Hey,
I believe messenger is far too loud.

I run other programs at 100% volume, and they are fine - so i cant turn down the speakers...

I usually just turn down WLM in the volume menu in Vista, but when i close messenger, or restart the computer, the volume returns to 100% and is far too loud again.

Is there a way in messenger to turn down the volume?

Is there a way I can get Vista to remember what setting I have the volume on for each program?

Thanks,
Nick

Too loud? Are you using Messenger 2009, because the sounds in that version are much softer than the previous versions. All the complaints I heard were sounds being too soft.

Yes, see my sig?

I have volume cranked right up to suit other programs better... So most programs are too loud (when i listen to music it has to be set at 10% and its still way too loud! )

Thanks
Nick

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Yes, see my sig?

I have volume cranked right up to suit other programs better... So most programs are too loud (when i listen to music it has to be set at 10% and its still way too loud! )

Thanks
Nick

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Originally posted by Dr Nick
Yes, see my sig?

I have volume cranked right up to suit other programs better... So most programs are too loud (when i listen to music it has to be set at 10% and its still way too loud! )

Thanks
Nick

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If most programs are too loud then maybe you should put the volume lower by default and then just increase the volume for individual programs when you're using those ones that need to be a bit louder

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Originally posted by Dr Nick
Yes, see my sig?

I have volume cranked right up to suit other programs better... So most programs are too loud (when i listen to music it has to be set at 10% and its still way too loud! )

Thanks
Nick

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If most programs are too loud then maybe you should put the volume lower by default and then just increase the volume for individual programs when you're using those ones that need to be a bit louder

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I would, but there isn't any possible way to have the volume of certain programs about 100%, so the volume must be set for the softest ones, and set lower for the loud ones... AFAIK

Thanks
Nick

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You're using Vista (according to your sig), which means that you can just click the volume icon in the system tray, click mixer and lower WLM's volume.
Simple as that

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Originally posted by Mike
You're using Vista (according to your sig), which means that you can just click the volume icon in the system tray, click mixer and lower WLM's volume.
Simple as that

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I usually just turn down WLM in the volume menu in Vista, but when i close messenger, or restart the computer, the volume returns to 100% and is far too loud again.

Is there a way I can get Vista to remember what setting I have the volume on for each program?

Thanks,
Nick

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Originally posted by Mike
You're using Vista (according to your sig), which means that you can just click the volume icon in the system tray, click mixer and lower WLM's volume.
Simple as that

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Originally posted by Dr Nick

I usually just turn down WLM in the volume menu in Vista, but when i close messenger, or restart the computer, the volume returns to 100% and is far too loud again.

Is there a way I can get Vista to remember what setting I have the volume on for each program?

Thanks,
Nick

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Hmm, I'm fairly sure that individual volume settings save between restarts for me.

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what do you mean?

if the majority of programs are too loud, then turn your main volume control down (and it will stay down), then when you're using programs that need to be a bit louder, just turn them up individually.

You should set things so that they're right for the majority of things, so that you only need to adjust in the minority of cases.

Just turn your overall volume down and then most things will be normal volume......and when you're using one of the programs that needs to be a bit louder, go and manually turn that one up

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Hmm, I'm fairly sure that individual volume settings save between restarts for me.

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One thing that you may want to try is to lower the volume of WLM's sound files...

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what do you mean?

if the majority of programs are too loud, then turn your main volume control down (and it will stay down), then when you're using programs that need to be a bit louder, just turn them up individually.

You should set things so that they're right for the majority of things, so that you only need to adjust in the minority of cases.

Just turn your overall volume down and then most things will be normal volume......and when you're using one of the programs that needs to be a bit louder, go and manually turn that one up

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I will do this if I find no other way. It just means that when I use things that aren't very loud, and have the volume turned right up, the other programs will be very loud.

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I run these programs at 100%...

Its impossible to turn them up louder than that

Thanks
Nick

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I run these programs at 100%...

Its impossible to turn them up louder than that

Thanks
Nick

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I run these programs at 100%...

Its impossible to turn them up louder than that

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Yes, but I'm saying that you don't have to run everything else at 100%!!!!

When you're running these other programs, just turn THOSE ONES up to 100% and then everything else will still be at a normal level, and WLM won't be loud.

I don't know how many ways I can say it, this is what i've said in every post in this thread and still you don't understand

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I run these programs at 100%...

Its impossible to turn them up louder than that

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Nick

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Yes, but I'm saying that you don't have to run everything else at 100%!!!!

When you're running these other programs, just turn THOSE ONES up to 100% and then everything else will still be at a normal level, and WLM won't be loud.

I don't know how many ways I can say it, this is what i've said in every post in this thread and still you don't understand

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except you can't set a program's individual volume slider higher than the system volume...

also, OP, stop being a wuss.

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Yes you can......if the system volume is set to 60% (as mine is), so that most programs function at a normal sound level, then when he uses one of these 'quieter' ones, he goes to the mixer, slides up that individual slider and then only that program is operating louder

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OK, Sorry, djdannyp. There seems to have been a misunderstanding.

This is exactly what I have been doing, but for some reason WLM  sets itself to 100% whenever I reboot, or close and re-open it.

Therefore when I start up the computer or whatever, it is once again very loud, and I must manually go through and set its volume down again.

I was wondering if there was a way to get WLM to remember its volume setting, so I wouldn't have to do this.

Other programs seem to work fine, eg Media player keeps itself at 10% no matter what I do, and my flight sim sits at 20% each time I open it.

WLM seems to be the only program that doesn't "remember" its volume setting, and I think this has only happened since I updated to 2009...

Any ideas?
Thanks
Nick

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Originally posted by djdannyp
Yes you can......if the system volume is set to 60% (as mine is), so that most programs function at a normal sound level, then when he uses one of these 'quieter' ones, he goes to the mixer, slides up that individual slider and then only that program is operating louder

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no, when he slides up the individual slider it will just turn up the system volume with it, and leave the other programs at a reduced volume, which isn't what he wants because individual program volumes are not remembered after the app closes

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