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Exponential Volume Control is a free program that runs silently in the background on your computer. It makes your volume level change by very small amounts at low volumes, and by larger amounts at high volumes. In addition, you can customize which keys on your keyboard change the volume. Make any key combination change the volume or mute/unmute. This is especially useful for laptop users who have to keep their volume level very low when they use headphones. A single press of the volume up key usually makes the volume unbearably loud. Exponential Volume Control gives you more fine-tune control at lower volumes. Give it a try. Once your volume control is exponential, you'll never go back to the old linear way.
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"As Advertised"
Version: Exponential Volume Control 1
Pros
- Great low level volume control
- Retains useful high level volume control
- Doesn't try to do too muchCons
- The mechanism for associating meta-keys (Ctrl, Alt, Shift) with the volume change/mute keys is goofy
- "Easing" is a bit of an odd name ("acceleration" is used for similar behavior with mouse movement, for example)
- No control panel configurationSummary
I've been annoyed by the large steps by which volume changes in Windows when using the volume up/down buttons on my computers. This tool permits me to make those steps smaller, which means finer control. However, doing that means that, at higher volume levels, the changes are almost imperceptible. For that, I adjusted the "Easing" control to its maximum. Now, I can finely adjust the volume at low levels and get useful changes at higher levels. Perfect!
I called the means of setting the mute and volume up/down keys "goofy" previously. It could be made so much easier by simply allowing the user to press the desired key combination. As it is, for each operation, there's a drop down list box of modifiers (Ctrl, Alt, ...) and a drop down list box with far too many items representing the available keys. Many key names are easy enough to understand, like "F3," "U," and "VolumeUp," but many others have non-intuitive names like "D5," "Oem1," and "OemOpenBrackets." If you're thinking that "Oem1" represents the numeric keypad "1" key, think again. There's also "NumPad1." As for "OemOpenBrackets," I'm stumped. "Brackets" can refer to parentheses, curly braces, and square brackets, to use the names with which I'm familiar, and I have no idea to what the "Oem" prefix refers.
The app is the configuration interface. In normal operation, EVC is hidden. While there's no mention of it, EVC installs itself in the Windows registry to automatically start each time you boot your computer. If you remove that registry entry, EVC doesn't add it again, so it may be the installer that does it. (You can run the app with /hide to make it run without seeing it on the screen, so you can put it in your Startup folder or run it from a tool like Startup Delayer.)
I've only tried it on Windows XP so far.
Updated on Jun 2, 2011
Updated on Jul 25, 2011Tried on Windows 7. Whenever I press a volume button the application fails with a .NET exception. I hope there's a fix! -
"Good idea, bad information"
Version: Exponential Volume Control 1
Pros
Quick and simple idea. Exactly what I'm looking for.
Cons
Wanted this to work first time out. Doing the hotkeys after setting them created a .net error message. Unable to fix.
