Lets take a quick look at one of those tweaks in the volume mixer.

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Using these simple steps you can adjust the overall volumes of certain programs without having to mess with the master volume of your system.

From the window that appears you can adjust the volumes of any application currently open on your computer.

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Open Volume Mixer Windows 7 Or Later

Read more July 16, 2020 If you are running Windows 7 or later, then you may have run into an odd behavior in your Windows experience.

If youre running a program that uses sound, you may have noticed the volume of your sound is automatically reduced when you run certain programs, such as Skype or games with audio chat channels.

This can be very frustrating and many users have been really upset at this seemingly random volume reduction problem.

Open Volume Mixer How To Stop It

In this article, I will show you why this happens, and how to stop it from happening again.

Whats Up, Redmond Longtime Microsoft watchers know that what you really have to watch out for isnt malevolent intention on the part of the Redmond-based software giant.

If Microsoft tries to be evil, they usually just mess it up and dont really do anything.

No, its when Microsoft tries to HELP that you have to look out, and this volume glitch is a sterling example of this phenomenon.

As the voice over IP (VoIP) services became more and more common here in the 21st century, Microsoft wanted to make the process of placing and receiving phone calls on the Windows desktop to be more seamless (youve surely noticed how you make and receive all your phone calls on your Windows machine now, right) To facilitate this, Microsoft added a feature starting in Windows 7 and present all the way through Windows 10 that attempts to detect when a user is making or receiving a VoIP call.

When the operating system thinks a call is being made, it automatically lowers the volume of other apps (or even mutes them) while the call is in progress.

Unfortunately, although this feature in and of itself is not an intrinsically stupid idea, it turns out that Windows is really, really bad at detecting whether something is a VoIP call or not.

Multiplayer games that contain a voice channel, for example, often trigger the feature, as do outright VoIP apps like Skype or Google Hangouts.

The real difficulty is that people using Skype or Hangouts or games usually have their relative volumes configured the way they want them configured when they start doing a chat.

Microsoft is doing the equivalent of rearranging your desk for you because Im sure you want things to be organized, right after youve just gotten everything the way you like it.

Thankfully, this immensely annoying feature can be easily disabled.

Step 1 All you need to do is launch your Control Panel or your Settings (depending on your Windows version) and head to the Sound configuration dialog.

Step 2 In the Sound configuration window, click on the Communications tab.

This is the location where this automatic reduction feature is configured.

It may be wise to restart your computer once changing this setting.

By default, the option to Reduce the volume of other sounds by 80 is selected.

If, however, you actually find this feature useful, you can further refine it by having Windows only reduce the volume of other apps by 50, or by having the operating system mute all other sounds entirely.

Troubleshooting If this hasnt helped your volume woes there are a few other things to think about before giving up.

Lets talk about some troubleshooting tips to help you if youre still having the problem.

Are your keyboard volume buttons clean We spend hours on our computers meaning debris, dust, and even food particles can become lodged in the keys.

Use an approved duster or clean cloth to remove any contaminants from your keyboard.