Tired of double clicking the icon lie in the systray to modify the volume of your sound box or microphone Do you believe that you can adjust and mute your computer's volume with a simple mouse scroll or click of a button. How about adding additional functions to your standard volume controller No problem! An enganced sound volume controller can give you a hand! There is a funny and handy enganced sound volume controlling tool I will recommend to you. That is Volumouse. Following is the detailed introduction of this useful tool. Don't believe what I say Well then why not experience it yourself now!

Volumouse is a utility which can enable our mouse to be used as our volume control tool. With Volumouse we need not struggle to find our volume button on our computers. We can simply use the scrolling functionality of our mouse wheel to increase and decrease volume. The tool can be customized for use by us. We can specify the actions which we need to perform in order to convert our mouse wheel into a volume controller. For example, set the mouse wheel rules as seen on the interface as Alt key is down, left mouse button is down and so on. Only when all these actions specified are performed, the mouse wheel can be used for setting the volume. If any of the actions are not performed, the mouse wheel will be performing the normal scrolling actions. We can also specify the startup and display options of the utility. Volumouse supports most Windows versions and can be easily installed without complications.

The key functions and benefits of this useful tool include:

Volumouse provides us a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on our system - simply by rolling the wheel of our wheel mouse. When we run Volumouse, the main options window is displayed, in order to allow us to configure Volumouse according to our needs. We can always return again to the "options" window by clicking on the tray icon of Volumouse. Volumouse allows us to define up to 5 different rules for determining when and how the wheel should be used to control the sound volume. When we run Volumouse in the first time, it defines for us 2 default rules: When the alt key is down and when the left mouse button is down. We can accept the default settings by pressing OK button, or change the rules list according to our preferences.

Volumouse allows us to define a set of rules for determining when the wheel will be used for changing the sound volume. When the conditions that we define are not satisfied, our mouse wheel will be used for the regular scrolling tasks, exactly as before.

Volumouse works on almost any recent variants of Windows, include: Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista. Specially, Under Vista, there is no default mixer device anymore, but we can select the default playback and recording device in the component combo-box. Under Vista, we can select more 6 channels, in addition to the 2 standard left and right channels. Under Vista, changing the master volume doesn't affect the default left/right balance, as in the previous version of Windows.

Volumouse provides a few useful additional plugins for us. Such as: HideThisApp Plugin - Allows us to hide the active window by pressing a key combination, and showing it again by pressing another key combination. MoveResize Plugin - allows us to resize or move the current active window by rolling the mouse wheel or by pressing a hot-key. OpenCloseCD Plugin - allows us to open and close the door of our CD-ROM/DVD by rolling the mouse wheel or by pressing a hot-key.

In addition, Volumouse provides more rule options for us. Such as: Activate the rule only after: Allows us to activate the rule only after specified number of wheel moves. Left/Right Balance: Allows us to control the balance of left and right channels. For example: If we want that the volume of the left channel will always be 50% of the right channel volume, set the right value to 1.0 and the left value to 0.5 On-Screen Indicator: Allows us display an indicator on the screen when we use the wheel for adjusting the volume. Non-Sound Components: Volumouse was originally created for controlling the sound volume with the mouse wheel. Window Transparency (Works only on Windows 2000/XP): Allows us make any window transparent ! In order to use this feature, define a new rule with this component, go with mouse cursor to the window that we want to make transparent, hold down the right keys or buttons according the the condition that we chose, and then scroll down the wheel to make the window transparent! Screen Brightness: Allows us to change the brightness of the entire screen. Important Notice: Changing the screen brightness is achieved by setting the gamma ramp values into the video card. Unfortunately, many video cards don't support this feature, so the "Screen Brightness" component may not work in our system.

We can even creating plugins for Volumouse. If we're a C++ programmer, and we want to add new components to Volumouse, and respond with our own code when the mouse wheel is scrolled, we can do that by creating a new plugin for Volumouse.

In a word, Volumouse is must have tool for multimedia professionals, music houses, TV showrooms, DJ's, music composers and auditoriums. What are you waiting for Get and try it now!

Volumouse 1.72 is a Mouse & Keyboard product from nirsoft.net, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, Volumouse is a unique and convenient utility, that allows you to adjust your speaker volume by using your mouse wheel. In order to preserve other functionalities of your mouse wheel, the software offers several combinations, so that volume adjusting will only be used when for example an additional keyboard key is pressed.
We liked the option best, which would automatically use the mouse wheel for volume adjustment when you move your pointer over the taskbar - anywhere else on the screen, the mousewheel has the standard functionality. There are various combinations available, including an option that will only use the mouse wheel for volume if Media Player is in the foreground. The license of this windows utility software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Windows Utility software.