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Sound volume increase?
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound
set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA -- I love a good meal! That's why I don't cook. |
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On 18 Mar 2020 17:44:37 GMT, KenK wrote:
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? If I understand your question, and I may not, I'll give an example of how "I" adjust the sound on my Windows 10 Pro computer. On my PC, admittedly an old desktop that has a separate sound card but no speakers, there are _multiple_ ways to "raise the volume". 1. The little speaker icon slider in the quicklaunch bar (as you noted). 2. Which if you right click on mine, has a "volume mixer" & other controls. 3. Some of which appear to be able to select various sound output drivers. And... 4. The external speakers themselves, which are powered, have a volume knob. 5. Most audio players I use (e.g., Media Player) have a volume slider. 6. I think that even the Nvidia control panel (driver?) has a slider. If that's not enough volume control to get you to "eleven", I'm sure others will chime in with methods that I don't use that I may have missed. -- Usenet allows purposefully helpful adults to share solutions with others. |
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On 2020-03-18 12:44 p.m., KenK wrote:
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA Is this a laptop or a desktop or tablet? If a desktop does your speaker system have a volume control? If so is it turned up? Rene |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
KenK wrote: I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. If you right-click the speaker icon, then go into volume mixer, have you turned down e.g. system sounds, or the individual app you're trying to hear? |
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On 18/03/2020 17:44, KenK wrote:
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA Check if the video or radio or any website you are trying to watch and hear has a speaker icon. It might have been lowered by mistake by you because of your shaky hands and dodgy mouse. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On 3/18/2020 1:44 PM, KenK wrote:
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA I have found that to get the best volume I set the volume control in the program generating the sound to its max, AND then you can use the icon on the tool bar to adjust the volume to your pleasure. If in your situation you the sound is going through multiple program all but the volume control on the toolbar should be set to their max volume. As mentioned if you are using external speakers there may be a volume control on the external speaker also. If the sound source is coming from an external device like DVD player, those volumes should also be a a max. Care should be taken so the sound coming from the external device does not over load the computer sound and amplification circuits. |
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:43:52 -0400, knuttle wrote:
As mentioned if you are using external speakers there may be a volume control on the external speaker also. Regarding hardware, some questions for the OP are (assuming a desktop): a. Do you have a sound card with its own output jack? b. Do you have a corresponding jack on the motherboard? c. Do you have speakers? d. Are your speakers powered? e. Are they plugged in to the corresponding jack on the PC? f. Is the Bluetooth set up on the PC? etc. If it's a laptop, then the OP won't have as many output jacks, nor will a laptop likely have external speakers. -- Adults working together to solve problems is what Usenet is all about. |
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KenK wrote:
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA 1) Install the custom sound driver. This gives a second (alternate) view of the controls. On RealTek, if you have trouble getting the driver from the RealTek site, visit your motherboard maker or OEM computer maker and check their download page. They will also carry the RealTek driver, if your machine uses RealTek. Some computer sound companies have changed hands. A Sigmatel driver might now be an IDT driver. Usually changes of hands are documented (somewhere), if you need to verify this has happened. Even a Wikipedia article about a company can tell you this. 2) There is a "Wave" and a "Master" control on some of them. Speaker = digital-wave-out * Wave-setting * Master-setting Also check the mute buttons. Usually the speaker wiring swap controls don't entirely bugger the signals, so we can't blame them as the source of the problem. Swapping center and sub, can produce "gutless" "no-base" problem. Some computer speakers have center and sub wired wrong, which is why that tick box control exists. ******* A sample, from my current machine. https://i.postimg.cc/SxmwnWD2/custom...visibility.gif Paul |
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-- =?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?= Hello.World Example.com wrote: Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?= Hello.World Example.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Sound volume increase? Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:42:52 +0000 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: r4ttk4$ldf$1 news.mixmin.net References: XnsAB846D4DDF9B4invalidcom 130.133.4.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------E205C82D19AC62B590E6BDBB" Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:43:00 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.mixmin.net; posting-host="c7ffa8184b850f40640070b51ac19f86e625e16f"; logging-data="21935"; mail-complaints-to="abuse mixmin.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 In-Reply-To: XnsAB846D4DDF9B4invalidcom 130.133.4.11 Content-Language: en-GB Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org alt.comp.os.windows-10:114405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 18/03/2020 17:44, KenK wrote: I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA Check if the video or radio or any website you are trying to watch and hear has a speaker icon. It might have been lowered by mistake by you because of your shaky hands and dodgy mouse. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. Attachment decoded: untitled-2.txt --------------E205C82D19AC62B590E6BDBB Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit html head meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /head body text="#006600" bgcolor="#FFFFE0" div class="moz-cite-prefix"On 18/03/2020 17:44, KenK wrote:br /div blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:XnsAB846D4DDF9B4invalidcom 130.133.4.11" pre wrap=""I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA /pre /blockquote br Check if the video or radio or any website you are trying to watch and hear has a speaker icon.¶ÿ¶ÿ It might have been lowered by mistake by you because of your shaky hands and dodgy mouse.br blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:XnsAB846D4DDF9B4invalidcom 130.133.4.11" pre wrap="" /pre /blockquote br br div class="moz-signature"-- br div style="width: 330px; background-color: blue; color: yellow;font-weight: bolder; font-size:150%; text-align: center; margin: 30px 5px 30px 5px;"With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows./div /div /body /html Attachment decoded: untitled-3.html --------------E205C82D19AC62B590E6BDBB-- |
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KenK wrote:
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? Let me count the ways... Besides some possible ways already mentioned, for anybody who needs more volume and might want an equalizer too, try the "Equalizer APO Configurator" with "Peter's Equalizer APO Configuration Extension" (the second one is the GUI, installed after the program). Might take a while to get used to, but it works great. The "Pre Amplifying" ads loudness to whatever you already have. That and the "Frequencies" can be adjusted and saved as presets. |
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"KenK" wrote in message ...
I right-clicked the little speaker on the bottom-right of the screen. Sound set to 100%. I can hardly hear it. Is there any way to increase it? TIA Lots of good suggestions but keeping it simple, simply open Device Manager and go to the "Sound, video and game controllers" section, right-click on the sound devices (e.g. High Definition Audio Device, Intel Display Audio, NVIDIA High Definition Audio and select Update Driver for each one. Reboot system and test again. If it still has low volume and you have checked that the wall wart for any external speakers is plugged in for the powered speakers, power light is on and volume control is turned up, then go back to Device Manger and Uninstall each of the sound devices. Reboot and let windows reinstall the drivers (generic drivers perhaps). If the sound improves, then get any OEM updates you may need. If this is a laptop setup, Uninstall the device drivers, reboot and reinstall any OEM drivers. Win10's generic drivers are good enough in most cases but if you have a sound card with enhanced sound capabilities then those drivers will not shine but they are good enough for troubleshooting and letting you know what the problem most likely is. I'm not aware of any recent Win10 update that is affecting sound but if all else fails, go to Windows Updates settings and uninstall the last update/s installed. If a laptop, any chance it has a mute button or F key selection that is overriding the taskbar applet? -- Bob S. |
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On 20/03/2020 00:23, n/a wrote:
Lots of good suggestions Complete and utter rubbish. None of the suggestions were good. The best one is that the OP should just buy an external speaker and set it to the loudest volume and his problem is solved once and for all. There is no need to come here and cry about silly things like this. Microsoft is really embarrassed that its operating system users are so dumb. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 01:40:19 +0000, ? Good Guy ?
wrote: On 20/03/2020 00:23, n/a wrote: Lots of good suggestions Complete and utter rubbish. None of the suggestions were good. The best one is that the OP should just buy an external speaker and set it to the loudest volume and his problem is solved once and for all. There is no need to come here and cry about silly things like this. Microsoft is really embarrassed that its operating system users are so dumb. Opens his big bloody mouth again |
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An HTML posting reject regular troll a.k.a. "Good Guy"...
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