Windows 11’s taskbar redesign left a lot of people frustrated — tidy, modern, and often frustratingly minimal — but the lively third‑party ecosystem around “taskbar flyouts” has quietly restored the small comforts power users miss. After years of tweaking my own setups across tablets, laptops...
Enable and Manage Per‑App Volume with Volume Mixer & App Audio Device Preferences
Difficulty: Beginner | Time Required: 10 minutes
Windows can play audio from multiple apps at the same time—music in Spotify, a meeting in Teams, a game in the background, and a browser video you forgot was open...
Microsoft shipped a small, convenient behavior in Windows 11 but left out the final mile of usefulness — and a fast-moving community mod has now delivered the missing piece: per‑app taskbar volume control that works by simply hovering and scrolling over individual taskbar icons.
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EarTrumpet brings the convenience of true per‑application audio control back to the Windows taskbar, letting you mute a chat notification, lower a browser tab, or route Spotify to speakers while keeping a meeting on your headset — all without diving into Settings.
Background
Windows has...