Hello Mike,
Yes, I use Windows 8.1 and I've successfully disabled the lowering of
the volume during communications (Skype calls). To open the "Run"
dialog, you press Windows+R. The command "mmsys.cpl" actually opens
"Sound" from the Control Panel. If you go to Control Panel -> Sound,
you'll land in the same dialog that appears when you execute the
"mmsys.cpl" command in the "Run" dialog.
Note: In order for "Sound" (and all other Control Panel" items) to
appear at one level (and not in categories) in the Control Panel view,
you have to change the view of the Control Panel from "Categories" to
either "Large icons" or "Small icons". That is done in the "Control
Panel" window, from a button in there, witch has a "View by" label,
witch however neither JAWS nor NVDA speak. The button is located in the
TAB order after the "Search" edit field.
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Best wishes,
Kostadin Kolev
На 31.1.2015 г. в 14:55, Mike Bernard via Skypeenglish написа:
Hi everyone,
When you’re listening to either live streaming and/or a winamp or any
other playlist of music, and skype rings, have you ever noticed how the
volume of both your screen reader and the music are automatically turned
down? While I can understand that this may be made to happen to allow
you to hear your skype call more easily, sometimes it can be down right
annoying. I checked on the skype community page, and someone suggested
that Windows itself is actually causing this to happen, not skype, and
to stop this from happening you had to do the following:
1. Open the Run Command
2. Enter or Type mmsys.cpl
3. Click the Communications tab
4. Select Do Nothing
5. Save.
This will work fine if you have either vista or windows 7, but I have
windows 8.1, and therefore, my start menu is setup quite differently
than the one that comes with the lower versions of windows. As a result,
unlike the vista or windows 7 start menu, in the windows 8.1 start menu,
I don’t have a run dialog. If I type run into the start menu, I get lots
of results that have the word run in them, but none of them pertain to
anything that’s even close to what would be the run dialog. For any of
you who have windows 8.1, have you ever delt with this? And is there a
way to stop skype/and/or windows from turnning down the volume when a
skype call comes in? Thanks.
Mike
Rochester, NY.
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