Stan LePard is now gone. He composed the music. May he rest in peace.

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.

Rest in peace, Stan. Download: archive.org/details/isk-3k-3 This mix is the original mix used in the Internet Explorer 3 Starter Kit 3 and Windows XP before the remaster of the SoundCloud release and the compression of Microsoft's uses of this. (reuploaded because of incorrect canvas resolution lol)

Up to a point I had always installed XP on machines where XP didn't have native driver support for whatever sound card/chip was installed (meaning I wouldn't get to hear this during the setup phase). Then one day, while working for a small managed service provider (around 2005) and setting up a customer laptop (it was very early morning weekend and I was only one in office) I was re-installing XP pro on a newer Dell. After initiating the install, I sort of dozed off while lying on the floor and was awakened by this music (I'd never heard it before) Being a gen X audiophile familiar with very large range of music (and a bit of a stoner) I was immediately struck by it and how "chill" it was. 80s electronic composers like Jan Hammer and Vangelis sprung to mind. I am reminded that another composer/producer did music for Microsoft a few years before. Brian Eno composed the Windows Welcome sound for both Windows 95 and Windows NT4. Anyway, RIP to Stan Lepard for this quite alluring little ditty.

I wonder if when making Velkommen Stan LePard realised that a random track he made for Internet Explorer and Windows XP's OOBE (that most people wouldn't have heard) would become possibly one of the best sounding tracks of all time

I didn't even exist when this song was created and shipped with Windows XP, but I really like it. Everytime I hear it I just feel happy and calm... such an amazing song... I even installed Windows XP in a Virtual Machine just to get the Original title.wma file... Rest In Peace Stan :(

R.I.P Stan LePard Our best legend may have passed away but his soundtracks will remain in our soul.

R.I.P Stan LePard August 10th 1956 - February 11th 2021

title.wma and Opus Number 1 will be engrained in every techies memory for years to come

Welcome... to Windows XP! Microsoft and Stan worked together to make this OOBE a truly increadible eXPerience, my he rest in peace...

some say that Kygo composes calming music.....some say Robin Schulz..... but best of the best know that stan lepard's masterpiece velkommen is the ultimate soother..... RIP Stan Lepard, u will always be remembered by thousands of us who love this music by heart.....

the soul of a man.... enjoyed his good ol days of an old windows computer... the who those who will never be forgotten... the music of windows xp who brought peace and atmosphere... an os will never be forgotten who are those as used by many people, before windows xp end of life... nostalgia will still keep going.... no matter on the song about our memories... rest in peace stan lepard. f pay to respects to this guy.

Our family used Windows XP, but not the original one, but the Zver assembly, which was then popular in Russia, Kazakhstan and other post-Soviet countries. A few years ago I installed this assembly on a virtual machine and this music was playing during installation, but there was also a tiger roar - from Russian "zver" translates as a beast.

the welcome music also reminds me of how life went after 2019. it’s not the same as it was anymore:(

This quality is absolutely beautiful. This track is two years older than me, I never got to eXPerience it during the installation first-hand but that doesn't matter. It still punches me in the gut every single time.

Happy 22nd Anniversary Windows XP! you are the one that made my childhood nostalgia great!

Stan LePard also composed the Windows 98 shutdown sound!

i am not even that old but i am feeling sorry for kids these days, they didn't get to live that simpler but very exciting time

Cries in 32bit

why do tears come to my eyes when I listen to it?

Thank You Stan Lepard

thanks for this.. Im sad over stans passing. He was a great man and a legend. REST IN PEACE.

Ah,good times.(RIP Stan and thanks for reminding me of the XP nostalgia,Toru.)

lol the memories of me using windows xp on a virtual machine (i was realy obsessed with xp in 2018)

RIP Stan LePard

i love this song so much

2:41 my favorite also it gonna be 21th anniversary of windows xp

Ah... Windows XP.. basically my childhood. I love you XP.

Here after Michael MJD's video.

I've been looking for this for so long, thank you very much

I was five when i first heard this song.... Im 15 now... This brings back so many memories...

Rip Stan LePard :(

Rest in peace 🙏

This is just like: game passed or just the song that plays when I rise up to heaven

Nostalgia...

He passed away, but this still is a banger.

Hibbie A, reminds me of Hit Em Up (Dib Dab's Rap) by Yvonne Stone

Beatiful music

I was born in the year Windows XP was released in 2001. I used it on my first computer in 2007 when I was 5 years old 😊

I will never forget the day our school bought us laptops for us to keep and hearing this song setting it up

the good ol days

it's perfect!

Amazing !

I only used Windows XP for a very short time. I got my first PC with XP in 2003 but also switched to SUSE Linux 9.0 back then. But i remember this song well, i liked it a lot

I sold it in 2008

Good for sky high levels in Mario games

Is it just me, or does it sound like someone's playing tennis in the background?

I did the wrong thing... I sold my win XP pc when I only was 13...

Play this at my funeral

Windows xp startup meaghan martin and claire holt

If reincarnation exists, the "new me" would like to hear this melody in his head at the moment of rebirth

i can hear some XP sounds at 2:09, did they used this music to make XP sounds? or am i imagining things

😢😢rip

This isnt related to the video in any way but damn; you are a youtube og-

What kind of memories do you get when you listen to this song?

You have save editor for need for speed carbon for ps3

That opening chord had me thinking I was playing halo for a second😭

le big ripp

Toru the red fox we need to talk

This was peak Windows

MI COMPUN

Is windows 11 has title.wma

4:27, 4:55

tbh, windows xp's sound effects are the best. said this as a windows 11 fan btw

most viewed photo and music :))))

Please say something about the music not just rip.

Velkommen til Windows XP.

Very banana breab

(this is a true story about me) while i hurted my self on a treadmill on full speed i fell because i just didn't run on time i fell back but thankfully there wasn't a wall but there was a couch on the back i sped back on the treadmill i got alot of treadmill rashes and when i got patched up the only thing i wanted to lisson to is title.wma because is the best song to clear depression and sadness so when any of you get hurt or sad lisson to tiltle.wma but now im alright and good:D but everyone hope i don't fall on a treadmill agian and i will never go on a treadmill again

C:/WINDOWS/System32/oobe/images/title.wma Here you go :)

Let's credit the composer :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brown_(composer)