somewhere I may have to hunt them down again when I manage to get myself a new desktop. The laptop is too old and must remain “no frills” sigh.
I can’t stand sounds on my computer other than whatever music I’m listening to. But I used to have a Weird Al theme, with quotes from UHF. Before that I think I had Star Wars.
The default AIM sounds bother the hell out of me. My roommate’s headphones are pretty crappy and I can always hear any noise that comes out of them, and sometimes she leaves her computer on at night and I have to deal with the door-creaking sound forever while I try to get to sleep.
Startup: “This is it … At Last!” from Monty Python
Shutdown: Ren yelling at Stimpy, “Don’t Touch It! It’s the History Eraser button, you Fool!”
Does anyone remember / have the old windows wav file of children laughing? I think it was like windows 3.11 or maybe windows 95.
It used to freak me the hell out because it was like the start or maybe shutdown sound and would go off in the middle of the night. I want to use it for a project i’m working on… Any ideas?
J
Children laughing was not a default sound file for Windows 3.x or Windows9x to my recollection.
IIRC, the 3.x startup sound was tada.wav and shutdown was chimes.wav. For 9x it was The Microsoft Sound.wav and chimes.wav or chord.wav.
Could have been something from one of the ubiquitous sound add-on packages from back when. Maybe try the Internet Archive for shareware?
ETA: Found an actual history of Windows sounds: Windows Startsounds
2 or 3 computers back, I had the opening drum riff from Yes’ “Owner of a Lonely Heart”. I loved it, but it was a smidge too long, and I never went back and fixed it or moved it to the next computer.
I used to use the sound from the puzzle box in Hellraiser, but it was too subtle for most people. By itself, it just sounds like a pretty musical theme.
Does Windows even do sounds anymore automatically? I don’t pay attention. My speakers are usually muted until I play something I want to hear, not random babble from every other website trying to sell me something.