I have read about this before.. other people wanted to do the same as you
with the time of the sound.
Indeed XP has a limit on the time of the startup sound... I never read about
a solution though..

There may be one.. it seems to me like some hidden setting in the registry


"Mike@Lincoln" <ivan-the.spy@kgb.org> wrote in message
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> XP pro ( SP2 )
> I wanted to customize my sounds and found two things:
> 1) Sounds in control panel will only list Wave files ( .wav )
> not mp3 or midi.
> I got around this by using Audacity sound editor to convert mp3 to .wav.
>
> 2) The 3.5 minute tune I want to play at startup only plays for about half
> the length and cuts...as if another background program is somehow cutting
> off the audio. This happens with several different wave files I have
> tried, but not with the standard ones.( Those are all very short anyway )
> I have tried a startup management software to space out the components and
> even used a timed delay on some programs, but all to no avail...even if I
> use a short tune, such as clock-chimes it still cuts half-way
> through....anyone have any thoughts ?
> Mike..Lincoln, uk.
>