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Jo-Anne
Thank you, Tim! Works beautifully! I'll copy it to my netbook too.
Jo-Anne
Jo-Anne
Tim Meddick said:Plus, here's the [vb] code to toggle volume muting :
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set WShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WShell.SendKeys chr(173)
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...copy / paste the above two lines of text into Notepad and save, giving
it a name with a [*.vbs] extension (e.g. "TVOL.VBS" ).
If you then either place the file on your desktop or use shortcut to the
[*.vbs] file (you can define your own icon to it with a shortcut), and
double-click on it to toggle volume "mute".
Okay, you have your keyboard button - but in my experience, it never hurts
to have as many ways to do well-used operations as possible...
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
Jo-Anne said:Thank you, Tim! I do have TweakUI and will now see what else I can do
with it. It's also definitely time that I look seriously at what my
keyboard offers.
Jo-Anne
Tim Meddick said:Depending on your make and model of keyboard, other functions you may
find can include;
Media Player Buttons;
"Previous Track" / "Skip Backwards"
"Stop"
"Play" / "Pause"
"Next Track" / "Skip Forwards"
Internet Functions;
"Back" (Previous Page)
"Forward" (Next Page)
"HomePage" (Open Default Browser)
"Email" (Open Default Email Client)
Close Windows Options;
"Shutdown" (button)
"Sleep" / "Suspend" (button)
If you only have a single "Sleep" or "Shutdown" button - you can change
it's function to Shutdown / Suspend / Hibernate or "Ask me...", from
the "Advanced" (tab) of the Power Options control panel extension.
If you download and install the [free] TweakUI.exe utility for XP from
Microsoft, there's an included "Command Buttons" section that allows you
to configure many of those special keyboard buttons and customise what
they do. Useful if you never use some of their current functions - you
can change what they do, to something you might actually use!
Download the small TweakUI installation file from the link below :
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...a6-b352-839afb2a2679/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.
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I've taken to watching videos on my WinXP laptop. I mute the ads by
left-clicking on the volume button in the system tray, then checking
or unchecking the "mute" box. Is there a way to put "mute" in the
taskbar or system tray in a way that I can simply toggle it on and
off? I Googled this issue but couldn't find anything specific to XP.
If there's a reliable 3rd party application, that would be OK too.
A Google search for "mute windows sound by shortcut" produced several
promising results - the top 3 each used a different approach, two used
different third-party utilities (free), the other used a .vbs.
--
Zaphod
Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, ya know? - Gag Halfrunt
Thank you, Zaphod! I'm going to add your post to my hard drive for
future reference. In the meantime, Alias and mm pointed out that I
could have a Mute button on my keyboard--and indeed I do. It just never
occurred to me to look there.
Jo-Anne
