Volume Mute Shortcut

caveman · 01-07-2003, 23:01

Does a shortcut exist or would someone write me a :
shortcut to the Volume / Mute feature that exists on the taskbar. I would like this so that I may create a keyboard shortcut eg. Cntl - Alt - M to mute music quickly if say the telephone rang.

Paul · 01-07-2003, 23:55

http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,68776,00.asp any good for ya?

Ramrod · 01-07-2003, 23:58

I have headphones plugged into my puter

danielf · 02-07-2003, 00:36

I have an 'off button' on my speakers.

Paul · 02-07-2003, 08:42

I have a multimedia keyboard with volume control buttons but that doesn't really help caveman does it

caveman · 02-07-2003, 08:50

Thanks for advice. Paul suggestion of using shortcut with mute.exe would have been the favourite. But it doesn't appear to exist in XP. Am I right?

Paul · 02-07-2003, 09:35

Yep there is,
Download mute.exe
Right click it and send to desktop as shortcut (or create a shortcut to it anywhere you want)
Right click shortcut
Properties
Click shortcut tab
Create shortcut key

(You need to create a shortcut to the program itself to create a shortcut key for it as far as I know)

caveman · 02-07-2003, 10:19

Right I am really stamping my feet now! I acnnot find it using search, please tell me what folder it is in. Maybe it just doesn't exist in my XP set up because I havent installed some elements. What do you think?

Paul · 02-07-2003, 10:24

I take it you haven't downloaded it from the pcworld link??
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/fil...leidx,1,00.asp
then follow the instructions

caveman · 02-07-2003, 10:53

You took it right, I'm a p**t. I shouldn't need you to hold my hand at my age, but many thanks for your patience.
I have put it in Prog. Files, copied a shortcut to Desktop and created a keyboard shortcut Cntl - Alt- M (what a clever sod I am) and it works a treat.
Another thing will this only mute PC speakers or would it also mute my AV speakers if I rig them up to Digital Output of sound card, cos that will really be handy.

Paul · 02-07-2003, 10:58

Should mute all speakers I think.
Don't worry though you are'nt a p**t, I failled to make it clear that you had to download a program from the link.
Glad it's working for you though

caveman · 02-07-2003, 11:07

One last question, was it from memory, or index in PCWorld.com that you gave me that tip.

Paul · 02-07-2003, 11:09

Neither, Google

and I ain't too proud to admit it either

bopdude · 03-07-2003, 13:24

just found this little prog here sound control v2.15

with it you can allocate hotkeys for mute and volume control