It happens many time when you were listening to your favourite songs on your computer and suddenly some one just enters your room, you need to mute the sound instantly or it could some another reason for you to mute the sound immediately.
Today, we will tell you all the ways to mute the sound of your computer instantly, it could done be either with a small software or with some simple scripts you can place on your desktop or even with some keyboard hotkey shortcut.
There has been different methods with different operating system like windows xp, vista and windows 7. This trick works with windows xp only, you will need to create a VBScript which you can either place on your desktop or store it any where on your hard disk and create a desktop shortcut for it. SoundVolumeView 2. Previously, you had to use the interface of the application or configure command line options manually.
The release of the new version makes things more comfortable and easier. The program is available for all bit or bit versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system from Windows Vista onward. You can download the archive it is provided in, extract it, and run it from any location as the tool is fully portable. Tip : check out Nirsoft's AppAudioConfig to control the audio volume of individual programs on Windows. The application displays all sound devices and programs with sound in the interface.
All you have to do is right-click on any and select the new "create desktop shortcut" option from the context menu that opens. The program creates a shortcut on the desktop of the Windows system. All you need to do afterward is to click on it to activate it. The program itself is not closed and re-opened as the process does not affect its running state at all. Only mute and volume options are available for applications.
The program needs to be running and playing sound to be listed in the interface. It is possible to create the shortcuts manually. Improve this question. Mike Pateras Mike Pateras 4 4 gold badges 14 14 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. Look in the game documentation or help file, it should be listed in there.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Mars Robertson Mars Robertson 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. He's not lookking for any way to deliberately mute sound using a shortcut. He's looking for the reason why he's inadvertently muting sound which is likely by triggering a keyboard shortcut.
That said, NirCmd is a very neat command line tool, with lots of functions! Whether or not the answer is satisfied, this post satisfies my google search.
Thank you! It is also possible your keyboard has media functions built into it. A lot of my function keys have media functions if I press them with the Fn key. Nifle Vidya Singh Vidya Singh 79 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Press the mute shortcut key you added to turn off the volume. If you press it again, the volume comes back on.
Then add keyboard shortcuts to the desktop shortcuts. Related Posts. Previous Post.
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