![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m tempted to try MicSwitch for the onscreen display, but it doesn’t look like it does volume up and volume down, so I think I’m going to stick with my current approach for a while longer, especially since it seems to be pretty stable and glitch-free. You can configure three and four finger taps and swipes. They all work fine, but unlike speaker volume/status, I don’t get an onscreen or Notification-Area status indicator for the microphone, because neither Microsoft nor my laptop manufacturer supplied one. Go to the Devices group of settings and select the Touchpad tab. And then I used AutoHotkey to make keyboard shortcuts for running the new commands.Īnyway, now my “dedicated” microphone-volume keys are the same as my “dedicated” speaker-volume keys, but with an Alt modifier key. So, I used Nirsoft Utilities’ SoundVolumeView to extract the SoundVolumeView command-line argument for toggling my microphone array between muted and unmuted (super-easy, as in two clicks), and then I edited *that* argument a little to make some “mic volume up 2%” and “mic volume down 2%” command-line arguments (also very easy). (Super-convenient, right? You can get there faster by running %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL mmsys.cpl,1 but that’s *still* not very convenient.) To configure the shortcut to mute/unmute the mic, right-click the apps icon in the system tray and select Setup shortcut.A small window will open. I couldn’t find any microphone volume controls on my laptop other than in classic Control Panel > Sound > Recording tab > Properties > Levels. It’s no substitute for a hardware cut-off switch, but not a lot of laptops come with those. I try to keep my mic muted by default and unmute it when needed. “Do you mute / unmute your microphone regularly?” ![]()
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