{"id":17349,"date":"2021-11-19T02:18:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=17349"},"modified":"2021-11-19T02:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T02:18:55","slug":"fix-play-windows-startup-sound-is-greyed-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-play-windows-startup-sound-is-greyed-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix: &#8216;Play Windows Startup Sound&#8217; is Greyed out in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t turn off Windows startup sound? If you find that the &#8220;Play Windows Startup sound&#8221; option is greyed out and you&#8217;re unable to modify it, here are two methods to fix this issue in Windows 11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/play-windows-startup-sound-greyed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"455\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/play-windows-startup-sound-greyed.png 400w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/play-windows-startup-sound-greyed-264x300.png 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Fix &#8216;Play Windows Startup Sound is Greyed out&#8217; Using Group Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/open-local-group-policy-editor-in-windows-10\/\">Open Local Group Policy Editor<\/a> and browse to: <code>Computer Configuration\\Administrative Templates\\System\\Logon<\/code>, next double-click the &#8220;<strong>Turn off Windows Startup sound<\/strong>&#8221; policy in the right side.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/turn-off-windows-startup-sound-gpo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/turn-off-windows-startup-sound-gpo.png 573w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/turn-off-windows-startup-sound-gpo-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Change the setting to &#8220;<strong>Not Configured<\/strong>&#8221; and click <strong>OK<\/strong>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enable-windows-startup-sound.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"493\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enable-windows-startup-sound.png 600w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/enable-windows-startup-sound-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close the Local Group Policy Editor. Now you should be able to tick or untick the &#8220;Play Windows Startup sound&#8221; option.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Fix &#8216;Play Windows Startup Sound is Greyed out&#8217; Using Registry Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press the Windows key + R together to open the Run command box, type <strong>regedit<\/strong> and press Enter.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/regedit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/regedit.png 399w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/regedit-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>When the Registry Editor window appears, navigate to: <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Policies\\System<\/code>, delete the DWORD <strong>DisableStartupSound<\/strong> in the right pane.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/disable-startup-sound.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/disable-startup-sound.png 570w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/disable-startup-sound-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/>\n<\/li>\n<li>Close Registry Editor and the &#8220;Play Windows Startup sound&#8221; option should be clickable.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t turn off Windows startup sound? If you find that the &#8220;Play Windows Startup sound&#8221; option is greyed out and you&#8217;re unable to modify it, here are two methods to fix this issue in Windows 11. Method 1: Fix &#8216;Play Windows Startup Sound is Greyed out&#8217; Using Group Policy Open Local Group Policy Editor and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4713],"tags":[4736,2798],"class_list":["post-17349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-11","tag-play-windows-startup-sound","tag-turn-off-windows-startup-sound"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17359,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17349\/revisions\/17359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}