November 2004
Beginner
704 pages
22h 51m
English
Content preview from Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
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Sounds and Audio Devices
The five tabs within this panel control every aspect of your microphone, speakers, and associated software
Volume Tab
These controls govern the speaker volume for your system, but you’d be crazy to open the Control Panel and this program every time you want to adjust your PC speakers. Fortunately, the “Place volume icon in the taskbar” checkbox puts a speaker icon in your notification area, near the time display. Click that icon to open a much more convenient volume slider.
This dialog box also offers these buttons:
Advanced. Opens the Volume Control program described in Section 7.4.3.
Speaker Volume. Produces sliders that let you set the left and right channel volumes of your PC’s audio independently. (This essentially duplicates the function of the Balance slider in the Volume Control program, but at least you can’t claim you’re unable to adjust your speaker balance.)
Figure 8-20. The Program Events list box presents every conceivable category in which a sound is played: Windows, NetMeeting, Windows Explorer, and so on. (The installers for some programs—America Online, for example—may add categories of their own.)
Advanced (yes, there’s a second Advanced button, this one at the bottom of the dialog box, in the Speaker settings section). If you’re an audiophile whose PC is the center of the sound system, this one is for you. It opens an Advanced Audio Properties ...
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