Make your Computer welcome you

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Make your Computer welcome you

By Zeeshan ahmed

Do you watch movies? Have you always loved the way how Computers in movies welcome their users by calling out their names? I bet that you too would want to know how you can achieve similar results on your PC and have a computer said welcome.As you know, Windows OS have lot’s of known and unknown features for the different system tasks.Now, if you would like to make your PC welcome you with a simple voice message, we have a simple way to do that. Of course, you can go for the harder way of changing the default startup sound.welcomed by your computer. With this tutorial you would be able to make your PC welcome you in it’s default (computerized) voice. Let’s get started to learn about this hidden feature.


Please Note : The Script we are going to use in this tutorial is 100% safe and personally tested by me, so don’t hesitate to applying this trick in your own PC. This tutorial and it’s method apply on Windows(XP,
Vista, 7, 8) PC. For best results, it is recommended to change sound scheme to No Sounds.



1.  Go to Start » Control Panel. Then click on Switch to Classic View.

2.  Then Click on Sounds and Audio Devices, and then click Sounds Tab.

3.  Select No Sounds from the Sound Scheme option. (If you want to save your Previous Sound Scheme, save it by clicking Yes in the popup menu.)

4.  Click OK button. You are all set

5.  Now once more time click Start button, now just navigate to All Programs » Accessories » Notepad. or click Start button, then Run option and type ”notepad“ to open notepad.

6.  Now highlight following vbs (Visual Basic Script) code and paste in the Notepad.

 Dim speaks, speechspeaks
Welcome to your PC, Username/Your Name
Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
speech.Speak speaks

7. Replace Username/Your Name with your own name or username. (You can set custom message, if you wish). After do that, click File menu, then click Save As. Now first set All Types in Save as type option below file name option.

8. Save the file as Welcome.vbs or any other name with .vbs extension.

9. After saving file close notepad and copy the saved file.

10. Now, kindly choose your Windows OS and navigate to Startup folder:

Please Note : Before navigating to Startup folder, click Show hidden files, folders, and drives option to show up hidden folders and file below Hidden files and folders section.


For example:
Windows XP : C: » Documents and Settings » All Users » Start Menu » Programs » Startup

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Windows Vista/7/8 : C: » Users » {Your Username} » AppData » Roaming » Microsoft »Windows » Start Menu » Programs » Startup