The windows startup sound won't be played until after logging on, so even by piecing the sound together with gaps, it won't achieve the effect you're looking for. I don't think I've seen any third-party software to trigger sounds earlier than that, though I haven't looked. I'm thinking adding some sort of application in the Services list, would do the trick - services start up before logon, and an application might have some means to detect the progress of startup....

Rob Cashman
Customer Support Engineer