One of my annoyances with the sound mixer in Windows is that you have to keep popping back and forth between the "Play" mixer and the "Record" controls mixer, which can get to be a pain if you are constantly messing with both the play and record settings.
I solved the dilemma kind of by accident. I added a shortcut to the mixer in my startup folder so that it would run everytime windows started. I set the properties in the shortcut to load and run minimized so that it would always be available on the taskbar.
Just for grins, I added a "/r" command to the target properties so that the Target commnd line looked like this:
%SystemRoot%\system32\sndvol32.exe /r
Lo and behold, when I clicked on the shortcut, the mixer opened in the record controls mode, rather than in play mode! So, I added a second shortcut in the startup menu with the "/r" removed. Now, when Windows starts, it opens up 2 copies of the mixer on the taskbar - one in the Play controls mode, and one in the Record controls mode. A quick click on the appropriate taskbar icon now gets me quickly to the control I need.
I solved the dilemma kind of by accident. I added a shortcut to the mixer in my startup folder so that it would run everytime windows started. I set the properties in the shortcut to load and run minimized so that it would always be available on the taskbar.
Just for grins, I added a "/r" command to the target properties so that the Target commnd line looked like this:
%SystemRoot%\system32\sndvol32.exe /r
Lo and behold, when I clicked on the shortcut, the mixer opened in the record controls mode, rather than in play mode! So, I added a second shortcut in the startup menu with the "/r" removed. Now, when Windows starts, it opens up 2 copies of the mixer on the taskbar - one in the Play controls mode, and one in the Record controls mode. A quick click on the appropriate taskbar icon now gets me quickly to the control I need.