Strange Master Volume Action

Within the past month or two I have experienced some strange
happenings related to Master Volume.

I will be listening to music (source being hard drive or web
sites) and the volume might be too loud at the beginning of
a tune. I left click on the Sys Tray speaker icon to get to
the volume control. When I try to lower the volume, by left
clicking on the slider to drag it down, the slider/volume
jumps up everytime I left click it. I am unable to grab the
slider with a left click to drag it down until I mute the
sound.

Have any of you run into this?

Sometimes when the sound starts off too loud I have muted
then "right clicked" the speaker icon to Open Volume
Controls and found the Wave Volume maxed out.

What can cause this to happen?

Hope my explanation is coherent enough for you to help.
Thank you.

Hey Job,
If the ol' memory serves me correctly, I had that on the Me box. On
mine, IIRC, there was another sound program that was actually in control and
changes had to be made from there. Changes to the Master Volume panel, as
you described, would simply jump back to where they were. See if you have
some other sound program with controls.
Heirloom, old and down to one


"Job" wrote in message
...
Within the past month or two I have experienced some strange
happenings related to Master Volume.

I will be listening to music (source being hard drive or web
sites) and the volume might be too loud at the beginning of
a tune. I left click on the Sys Tray speaker icon to get to
the volume control. When I try to lower the volume, by left
clicking on the slider to drag it down, the slider/volume
jumps up everytime I left click it. I am unable to grab the
slider with a left click to drag it down until I mute the
sound.

Have any of you run into this?

Sometimes when the sound starts off too loud I have muted
then "right clicked" the speaker icon to Open Volume
Controls and found the Wave Volume maxed out.

What can cause this to happen?

Hope my explanation is coherent enough for you to help.
Thank you.

Hi Heirloom,

My apology for being so late getting back to you and here's
hoping the new year is treating you well.

In case the mutterings of my original post were unclear, my
glitch only happens occasionally and I haven't been able to
pinpoint any set of conditions that are in place when the
glitch occurs.

As to:
snip Changes to the Master Volume panel,......... , would
simply jump back to where they were.snip The changes stay
where I set them once I mute the
sound and am able to grab the slider with a left click to
drag it down.

As to:
snipSee if you have some other sound program with
controls.snip
'Loom, the only others with control that I can find/think of
are my players such as Windows Media Player, Media Player
Classic, etc. Neither of them appear to be causing the
glitch.

Thanks for your response.

Job asks, "Alright, who stole our Winter weather?"


"Heirloom" wrote in message
...
Hey Job,
If the ol' memory serves me correctly, I had that on
the Me box. On
mine, IIRC, there was another sound program that was
actually in control and
changes had to be made from there. Changes to the Master
Volume panel, as
you described, would simply jump back to where they were.
See if you have
some other sound program with controls.
Heirloom, old and down to one


"Job" wrote in message
...
Within the past month or two I have experienced some
strange
happenings related to Master Volume.

I will be listening to music (source being hard drive or
web
sites) and the volume might be too loud at the beginning
of
a tune. I left click on the Sys Tray speaker icon to get
to
the volume control. When I try to lower the volume, by
left
clicking on the slider to drag it down, the slider/volume
jumps up everytime I left click it. I am unable to grab
the
slider with a left click to drag it down until I mute the
sound.

Have any of you run into this?

Sometimes when the sound starts off too loud I have muted
then "right clicked" the speaker icon to Open Volume
Controls and found the Wave Volume maxed out.

What can cause this to happen?

Hope my explanation is coherent enough for you to help.
Thank you.