Here, check Play Windows startup sound box and then click the Apply button to turn on Windows 10 startup sound. Hopefully Microsoft will release a fix soon enough to resolve this problem. Step 1: Right-click on the volume/sound icon in the system tray of the taskbar and then click Sound to open the Sound dialog. It does mean waiting a few extra seconds at start-up though… but that is a trade-off I would consider worthwhile if it means getting sound first time without having to restart always. Instead, it just refreshes the memory but loads the previous state.īy disabling this setting, you force Windows to load all the system drivers, including the sound driver, on each boot thereby hopefully resolving the issue for good. When you turn the system back on, Windows can boot a little bit quicker by not having to load these drivers again by simply using the information it saved previously. It saves your computer a few seconds when starting up by creating a hibernation file, saving information about your system drivers and state. This is a feature that is included in both Windows 8 and Windows 10. From what I have noticed, the problem appears to be related to the Windows Fast Start-up Option. It seems Windows is not loading the sound drivers correctly as it resumes, even if you are just starting the system up, but it is forced to do this when you restart the system completely.

Windows 10 startup sound change