The problem here is that if someone's running Win10 Home the Group Policy Editor is not available "as shipped." Although I've found downloadable versions I'm not really comfortable going that route.
To get a specific sound to play as well and to use the PowerShell Scripts Tab in the Startup Properties of the Group Policy Editor. (new-object Media.SoundPlayer " Full path to desired. I understand how to use PowerShell instead of AutoHotKeys with the one line script of the form: The "best" solution appears to be the one written by Amos Yuen, which can be found by searching on the text, " After doing some research, seems like logon, logoff, and unlock sounds in Windows 8 are disabled". I found a lengthy discussion about this under Windows 8 social technet site here. I've tried the registry edit to make it reappear under Sound on Windows 10, but that doesn't work because although it allows you to select a sound to be played, and that sound will even work if you hit the "Test" button, it is not played by Windows when it shuts down. With the advent of Windows 8 direct access to this setting disappeared. In fact, I think the standard "Shutdown Windows.wav" file that is in the C:\WINDOWS\media folder was set to play by default, though you could choose another wav file if you wanted. Up through Windows 7 one could specify a sound to be played when Windows was just about complete in shutting down using the Exit Windows item in the Sound controls. Since I work with a number of blind or visually-impaired clients, this is really not a simple "oh, wouldn't it be nice to have this back" issue for them.
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