Setup Music

The setup music is a well known feature of Windows XP, however it doesn't play if you haven't installed drivers for your sound hardware yet. It is found in the location C:/WINDOWS/System32/oobe/images/title.wma on most Home and Professional installations of Windows XP.

The composer has been identified as Stan Lepard (Rest In Peace), who has composed various pieces for Microsoft, and it appears to have originally been written for Windows 98. He also remastered this song.

Trivia

 * 2410-2463 was the first build to use this song. This build used a version with a higher bit-rate.
 * The song 'A Thousand Words' by Savage Garden shares various similarities to this song. As the song was composed in 1998, and this one was composed a year earlier and they share the same chord structure… well yeah.
 * For Longhorn builds using NTLDR as well as Server 2003, the OOBE plays 'No Hay Problema' by Pink Martini instead.
 * There is no OOBE in x64 Edition of Windows XP (title.wma is completely gone and most of the oobe folder is emptied).