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| VolumeLock |
| Prevent volume settings of your PC from being changed unexpectedly |
"Among other things I've done in my life, I've worked as a musician for a videogame company. We made a music game for MTV. So you can bet I know computers and I know sound. More than many folks and perhaps more than is really healthy!
Each program has a volume control... but also assumes I want to change my Windows settings as well. Of course, that isn't the case! I just want to set them and leave them alone. But no... I'm forever having to fiddle and mess about with things. It's a thoroughly pointless waste of time, which should be spent more productively. After all, I have better things to tweak!
The worst culprit of late, is a certain free internet telephone that constantly tries to hijack my volume settings, despite telling it NOT to! It actually moves the sliders on my volume panel and there is nothing I can do to stop it. My favorite music player is equally guilty of this minor but stressful misdemeanor, changing my master volume instead of thinking purely about its own output.
Finally, I decided to do something about this problem. I scoured through a pile of search engine results and found, at length, a download for something called 'Volume Lock'. It does exactly what the name implies.
It locks volume settings exactly where you want them, and even has a variety of 'profiles' for different times and locations. For example, quiet settings for those late night FPS bouts of carnage, or everything muted for complete audio stealth. It's up to you. Set them how you like and store your preferences in a list, for later recall.
The program has a tiny memory footprint, residing in your system tray. It has a wealth of options. It costs very little. And there is a free trial period, so you can put it through its paces before handing over your hard earned savings. You really can't go wrong! Download it and say "goodbye" to annoying volume discrepancies forever!" |
Nick Pendriis |
Main features of VolumeLock
- User-friendly, multilingual interface with themes support.
- Controls volume, balance and mute/select audio lines in real-time.
- Assignment the customized rules for any volume control.
- Controls any number of volume controls at the same time.
- Unlimited, fully customized user presets for quick rules setup.
- Password protection to prevent unauthorized access.
- Supports customizable system-wide hot keys for presets.
- Displays lock status in the tray icon.
- Works with multiple sound cards simultaneously.
- Built-in scheduler with greater facilities.
- Command-line support for use in a batch file or script.
- Automatic loading of the program at the system start-up.
- Can work as service or as an ordinary application.
- Works on Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
If you need more features not listed above, simply contact us.
Supported languages
 English Arabic (thanks to Jynx D5) Chinese (thanks to Chris Cheng and Kon Chonkiang) Dutch (thanks to Omer Yasar Can) French (thanks to Renaud Smets) German (thanks to Kurt Lettmaier) Hungarian (thanks to Hevesi Janos) Italian (thanks to Fabrizio Pani) Korean (thanks to Taewon Yun) Russian (thanks to Dmitry Grishin) Swedish (thanks to Leif Larsson) Turkish (thanks to Alper Ozgur)
Any help to translate VolumeLock to other languages is welcome!
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