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Try these Windows 7 ringtones

June 6th, 2009 AEST by Long Zheng
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musicYou see, I thought we had all learned a lesson with the Crazy Frog and ringtones based entirely on repeating single-syllable words, but apparently not. BingTones are now invading public places around the world. In a bid to maintain social order, I come offering some ringtones from Windows 7.

As part of Windows 7’s new foundation for managing communication applications at a system level (for example, lowering the volume or muting your music when you receive a call on Skype), the operating system actually now ships with ten soundclips which can be used as ringtones, stored as WMA files under the “%ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Ringtones” folder, for your personalization.

There is of course nothing stopping these ringtones from being also used on a mobile phone. As such, I’ve edited them a bit and converted them to compatible formats for your convenience. Enjoy.

As with any collection of ringtones, not all are of equal standards. Personally I find numero 2 the best, followed by 1 and 4. Number 10 just sounds like the end of a circus act.

19 Comments

  1. Christian Liensberger

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:14 am

    They are funny. I didn’t know that Windows 7 ships with ringtones. Nice stuff.

  2. Andrew

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:15 am

    Great! :D

  3. Imran Hussain

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:16 am

    I like these BingTones! I was expecting to find them in the BingTones official download pack but the tones weren’t, voices were. Did you check out the official BingTones by Microsoft?

  4. Imran Hussain

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:17 am

    Oh sry, I meant ringtones instead of BingTones the first time.

  5. taomes

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 1:21 am

    just for 1, 2 and 4. Thanks

  6. Sterling

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 2:46 am

    1 and 2 are the best (not only compared to the lot).

  7. Avatar X

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 9:33 am

    i wish you would have used silverlight play buttons or flash ones.

  8. Yert

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 10:14 am

    I just tried to play them all at once by clicking them from this page. Sounds good together.

  9. Phusky Phunsaar

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    Number 8’s not bad

  10. Mugunth Kumar

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 11:53 am

    All Sucks…In my opinion, Windows 95 and Windows 98 startup sounds were far better. (no pun intended)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8F4YF_pH-4

  11. Louis

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Where are the WMA formats? Why are they both in Apple loving yuppy format?

  12. Louis

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Oh forget that, they were awful, let the Apple yuppies have em!

  13. someone

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

    Wow Microsoft is losing class daily.

  14. dovella

    Jun 6th, 2009 at 11:51 pm

    Thanks for FIX IE 8 ;)

  15. Dirk

    Jun 7th, 2009 at 3:49 am

    Thanks. I agree with you and go with number 2 followed by number 1.

  16. Sevki

    Jun 7th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    i think they are included in the windows live custom sign in tones or what ever the heck they call it

  17. Carlos

    Jun 7th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    I kinda agree with you. The best one in my opinion is number 1, followed by number 4 and 2.

  18. Krzysiek

    Jul 29th, 2009 at 11:41 pm

    Ringtone01 is the best.
    My second choice: ringtone04 ;-)

  19. zaw latt

    Aug 28th, 2009 at 6:30 pm

    these sounds are really amusing and pleasant

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