When you right-click on the Volume Control icon in Windows 10 and click on Open Volume Mixer, you see the Volume Mixer Control box open up. In Windows 11, the Settings app opens with these settings.

How to Increase the Sound Volume on a PC. If you're having a hard time hearing business presentations, productivity "mood" music or your video conference calls, your volume may be set too low ...

The volume icon problem doesn’t seem to affect the actual audio from the PC. It works fine, and you can use hardware on the keyboard or the PC to control volume, but the software doesn’t work.

Windows: If your keyboard doesn't have handy volume controls, or you just want something that requires no effort at all, free utility Volumouse lets you control your PC's volume with your mouse wheel.

That said, I have lived with a worn out volume pot on my Klipsch ProMedia v.2-400 for the last 20 years or so, it seems. I just use the Windows volume control on the keyboard. Works very well.

We have tried removing the volume control from the taskbar of his Windows 7 PC, but as soon as he gets onto YouTube he can override our setting with the onscreen control.

What Causes a Computer Volume to Suddenly Go Mute?. Whether you're putting on a presentation or want some music for the office, an unreliable audio signal can be both unprofessional and annoying ...