Volume Mute Shortcut

[caveman]

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 K]

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

[Ramrod]

I have headphones plugged into my puter:)

[danielf]

I have an 'off button' on my speakers.

[Paul K]

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

[caveman]

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 K]

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]

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 K]

I take it you haven't downloaded it from the pcworld link??
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download/0,fid,15480,fileidx,1,00.asp
then follow the instructions :)

[caveman]

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 K]

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]

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

[Paul K]

Neither, Google ;) and I ain't too proud to admit it either :)

[bopdude]

just found this little prog here (http://www.freewarefiles.com/results.php?categoryid=6&subcategoryid=75) sound control v2.15

with it you can allocate hotkeys for mute and volume control