from the volume control, many friends will remember the small speaker-like volume icon in the system tray area, left click to set the mute or adjust the volume, if it is a laptop can also use the keyboard The volume control button controls. If you don't want to see the volume icon appear here, you can open the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties→Volumes window in the Control Panel and uncheck the “Put the volume icon into the taskbar” checkbox. But in any case, compared to third-party software, the adjustment features provided by the Windows operating system are relatively simple.
Controlling the volume is more convenient
Have you ever imagined that you can use the specific buttons on the keyboard or even the buttons of the mouse to control the volume?
Using VolumeTray
If you are not using a laptop or a multimedia keyboard, you can use the software called VolumeTray to replace the volume control tool that comes with Windows.
After the program runs, two icons will be added by default in the system tray area, as shown in Figure 1. The left one is used to control the volume, the left mouse button is clicked to increase the volume, and the right mouse button can decrease the volume. The amount of increment or decrement is 5%, the operation is very convenient; the icon on the right indicates the current volume level, which is displayed in percentage. The green status bar in the icon changes with the volume. When the volume is maximum, the green status bar is the most. Long, it looks like it is clear at a glance.
Figure 1
If you think that the two icons are crowded in the system tray area, you can change the default "Classic Mode" to "Single Tray Icon" in the "Preferences→System Tray" window. Mode 1” or “Single Tray Icon Mode 2”, so only one icon will be displayed. In addition, many media playback software provides shortcut keys to adjust the volume, friends may wish to find out, such as Windows Media Player is to increase the volume through F10, F9 to reduce the volume, F8 mute; Foobar2000 is using "+" and "- "To control the volume.
Volumouse with the mouse to control the volume
Decompress the downloaded file, and then directly run the volumouse.exe file, as shown in Figure 3, we can set the Volumouse program here at boot time Autorun, the default setting is to hold down the Alt key, press the mouse wheel to control the volume, or you can select the Ctrl, Shift key to match the mouse wheel. Of course, you can choose to hold down the left mouse button, the middle mouse button, and the right mouse button to adjust the volume, but it will conflict with the normal mouse operation, which is not convenient.
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It is worth mentioning that, we can also specify the mouse pointer on the desktop or taskbar, use the mouse wheel to control the volume when the title bar, since you only need to move the mouse pre-set Position, then press the mouse wheel to increase or decrease the volume in units of 1000. During operation, a volume slider will be displayed on the desktop. The position of this slider can be adjusted freely, and even the shape of the slider can be set. , or horizontal or vertical, the effect is very good.
Obviously, this method is no better for those slackers are concerned, if you are using a wireless mouse, then it is more cool.
If you use the Media Player Classic player software, you can use the mouse wheel to control the volume.
practical choice: VolumeEasy
This is a special version of the popular shareware author Liao Lei Yu as a "computer expert" development, after decompression can be run directly voleasy.exe, the system tray displays A very beautiful program icon, the program supports Windows Media Player, WinAMP, Jet-Audio and other common media player software, users can use the shortcut keys to control the volume, as shown in Figure 4, here are 3 customizable hotkeys When the volume changes, a green volume status bar will be displayed at the bottom of the screen, which looks very clear. We can also set the appearance of the volume bar and track information in the “VolumeEasy Properties→Appearance” window, even the appearance of the speaker. The same can be customized.
Figure 3
However, the function of VolumeEasy is far more than just controlling the volume, switch to the "VolumeEasy Properties → Playback Control" tab, first select the "Allow hotkey playback control and track selection" checkbox, then We can use the hotkey (Ctrl+Num+number keys) to control the corresponding operations in the media player software, such as play, pause, stop, next track, previous track, display track information, start player, hide player, Display player, etc. Charm
combination of the two software if you can (QuickVOL X and 3r-1c) described below in combination, then I believe we can attract a lot of attention MM yo.
3r-1c is modeled after the volume control program in SONY notebook computer. Originally used for Mac system, when the system volume changes, we will see the effect shown in Figure 5 in the center of the screen. It looks very eye-catching. What's even better is that this small software also supports the skinning function. You can customize the beautiful skin instead, just name it as overlay1.bmp and overlay2.bmp. The function of QuickVOL X is not comparable to the VolumeEasy mentioned above, nor is it comparable to VolumeTray, but its operation is very simple. The left mouse button click is to increase the volume, the right click is to decrease the volume, and the right button is held down. Mute, left-click and hold to set the program, it is better to use 3r-1c.
Figure 4
If you have not installed third-party volume control software such as QuickVOL, please still click the volume control icon in the system tray area instead of adjusting the volume in the media player software, otherwise you will not see Go to the effect shown in Figure 5. Charm
combination of the two software if you can (QuickVOL X and 3r-1c) described below in combination, then I believe we can attract a lot of attention MM yo.
3r-1c is modeled after the volume control program in SONY notebook computer. Originally used for Mac system, when the system volume changes, we will see the effect shown in Figure 5 in the center of the screen. It looks very eye-catching. What's even better is that this small software also supports the skinning function. You can customize the beautiful skin instead, just name it as overlay1.bmp and overlay2.bmp. The function of QuickVOL X is not comparable to the VolumeEasy mentioned above, nor is it comparable to VolumeTray, but its operation is very simple. The left mouse button click is to increase the volume, the right click is to decrease the volume, and the right button is held down. Mute, left-click and hold to set the program, it is better to use 3r-1c.
Figure 5
If you have not installed third-party volume control software such as QuickVOL, then please still click the volume control icon in the system tray area, instead of adjusting the volume in the media player software, otherwise you will not see Figure 5 The effect shown is.
volume adjustment there is a called intelligent
NoiseNakPlus software, can be a powerful addition to the volume control, the input audio and the ambient noise level, the user can also be adjusted according to the timing provided The volume, so that you can achieve intelligent control of the volume, it is amazing. Figure VI
run the program, "Scheduling" tab as shown in FIG. 7 enter, can see that there has been built four adjustment solution, in accordance with a certain level will increase its own volume at a specific time period If you feel that it is not suitable, you can click the "Edit" button on the right to re-edit, or simply click the "Add" button to add it yourself, as shown in Figure 8, set a day of the week in "Active on" For the effective date, you can also click “Everyday” to select all, then drag the “Maximum Volume” slider to adjust the volume, then set the activation time in the “Starting at” box, and finally click the “OK” button to save the The volume control scheme, follow the same steps to continue adding new solutions.
Figure 7
In addition, we can also set the appropriate level of volume for certain media tasks, these settings can be independent of the volume control scheme. Open the "Plus→Inputs" window, which provides different audio input categories such as CD, Microphone, Rec.Master, etc. Check the "Volume→Use Setting" check box at the bottom of the window, then drag the Level slider to adjust the volume. Adjusted, and finally click the "Apply" button to make it effective, you do not have to re-edit the volume control program.
Figure eight