Rest in peace, Stan LePard. This track is a timeless classic and is fondly remembered by millions of people around the world. Your contributions to Microsoft's other software, such as Windows 98, Encarta, Halo, Office and many others, were also top notch.
Aside from the Windows Aesthetics, imagine listening to such big numbers, unimaginable ones. It just reminds me of those, but yeah, it also reminds me of the design of next generation of human technology that Microsoft has brought to Society.
This music was produced during 1994?! I always thought it was actually produced in 2001 because Windows XP is where the music in the SoundCloud link in this video's description is the most popular. I really had no way of knowing that it was actually produced in the 1990s until now. That's amazing! Anyway, this remastered music is cool. Windows XP was one of my childhood Windows operating systems.
Yeah 1994, which even predates Internet Explorer Starter Kit 3. Perhaps Microsoft got it produced for some internal music library, and they decided to use that for both IESK3 and XP.
@@crossbowmediaarchive9716 You're right. I heard this music in 1994, I tried search this music but technologie is low in 90's :). I remembered when installed windows XP on my pc. I found this music after 10 years :) 1994-2004. Life is weird :)
I got to use an old windows xp laptop two weeks ago and oh boy, that felt so smooth and fast with just 512mb of RAM. I can't understand why they couldn't just keep updating xp until today. Greatest OS Ever!
In 2006 I was 12 years old. I lost a friend very dear to me. For the next 7 years I listened to this music I knew only as "Windows welcome music" at least 100 times a day for the next seven years. I was going through a really bad depression and did not want to live anymore. This piece of music helped me through those difficult times and saved my life. I have listened to this song literally thousands of times. The other day I discovered a video about who made the music and found out it was Stan Lepard. I went to go and track him down so I could thank him for such a amazing piece of music that impacted my entire life. RIP Stan Lepard. I am so sorry that I did not get to thank you. I hope you are in a better place now and know that you changed at least one life.
Microsoft should really add this back to the Windows setup.... it’s magical. Likewise, Apple should definitely do first-boot Welcome vídeos on Mac again.
I wish Stan LePard would stay on this world longer. Look what he created! He created these masterpieces of music such as this iconic song! And it’s the most infamous song even by one of Microsoft’s naming for it being called… Title.wma But R.I.P Stan LePard e n e s a t c e
So recently, Stan LePard has posted a remastered version of the original mix from 1996: soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1996-internet-starter-kit-velkommen-original-mix. The version included in this video was an edited version used for Windows 98's setup according to LePard, although I'm pretty sure it never made it into there. (Edit: it is from 1996, the metadata's year is more likely alluding to when the software he used was released)
Windows XP was truly an OS from the future just look at the style statement whether the wallpapers, the sounds, the intros the tours, the file manager, the speed, the snappyness... omg can't believe this ironic world. Windows XP was and always will be the *"SR-71 Blackbird"* of OSes it never gets better than that
Let me break down your description: "A remastered(?) version of Windows XP's OOBE music" It obviously is so, no need of the (?) "Said upload erroneously states it was used in Windows 98, but that wasn't the case." It actually says "Used in the "Home" version of Windows 98 for the set up music." This can easily be guessed as Windows ME, which has a OOBE that is built similarly to XP's OOBE unlike with 98's. Seeing how this OOBE style made it's way into Whistler, the beta version of XP, and slowly shaped itself into how it is now in the final release, it can be guessed that the music was planned to be used with ME's OOBE but ended up being delayed into XP's instead. "It however, does reveal, that it was originally made for Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kit *(although according to a Quora post it was scrapped and reused for XP)"* This is untrue, it DID make it into the Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kit. Many say it was during installing Internet Explorer 3 through the CD, but really it's after when the computer is restarted. You will get to a full screen page (which after exiting, you can open by clicking the CD's icon on My Computer), and when the Internet Explorer animation finishes or you click on it, it'll bring you to a screen full of interactive archived webpages, extra utilities to install relating to IE3, and a guide on how to get connected. As you are there, the same exact music from XP's OOBE will play, which you can mute/unmute by pressing the little speaker icon to the bottom right. If you want to install it on a Windows 95 machine to try out, the link for it can be found here; archive.org/details/Internet_Explorer_3.0_Promotional_CD The only difference between this, and the actual Starter Kit (which is near impossible to find online that isn't in Czech), is that there is no compatibility for Windows 3.1 on the Promotional CD. If you really want the Czech copy, to prove it isn't only on the Promotional CD, here you go; ulozto.net/file/CtfyaQTtp4U2/microsoft-internet-explorer-starterkit-cs-iso The Windows 95 portion includes IE3.0 (4.70.1155), and the Windows 3.1 IE2.1 (2.10.524) Also, a neat fact; these Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kits came pre-bundled with Upgrade copies of Windows 95.
Thanks for your comment. 1. I put (?) because I wondered if this was the original take and the one that got used got edited a bit, but yeah I'm pretty sure it is remastered. 2. My guess was that LePard was just getting his versions mixed up, although that's possible too. 3. Thanks for clearing that up. I never actually got round to trying it because I had problems with the copy on BetaArchive's FTP. I don't think I was aware of the promotional CD thing.
I mean, you can transform your Windows 10 computer into Windows XP. At least really closely. ua-cam.com/video/jf_Y2aLu4B0/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/bAjn6uqJkzE/v-deo.html
@@KonEl-BlackZero Yeah, I am kind of upset about that right now. Windows 10 2004 completely ruins the whole thing, I might downgrade back to 1909. I don't see the improvements anyway.
This gives me nostalgia looking at the old computers people Still use at offices normally when i see a old computer this song goes right in my head and starts playing like when i first got my sega genesis mini and i booted it up and i played sonic 1 and sonic2! And title.wma was playing like a disk in my head
So the version used in this video? Here: drive.google.com/file/d/1WqXsFVDdwkhJ1u4Ozm-e5NB5ZXp-o-zD/view It seems the original SC upload was brickwalled, but Stan later replaced it with a non-brickwalled version, which sounds better.
@@crossbowmediaarchive9716 Many thanks! I like both versions, but I didn't have this included because I didn't have time to download it. Do you know what I dream about? A short version of Original Mix ISK3 Velkommen is the same than this remaster. Maybe I'll try to cut it, but it won't sound so natural.
i hope they make an option where you can change between the windows 9x/xp/vista/10/11 themes in the newer versions of windows and ofc add this music back to the oobe
Shane Micro$oft doesn't care about windows anymore. Guess we'll be getting half asșed, more broken reskins of windows 10/8 for the rest of M$:existence.
Bro look at Windows XP, Vista (Don’t care if you hate it) and 7! They were peak and then… 8. GOD DAMMIT THEY TURNED WINDOWS 8 INTO LITTERAL TRASH BY MAKING EVERYTHING LOOK LIKE FUCKING PLASTIC!!! THEY EVEN DARE TO ADD THE FUCKING START SCREEN.
I've uploaded the original version here: ua-cam.com/video/SomAhKueaus/v-deo.html The version in this video is a remix from 2011. His description on SoundCloud is misleading; the remix wasn't made in 2020, but rather he replaced it with a different master in 2020.
Rest in peace, Stan LePard. This track is a timeless classic and is fondly remembered by millions of people around the world. Your contributions to Microsoft's other software, such as Windows 98, Encarta, Halo, Office and many others, were also top notch.
RIP legend..This is exactly why I came here
What? I wanted to meet this guy someday. I have yet to find any other song in quite this style, and only recently learned the artist's name.
@@ErdrickHero If you like this you'll probably also like Enigma's "Sadeness" and the Streets of Rage title music. Those are very similar to this.
o7
Legend. You made the soundtrack to a lot of peoples lives.
This is smooth as ice , soft as snow , cool as winter in short this is the COOLEST tune ever
Aside from the Windows Aesthetics, imagine listening to such big numbers, unimaginable ones. It just reminds me of those, but yeah, it also reminds me of the design of next generation of human technology that Microsoft has brought to Society.
Stan LePard was also responsible for the incredible theme music of MS Flight Simulator X.
Yes
I didn't know that!
thats nice
and plants vs zombies adventures and halo
This music was produced during 1994?! I always thought it was actually produced in 2001 because Windows XP is where the music in the SoundCloud link in this video's description is the most popular. I really had no way of knowing that it was actually produced in the 1990s until now. That's amazing! Anyway, this remastered music is cool. Windows XP was one of my childhood Windows operating systems.
Yeah 1994, which even predates Internet Explorer Starter Kit 3. Perhaps Microsoft got it produced for some internal music library, and they decided to use that for both IESK3 and XP.
@@crossbowmediaarchive9716 Interesting.
@@crossbowmediaarchive9716 You're right. I heard this music in 1994, I tried search this music but technologie is low in 90's :). I remembered when installed windows XP on my pc. I found this music after 10 years :) 1994-2004. Life is weird :)
Wow I didn't know that! I have always wondered there was indeed something "90s" about this song , now I know ;)
1996* 1994 is the release date of the version of the software that LePard used to make this song.
0:21 - love how the chords here begin to stack along with that guitar sounding synth, it's honestly beautiful
Rest in Peace Windows XP Nobody will forget you ;(
Nobody. ;(
I got to use an old windows xp laptop two weeks ago and oh boy, that felt so smooth and fast with just 512mb of RAM. I can't understand why they couldn't just keep updating xp until today. Greatest OS Ever!
@@ShauMapping really nobody ;(
@@goigbi Money.
@@goigbi Don't forget to use Mypal, One of the best browsers especially for Windows xp
In 2006 I was 12 years old. I lost a friend very dear to me. For the next 7 years I listened to this
music I knew only as "Windows welcome music" at least 100 times a day
for the next seven years. I was going through a really bad depression
and did not want to live anymore. This piece of music helped me through
those difficult times and saved my life. I have listened to this song
literally thousands of times. The other day I discovered a video about
who made the music and found out it was Stan Lepard. I went to go and
track him down so I could thank him for such a amazing piece of music
that impacted my entire life. RIP Stan Lepard. I am so sorry that I did
not get to thank you. I hope you are in a better place now and know that
you changed at least one life.
Happy 30th anniversary (maybe I'm early or late.)
Microsoft should really add this back to the Windows setup.... it’s magical. Likewise, Apple should definitely do first-boot Welcome vídeos on Mac again.
Or at the very least add it into the windows/media folder to play
I couldn't agree more, they're worth the nostalgia to keep permanently.
They Should at least add some reference samples to next Windows, maybe create some Windows sounds that will make you remember this awesome theme!
today microsoft is oversimplified, this song is not oversimplified so microsoft will not use it sadly ):
they should bring a unique startup sound back first, not the windows 7 one that is even off bij default.
I wish Stan LePard would stay on this world longer.
Look what he created!
He created these masterpieces of music such as this iconic song!
And it’s the most infamous song even by one of Microsoft’s naming for it being called…
Title.wma
But R.I.P Stan LePard
e n e
s a
t c
e
Literally this is the theme of my childhood happy sunny days nothing to worry about
Aa yeah, right back at you!
Thank you, Stan LePard for this masterpice.
God may rest his soul.
So recently, Stan LePard has posted a remastered version of the original mix from 1996: soundcloud.com/stanlepard/1996-internet-starter-kit-velkommen-original-mix. The version included in this video was an edited version used for Windows 98's setup according to LePard, although I'm pretty sure it never made it into there. (Edit: it is from 1996, the metadata's year is more likely alluding to when the software he used was released)
it was intended for 98SE's OOBE but cut
for a song thats 30 years old in 2 years time, it is absolutely timeless
I remember having Windows XP on my parent's laptop when I was a child. I will always remember this song.
If Microsoft Windows ever gets one final product, this is the menu music.
You don’t realize how much I’ve always wanted this tune in higher quality. Thanks so much for sharing this! 😄
Music from another world. Thank you Stan for the beautiful memories with XP
He was the composer of plants vs zombies adventures, RIP Stan Lepard
Even TODAY, this music is hopeful, futuristic, and fresh!
I played this the last minutes of 2022, and at midnight, I played the XP startup~
Rest in peace to the big guy... i bet he be jammin with his works of art in heaven.
Windows XP was truly an OS from the future just look at the style statement whether the wallpapers, the sounds, the intros the tours, the file manager, the speed, the snappyness... omg can't believe this ironic world. Windows XP was and always will be the *"SR-71 Blackbird"* of OSes it never gets better than that
RIP Stan. We Will Miss You Forever And Beyond.
Thank you, Stan LePard. I mever knew you but you made life that much better by making this song.
R.I.P Stan LePard, Your music was legendary
this brings a tear to my eye, so many memories
This song reminds me of the good times I spent with my brother.
The graphic design for this video picture is REALLY GOOD. its very nostalgic
* Play at .95 % speed for a light slower but yet interesting tone of Welcome :D
Came to check out the remaster because of Michael MJD
same here
i here from Michael MJD
Same here
This will always be nostalgic to everyone, even if i dont use windows xp,it will be still nostalgic to me and all of the people.
What an unexpected yet pleasant surprise. I'm glad this was found and archived.
i've always loved this track ever since hearing it during setup
Same
This is so cool to hear! I wonder why the name of the track is the Danish word for “Welcome”, though
It was used as the Out of box experience for the 1996 release of Windows Internet Explorer as the welcome theme and used in windows xp.
This sounds so cursed. Not because it’s so high quality but because it’s so short
1996 version and the 2020 may be awesome.
They only gave me some childhoods
Let me break down your description:
"A remastered(?) version of Windows XP's OOBE music" It obviously is so, no need of the (?)
"Said upload erroneously states it was used in Windows 98, but that wasn't the case." It actually says "Used in the "Home" version of Windows 98 for the set up music." This can easily be guessed as Windows ME, which has a OOBE that is built similarly to XP's OOBE unlike with 98's. Seeing how this OOBE style made it's way into Whistler, the beta version of XP, and slowly shaped itself into how it is now in the final release, it can be guessed that the music was planned to be used with ME's OOBE but ended up being delayed into XP's instead.
"It however, does reveal, that it was originally made for Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kit *(although according to a Quora post it was scrapped and reused for XP)"* This is untrue, it DID make it into the Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kit. Many say it was during installing Internet Explorer 3 through the CD, but really it's after when the computer is restarted. You will get to a full screen page (which after exiting, you can open by clicking the CD's icon on My Computer), and when the Internet Explorer animation finishes or you click on it, it'll bring you to a screen full of interactive archived webpages, extra utilities to install relating to IE3, and a guide on how to get connected. As you are there, the same exact music from XP's OOBE will play, which you can mute/unmute by pressing the little speaker icon to the bottom right. If you want to install it on a Windows 95 machine to try out, the link for it can be found here; archive.org/details/Internet_Explorer_3.0_Promotional_CD The only difference between this, and the actual Starter Kit (which is near impossible to find online that isn't in Czech), is that there is no compatibility for Windows 3.1 on the Promotional CD. If you really want the Czech copy, to prove it isn't only on the Promotional CD, here you go; ulozto.net/file/CtfyaQTtp4U2/microsoft-internet-explorer-starterkit-cs-iso The Windows 95 portion includes IE3.0 (4.70.1155), and the Windows 3.1 IE2.1 (2.10.524)
Also, a neat fact; these Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kits came pre-bundled with Upgrade copies of Windows 95.
Thanks for your comment.
1. I put (?) because I wondered if this was the original take and the one that got used got edited a bit, but yeah I'm pretty sure it is remastered.
2. My guess was that LePard was just getting his versions mixed up, although that's possible too.
3. Thanks for clearing that up. I never actually got round to trying it because I had problems with the copy on BetaArchive's FTP. I don't think I was aware of the promotional CD thing.
XP is almost 23 years old 😮
best picture is the one with the dog
Frog is best picture no contest
Edit: thought we were talking about pfps im dumb
red moon desert > all
The name is friend for that wallpaper
@@Choyeon_77 ik
my personal favorite is bliss
When your soul get uploaded to heaven after you leave earth.
I feel like there should be a Windows XP texture pack for Windows 10.
I mean, you can transform your Windows 10 computer into Windows XP. At least really closely.
ua-cam.com/video/jf_Y2aLu4B0/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/bAjn6uqJkzE/v-deo.html
@@JagiUGG I tried, but with the forced updates it becomes buggy af.
@@KonEl-BlackZero Yeah, I am kind of upset about that right now. Windows 10 2004 completely ruins the whole thing, I might downgrade back to 1909. I don't see the improvements anyway.
And there should be an Windows XP theme for Windows 10, with the sounds, icons, and everything on it.
@@JagiUGG I only use Windows 10 LTSB 2016
This music stuck in my head since 2007, the first time i know computer
Evrybody gansta until the Latin chants start
I was born not long before windows 7 release but somehow my kindergarten school has windows xp running in 2012 lol
I miss XP man
What a fresh new world that was, at that time new..
Best song i have ever heard.
every time i got a trojan I would jam out to this song.
what's weird is that this song was actually added in the out of box experience last second for just no reason
Love so much this
This remaster is awesome
The sound no one knew about because the Sound Drivers weren’t configured properly
RIP Stan And RIP Windows XP
XP Still lives on my daily desktop
Do you perhaps have the remastered Windows ME Welcome to Windows theme? Despite all ME's flaws, that video's music was funky
I don’t have it, sadly. I don’t know who composed it, so I can’t contact them for it.
R.I.P Stan Lepard😭
finally found the original music!!
Windows 10 Welcome!
1:35 best part
I love this song
This gives me nostalgia looking at the old computers people Still use at offices normally when i see a old computer this song goes right in my head and starts playing like when i first got my sega genesis mini and i booted it up and i played sonic 1 and sonic2! And title.wma was playing like a disk in my head
awesome, can you put a Looooooot of calm atmosphere and SOOOO MUCH harmonic ins this music man ?
Rest In Peace, Cayde-6
Finally I found this in bettery quality. Can you upload a flac file somewhere?
You can download it from Stan LePard’s SoundCloud in wav.
@@crossbowmediaarchive9716 but... flac....
@@ark2364 WAV is lossless, like FLAC, so you can easily convert the file format.
"bettery" x -> better ✓
@@aathmastralismusic1233 Also WAV contains the original (uncompressed) raw data where as flac is compressed.
Almost a Spiritual Voice of all Tech World
This song
- Microsoft Internet Explorer Starter Kit
- Windows XP Installation Music
We are miss xp This is Best Os Ever
the games i've played, the people i connected with, the memes i've experienced..
Do you have a version from before 2020-09 that has been replaced with soundcloud in wav?
Thanks in advance
So the version used in this video? Here: drive.google.com/file/d/1WqXsFVDdwkhJ1u4Ozm-e5NB5ZXp-o-zD/view
It seems the original SC upload was brickwalled, but Stan later replaced it with a non-brickwalled version, which sounds better.
@@crossbowmediaarchive9716 Many thanks!
I like both versions, but I didn't have this included because I didn't have time to download it.
Do you know what I dream about? A short version of Original Mix ISK3 Velkommen is the same than this remaster.
Maybe I'll try to cut it, but it won't sound so natural.
Last time I remember this song in a video of robotboy's images
Actually it was likely made with Windows Movie Maker and on a Windows XP.
Robot boy I remember that
I miss Stan.
Rip Windows XP ❤
2:38 the gods of the computers that Provide You the best Windows version At that time
Nostalgia’s theme song
Goodbye Windows XP...
The music got "Fruity Loops" vibes so much.
Who remembers pinball ;(
RIP Stan Lepard
Congrats for 78k views
i hope they make an option where you can change between the windows 9x/xp/vista/10/11 themes in the newer versions of windows
and ofc add this music back to the oobe
2:38 imagine if windows had setup music in the modern day that would've been cool also
rip Stan LePard
Shane Micro$oft doesn't care about windows anymore. Guess we'll be getting half asșed, more broken reskins of windows 10/8 for the rest of M$:existence.
Bro look at Windows XP, Vista (Don’t care if you hate it) and 7!
They were peak and then…
8.
GOD DAMMIT THEY TURNED WINDOWS 8 INTO LITTERAL TRASH BY MAKING EVERYTHING LOOK LIKE FUCKING PLASTIC!!!
THEY EVEN DARE TO ADD THE FUCKING START SCREEN.
Welcome to windows xp tour
i like the End note
Windows XP Installation but like Portable Version
THE NOSTALGIA THO
how do you get the 2020 remix?
The you're getting a dell! age of history :p
R.I.P.
Some ambient parts reminds me slightly of creatures 1996
Hey!! Sound Card is Working
Velkommen
2:28
It would be nice if you remaster the original velkommen full 5.25 mins. This is the 2021/2020 remix of it.
I've uploaded the original version here: ua-cam.com/video/SomAhKueaus/v-deo.html
The version in this video is a remix from 2011. His description on SoundCloud is misleading; the remix wasn't made in 2020, but rather he replaced it with a different master in 2020.
If microsoft has a heart, they'll use this on the Windows 11 install screen. :)
2:45 goes hard
Attention tech companies: invest in creative talent.
Trance 009 sound system intensifies
There are 2 dislikers among us.
There is one cringe kid among us
@@cessposter Maybe you?
*inhale*
_fucking_ *YES*
The song nobody ever heard because they had no sound driver installed