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   Dragonlair
   Member

   My husband is driving me bonkers and I'm driving him bonkers because I keep pointing out his forgetfulness!

   Many of the short videos he watches on the internet have no volume control themselves and the only way to hear them is to bump up the master volume in Windows 10. We normally keep the volume at 30 but he often has to bump it up to 50 or so to even hear the audio portion of the video.

   The problem - he forgets to bring it back down and then I start to play a game and I get my ears blasted!

   I found an option in the speaker controls for "Loudness Equalization" but it distorts some sounds badly. That won't work.

   Is there an app or some way to trap the actual setting of the volume and display it on the taskbar itself or the desktop? The only thing on the desktop right now is the Recycle bin. Kinda like what ViewMinder does -- it's icon has the day of the month right on the icon (it changes every day).

   It would be nice for BOTH of us if we could figure this out.

   TIA!

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   ChrisS
   Administrator

   This article is a bit dated 5 Tools To Get An On Screen Volume Level Indicator so some may not work with Windows 10. I haven't tried any of them so I don't know how obtrusive they are or if you can get them to display in the taskbar.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Audio handling has long left something to be desired in Windows. What makes sense to me is to have the volume level setting tied to the Windows profile or account -- someone else logs in, they have their volume level set, and when you log in, your volume level is just as you left it. Unfortunately all I could find is that it's been suggested to Microsoft, but AFAIK never implemented. You can set volume levels for individual apps, BUT, the level for any app can't exceed the overall level you've set in Win10, so rather than setting the browser level to 100, and having everything else say 33, setting the browser to 100 sets everything to 100. The only way that would work is to set each and every game to a lower level -- Good Luck with that. So, trying to come up with different ideas for a bit, I'm left with browser extensions -- the only thing I can think of that should work, and there are browser extensions to set custom increased volume levels. Your husband could use the extension to increase the volume level that way, but Only in the browser. If you used the Chromium-based Edge, you can use regular Chrome extensions [I saw at least 2 for volume controls], and have that extension only active in your husband's Edge profile, so you wouldn't get blasted there either.

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   Dragonlair
   Member

   That's a good idea. I tried the site Chris listed and found one that did half of what I wanted - showed it but ONLY when changing or looking at the Realtek icon.

   We don't have different log ins, we never have! We both use the same profile. For us the "personal" means the device, not a separate log in.

   I'll have to look for a plug-in. It seems to be the CNN news videos that are the main problem!

   Posted 4 years ago #
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   mikiem2
   Moderator

   Browser profiles are separate from Windows -- you can have several browser profiles all while using the same Windows account. The new Edge, Opera, Chrome, & Firefox all let you create & use profiles.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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