volume control

  1. Windows 8 How to have 2 Separate Volume Controls?

    Hello everyone!!! I hope I can find some help to resolve my question. I want to be able to be able to mute the volume on a game I'm play on a website while I'm listening to a radio app I have running. Cause when I'm listening to my radio app the sounds of the game are annoying. Does anyone have...
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    Windows 7 Strange audio issue..randomly stops

    Toshiba laptop, windows 7 home premium. Recently audio stopped working in the sense that i was getting no sound, but the volume control showed "normal" messed around rebooted it came back, lasted a few days then went out. This time the volume icon was X'd out, couldn't get it to work so i...
  3. Windows XP Audio from Computer Console

    (XP Home Edition) I made a mess trying to change security from Zone Alarm to Comodo - ended up with Avast. The changes ( the initial try of Comodo) triggered a 10 second intermittent 'siren' from inside the unit (standard - not laptop). I've tried every kind of removal, reinstall, reboot...
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    Windows 8 windows 8.1 music player

    Hello everyone I have a very odd question, but i hope someone have had encountered with the same problem 1)is there a way to bring the "windows 8 music player" especially the {seek line} which used to look like this but now looks more like a dot on the like which i find much less...
  5. Windows 7 DIY Speaker Volume Control Repair: Seeking Advice on Potentiometer Replacement Solutions

    I have a pair of speakers like these: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001RNOHDU/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER On which the power/volume control on the right side of the primary speaker no longer works...that is that it no longer works for volume, but still works...
  6. Windows 8 Problems with speech files after updating to 8.1?

    Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...
  7. Windows 8 Problems with speech files after updating to 8.1?

    Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...
  8. Windows XP IBM Desktop Audio

    I just bought an old IBM M52 8215D1U desktop that the audio doesn't seem to work on. From what I have read, it has an integrated audio chip, which appears in the Device Manager without indicating any problems with it, but the computer has no internal speakers, and plugging external speakers...
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    Windows 7 volume mixer issue on 7

    Hello, this has started a few days ago. I was using my vlc player to view a movie and i noticed that the volume on the player wouldn't go past 200 (max volume is 400). So i opened the volume mixer and there is device (speakers) and applications (system sounds) and then the player. There is a bar...
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    Windows 7 Win7 Sound Problem

    Have just installed Windows 7. The sound very bad, with clicks and lots of distortion. Moving volume up/down causes crackles. Soundblaster X-Fi on Gigabyte GA-M56s-S3 motherboard with the correct drivers, Windows updates and latest BIOS. I have kept XP on another drive and swap the boot drive...
  11. Windows 8 I should have known better, Help?

    Hi Today I was getting a little audio distortion in a new game I'm trying out. So I decided to update the drivers for my Creative SB Recon3D PCIe sound card. The problem was probably with the game not the drivers but I figured what the heck I might as well keep things up to date. I downloaded...
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    Windows 7 Volume bubble toggle window

    I recently had to reinstall windows 7 on my laptop and everything works fine. But I went to turn the volume up and the little window/bubble that pops up as your toggling it up or down isn't the same as the one that I got with my laptop stock when I first got it. Please tell me how I can get...
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    Windows 7 Hissing Sound from Speakers

    Hello, I have a hissing sound coming from the speakers and headphones when they are plugged in. It comes even when I mute the laptop volume. The sound is not very loud and indistinguishable while playing music. But it is annoying when music stops. Laptop model is Acer Aspire 5739G. Hardware ID...
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    Windows 7 sound cuts off from pandora when I open counterstrike

    Hi computer gurus. I have a strange problem. As the title suggests, when I play pandora music it works perfectly fine. But, when I open counterstrike go , the music stops. When I alt tab, the music starts again but when I switch back to counterstrike it stops again. It doesn't get softer...
  15. Windows 7 How to change active/default audio "device" without rebooting

    I recently updated my NVIDIA card with audio drivers and now it can make the audio go through my television using HDMI (watching videos). The problem however, is that when I go into the Sound settings and change the default to the NVIDIA "device", I need to reboot windows to activate the...
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    Windows 7 sound suddenly not working

    i have a sound card, sb audigy. suddenly it is not working. i see in the mixer the volume is indeed going up an down, but no sound. when i tried to update drivers, it tells me it found the drivers but cannot install them. [now it says the driver software is installed, it still is not working...
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    Windows 7 Caps/Num/Scroll indicator for HP Pavilion Elite m9040n PC

    I lost this function in the lower taskbar and the volume control blue line indicator on the lower part of my screen. I'm running Windows 7. How can I get it back? Thanks
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    Windows 7 Control Pannel doesn't save Settings OMG have been searching for nearly the whole day

    Okay. I've been searching nearly for 6+ hours right now looking on how to get control panel settings to save. The full story is games that use too much memory will eventually freeze and loop the last sound played which is extremely annoying when my volume is loud enough to hear and it's...
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    Windows 7 No sound in games, iTunes, Win Media Player or internet. ONLY sounds are Windows system events.

    My PC is running Windows 7 64-bit with onboard Realtek HD Audio. I've checked all obvious places, Device Manager, Volume Control, RealTek HD Audio Manager, etc. I've tried a dozen different fixes involving regedit, services.msc and uninstalling drivers, updating drivers, rolling back drivers...
  20. Windows 7 Volume Mixer Resets Sound to 100%

    Hi, everytime I load a game I change the volume to say 15%, after I close the game then try it again, the sound jumps back up to 100% volume like windows has not registered the change and chosen to ignore or save my preferences. Programs like steam will continue to use the selected volume but...