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To make everything louder you just need few steps and say voila, now you don’t have to suffer in silence from quiet music and videos. we have some awesome ways to pump up the volume.
In Windows 7, If you find Windows 7 strangely quiet, even when you’ve got your speaker volume set to maximum, you’re not alone; many users have found its sound feebler than on other operating systems. One way to make it louder is to go to Control Panel, ‘Hardware and Sound’, Sound and highlight your speakers (or headphones) in the ‘Select a playback device’ box. Click Properties, Enhancements and select the option Enable Loudness equalization.
And we have few more tricks to make Windows 7 louder.
Increase volume of AUDIO FILES: If you don’t use iTunes, you may prefer to make your MP3s louder. Our favourite tool for the job is MP3Gain, even though it hasn’t been updated for a while. Just drag audio files and folders to the software set a target volume and click Track Gain to increase the tracks’ decibel level. The free program is also useful for making
Increase volume in BBC IPLAYER: Want to watch your favourite shows on BBC iPlayer at full blast? Then hover your mouse over the on-screen volume control and move it all the way past 10 to 11. Brilliantly, a blog by a member of the iPlayer’s design team confirms this is an intentional reference to the “these go to 11” speakers scene in This is Spinal Tap
Increase volume in Tablets and smartphones: If you’d like your Nexus 7 or your Android phone to be a little louder, there are several free apps that can help. One of the simplest and best is Speaker Boost, which increases the volume of your speaker and headphones when you’re playing music and films (it doesn’t make phone calls any louder, though). If you want something fancier, try Music Volume EQ, which offers a five-band equalizer with BassBoost and nine custom presets, so you can switch between different volume settings. For iPhones and iPads, VolumeBoost Free promises to make your device three times louder than the default setting and automatically adjusts the volume depending on whether you’re using the speaker or headphones.
Increase volume in iTunes Music: You can boost the volume of individual tracks in iTunes by right-clicking them and choosing Get Info. Click the Options tab and drag the ‘Volume adjustment’ slider bar to the right to make the song as loud as you want. To increase the volume of your entire iTunes library, go to Edit, Preferences and click the Playback tab. Select Sound Enhancer and drag the slider bar towards the ‘high’ setting. This will boost the bass and treble frequencies of all music you play in iTunes, making the sound more punchy and crisp. You should also make sure the Sound Check option is unticked. This attempts to ‘normalise’ the volume of all the songs in your collection but often makes many tracks quieter.
How To Increase Laptop Volume Beyond Maximum Windows 7
Nowadays a lot of keyboards often have additional on-board functional keys which are used to perform specific tasks. With the help of such keys you can adjust sound volume, run browser or Calendar app, mail client and perform other tasks. Such keyboards are often very addictive, because you can manage your things in a much faster and easier way!
In case there is no multimedia keys on your keyboard, you can set any custom key shortcuts to perform these tasks. And that doesn’t mean you can use this trick only to adjust sound volume — you can use this method to set shortcuts for dozens of operations that can be performed with a multiple clicks.
Adjust Sound Volume Using Key Shortcut
Increase Sound Volume Windows 7
- At first we need to download a small utility —NirCmd. Download the utility and place it to a random folder (for example, C:Nircmd);
- Now we need to create the shortcut that will run the needed specified command;
- Go to a random folder (you can also use your Desktop if you like). Right click on empty area and choose New –> Shortcut;
Tip. We recommend you to create a shortcuts only in system folders. - At this step you need to specify the command that shortcut will run. In our case the folder is C:NircmdNircmd.exe and the command is changesysvolume 2000 (it will increase the volume to 2000 (min – 0, max – 65535), or you can set it according to your needs):
- Click on Next and give a name to new shortcut. For example, Increase Volume;
Increase Laptop Volume Windows 7 Install
Now we have a shortcut on our desktop which will increase a volume level on the computer after run. Of course, adjusting sound level by clicking on a shortcut is definitely not the best way to do this. That’s why it might needed to set key shortcut to perform this command. To do this, follow the instructions:
Windows 7 Volume Boost
- Right click on created earlier shortcut and choose its Properties;
- Switch to the Shortcut key field. Press keys that you want to use as a key shortcut for this command (you can use any keys, for example — Ctrl + Alt + Q);
- If you want — you can assign an icon for this shortcut. To do this click on Change Icon;
- Press ОK and save all the changes. Right after that you will get the ability to adjust sound level by using assigned key shortcut.
Tip. To make a volume level lower you need to create another shortcuts by using method as mentioned above. But this time use command changesysvolume -2000 to make volume level lower and mutesysvolume 2 to mute sound at all.
How Increase Volume Laptop Windows 7
Here are a few commands that can be useful:
- nircmd.exe setsysvolume 65535— adjust volume level to maximum;
- nircmd.exe monitor off— turn off your monitor (this can be useful when you need to turn off your monitor fast);
- nircmd.exe exitwin poweroff— turn off the computer;
- nircmd.exe standby— switch your machine to standby mode;
- nircmd.exe clipboard clear— clear your clipboard.
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Important! In case you will change Nircmd utility destination folder, you will need to edit all shortcuts or to create them from scratch again.