Volume Mixer
Wed, 02/28/2007 - 12:59 — George
The old Volume Control from Windows XP was replaced in Windows Vista by the Volume Mixer. The new application brings to Windows Vista much more flexibility regarding the sound management of the different applications you have installed on your PC. In Windows XP the only feature of the Volume Control was to increase or decrease the general system sound level. In Windows Vista, the Volume Mixer is capable of managing sound settings for each multimedia application installed on your PC.
To access the Volume Mixer you have to click on the small volume icon from your taskbar.
At this point the Volume Mixer looks almost the same as in Windows XP. Here you can increase or decrease the sound level of your system. If you want to make individual application settings, click on the Mixer link.
As you can see in the below screenshot, the Volume Mixer will load a list of all the running multimedia applications.
To configure the sound settings for each application move the level up or down. To mute/unmute an application, just click on the speaker button beneath it.
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Comments
Line in volume control
i have a 7.1 sound out in my motherboard....i have installed a tv card & the audio is sent through the line in jack. when i was using Xp i had the controls to control the volume of line in, rear pink in, rear blue in , rear grey in....etc...but now after i installed vista.. i cnt find these controls there... please can anyone tell me how to do this...cos now i cnt get the sound from my tv card... i think it is muted...but i cnt find a control to control the rear blue in volume.... please help
Sigmatel Driver and NO Line-In Playback!!
Hi
I used my x360 to play through my pc setup, ie, picture through my monitor and sound trhough my speakers, in xp and it worked fine. Now i am on Vista and there is no way for me to get sound through the speakers from the line in, ie there is no plackback. I have heard of some people having an extra option in the speaker properties to adjust line-in plackback volue, but these are people with realtake drivers, i have got sigmatel and there is nothing for me to check or un-check to get sound playing through my speakers from the line-in. Any ideas? I need help, need to play COD4!!
regards
William Day
Sigmatel Drivers
Same problem here... Dell Laptop, sigmatel drivers, can't figure out how to monitor through line-in 'live' as the music plays. The funny thing is it will record and I can see the meter moving... I guess the whole thing is tailored not for music or advanced sound monitoring, but for using mic during internet telephony or for speech recognition. Did you find a solution for this as I would love to know??? Cheers Nick
HELP i have just switched to
HELP i have just switched to vista and connt find how to adjust individual speakers volume. for example if i think the center speaker is too loud how can i just turn that one speaker down please help
Special software and drivers
You cannot do that from the Volume Mixer. Maybe your sound card or sound system has some application from which to do that kind of configuration. But... by default you won't find it in Windows Vista.
Stereo Mixer
Hi,
I use camfrog and wanted to be a DJ in one of the chat rooms but apparently i need to do this through a stereo mixer? Vista doesn't have this i have been told so how can i be a dj in a chat room apart from holding a mic to my speakers? If the stereo mixer still exists can anyone tell me where etc?
Thanks
Stu
I accedently erased my volume mixer
where do I get the volume mixer the download because i have like no sound other than with my headphones
Enable the Volume Mixer icon
To put the volume mixer icon back to your taskbar, read this article:
http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-to-configure-the-Taskbar-and-the-Star...
section - How to customize the Notification Area
Volume Mixer Control Button
Until today I DID have a Volume Control Button; Don't know what happened;
I just noticed it was NOT there when I went to use it!
Do you know what I need to do to get it back on my task bar??
rynn@comcast.net
set headphones as default sound device
I wish to set a pair of headphones attached to the back of the computer as my default sound device. I can set them to place going through the control panel to realtek and clicking on the blue minijack sign then checking the headphone box. But every time the computer is restarted there is no sound and it has to be set again.
How can I set the headphones to be the default speakers?