How to change the volume in Windows using the mouse wheel? Everyone knows how to change the volume on a Windows PC via the speaker icon in the notification area. First we need to click on the speaker icon and then a slider control opens where we can easily adjust the system volume. The appearance of this slider control has changed since the Windows XP times, but the basic concept has remained the same.
How to Change Volume in Windows Using the Mouse Wheel
Another convenient method of changing the system volume in Windows is a multimedia keyboard that comes with dedicated volume up and volume down keys. Most laptops come with function keys that can be used to increase or decrease the system volume.
But now someone has come up with an even simpler way to change the volume using the mouse wheel over the speaker icon. As you scroll up using the mouse wheel, the volume will increase. And similarly, the volume can be decreased by scrolling -down on the speaker icon. But for this we need a special open source software called tb-vol-scroll.
tb-vol-scroll places another speaker icon in the system tray that responds to the mouse wheel. The speaker color is also set to yellow to indicate that the operating system has no speaker icon. We can place the cursor over this speaker icon and use the mouse wheel to adjust the system volume. We can also right-click on this speaker to access the system audio mixer and audio playback devices settings.
In the tb-vol-scroll configuration window, we can choose to display the volume bar when adjusting the system volume using the scroll operation. We can also make the speaker icon appear as text instead of graphics. We can set how much the volume changes each time we scroll.
The swipe action can be combined with special keys like Shift, Alt and Ctrl to perform some other actions. For example, when we swipe the speaker while pressing Ctrl, it will mute or unmute the sound. For people who think that swiping up should decrease the sound and swiping down should increase it, there is an option to invert the swipe action.
To use the tb-vol-scroll tool, please visit https://github.com/dvingerh/tb-vol-scroll.
