Comments on: Control speaker volume on your PC by scrolling mouse wheel

By: Nirish

Nirish — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:37:42 +0000

I love programs from NirSoft. Volmouse is one of those little gems out there that I can’t live without. Other than scrolling a web page, the middle scroll wheel has been pretty useless. Now I use it to control the volume on my PC all the time.

By: Ian Valencia

Ian Valencia — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:50:35 +0000

I came across 3RVX, excellent freeware app that does just what I wanted. Though it only works for volume keys now, it might include othe media keys in future versions. Very nice, small footprint (under 5 MB), and skinnable. Get it here: matt.malensek.net/software

By: Ian Valencia

Ian Valencia — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:12:56 +0000

Volumouse is just perfect. It’s small, fast, and stable. I’ve been using it for years! Highly recommendable.

It’s not related to Volumouse, but I thought this would be a good place to ask: I’ve been looking for a program that can show OSD messages when you use multimedia keys (volume up, volume down, next track, previous track, play, pause, etc). Exactly the kind of controls “built onto the chassis near the keyboard” that you mentioned?

The closest one I’ve found (it has to be freeware, and work with Vista) is Sound Volume Hotkeys, but it just shows volume level, and it doesn’t even catch the volume keys of the laptop, it just works with it’s own hotkey (Win+ArrowUp,ArrowDown). Being fair, it’s pretty good at what it does. You can checkit out here: http://www.softarium.com/soundvolumehotkeys/

Do you know of any such app? BTW, great site!