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Change Volume With Hotkey or Mouse Wheel in Windows

You can change volume in Windows by clicking on the volume icon on the system tray and then either scroll your mouse wheel up/down or drag the slider until you get the desired volume level. Clicking on the Mixer option will open the Volume Mixer panel where you can change volume more specifically. This should be already easy for everyone to use, but if you want another volume control that lets you increase or decrease volume with hotkey or mouse wheel, you should really try Volume Sqr.

Volume Sqr is a free volume control application that lets you adjust the volume sound either by rotating mouse wheel, pressing a keyboard hotkey shortcut, or move mouse to screen edges.

Interestingly, it has a scheduler that you can make use of to automatically change the volume to a certain level at a specific time. I personally use the scheduler to decrease volume at around midnight because I have a habit to fall asleep in front of my computer while my AIMP mp3 player is playing some music.

Let’s take a look at how to use the application.

The program sits on tray instantly once you run it. Double-click its tray icon to display the Options window.

Change volume with Keyboard Hotkey

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Click on the “Keyboard”. Hit the “Add” button to add a new hotkey. Click the down-arrow of the “Action” box to choose an action. It lets you increase or decrease volume level, display the volume mixer or playback devices and mute sound. Type your custom hotkey in the “Keys combination” box. Then hit Apply to activate your setting. Test the hotkey to find out if it already works.

Control volume with Mouse wheel

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Click on the “Mouse” within the Options window. There you can specify which actions to be performed when you click the program’s icon on the tray. Mute sound with middle-click, use a combination of a key and mouse wheel to change volume, rotating mouse wheel on taskbar or desktop to adjust the volume, and many more.

Move mouse cursor to screen edges to change volume

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Click on the “Screen edge”. Then check off the “Change volume when move mouse along screen’s edge” to enable the option. You can choose which edges to activate the control and the control method used to decrease/increase volume. When you move mouse cursor to one of the specified edges, a vertical line appears. Depending your preferred control method, you can move cursor up/down or scrolling mouse wheel up/down to change volume.

An on-screen display (OSD) is displayed whenever you change sound. This OSD can be changed as well. The program provides quite many OSD skins to choose from. The display position on the screen can also be adjusted to your own liking.

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You can also set the program to play a sound after you change the volume to let you know if you already get the desired sound level. There are 16 WAV files to choose from within the application. Volume Sqr works with Windows and it supports a number of languages. A portable version is available within the download page.



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