Sound Tips N Tricks
This is the page for sound tips and will updated weekly if we can find loads more for you. This page was set up for beginners, in fact there is no such thing. If you cant spend a lot of time in front of your pc then you don't get the chance to learn the little tricks that we get hold of and have mastered over the years. Some of you advanced user like myself may find this section useful as well as when I was doing the page I came across 2 additions I got hold of from a friend I was not aware of and will be using now. So alas as I say here is a few tips and I hope it is of use to you at some point. Click on the orange txt header and it will take you right the part of how to do it.
Did you lose your speaker icon? Do you want to get rid of your speaker icon? Get rid of those boring default sounds. Get maximum sound out of your speakers.
Did you lose your speaker icon? Do you want to get rid of your speaker icon? Win95/98 1. Click the Start button, Settings, Control Panel. Open the Multimedia icon. 2. On the Audio tab, you'll see a little checkbox labelled "Show volume control on the taskbar". If you want to see the little yellow speaker, make sure it's checked. If you don't want to see it, uncheck it. Win ME/XP 1. Click the Start button, Settings, Control Panel. Open the Sounds & Multimedia icon. 2. On the Sounds or Volume tab, you'll see a little checkbox towards the bottom labeled "Show/Place volume control on the taskbar." If you want to see the little yellow/gray speaker, make sure it's checked. If you don't want to see it, uncheck it. Get rid of those boring default sounds. If you don't like the dull, boring, simple little sounds that Windows typically produces, you can change them. Here's how: First, click your Start button, Settings, Control panel (XP users, hit the Start button, Control Panel). You should see an icon for either Sounds or Sounds & Audio Devices. Double-click it. A screen should pop up that lets you change your sound scheme or create one of your own. With XP, you'll need to hit the Sounds tab in order to get to this section. Any of the
items (events) you see that have a little speaker by them currently have a sound
assigned. If an event has a sound and you wish it didn't, just click the event and select "none" from the "Name" or (if you're using XP) the "Sounds" drop down box (you'll find "none" is at the top of the drop box). What if you have an event you want a sound for, but the current sound is really, really annoying? Ahh, not to worry! You can change individual sounds by selecting the event you want and clicking the Browse button. XP users can choose sounds from the Sounds drop box too. Of course, you can choose a completely new set of sounds from the Sound scheme drop down box if you like. That's always fun too. One more thing. Windows uses WAV files for its sounds, so you can easily customize Window's sounds to your liking, assuming you have extra WAV files laying around.
Get maximum sound out of your speakers.
1.
Click the Start button, Settings, Control
panel. Open the Multimedia
icon. XP users, you need to hit the Start
button, Control Panel, then
open the Sounds & Audio Devices
icon. Nothing like consistency from version to version huh? 2. Under the Audio tab, click the Advanced Properties button (in XP, it's just called the Advanced button).
Using
the drop box on that screen, you can tell Windows what your speaker arrangement
is. Everything from headphones to surround sound.
Having a hard time with your sound? Even though the speaker volume is turned up all the way, it's still not loud enough. Any ideas?
Make sure the Master is slid all the way up. You may want to do the same with the other sliders if the sound still isn't loud enough.
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