Mute Button

[cx]

JC:

Is there a mute button on the keyboard?

Like if you are trying to read a site that has pewt some loud background music(?) with it and a fella wants to read but he don't wanna listen.

I know this gotta be an easy one.

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[Rob Z]

Mark this down as the ONLY time I will be able to give confuser related advice here at JBS.

Kelly, click on the volume thingy for your speakers on the desktop (looks like a rectangle with a slide bar in it), and up will come the volume controler and a mute feature.

At least it does on my confuser.

Z

[cx]

That's four steps each way on my machine, Rob.

Was hopin' there was one'a them shortcut keys ol' JC's always showin' us.

But you were right about where it COULD be found! :D

[Rob Z]

Kelly

My volume clicker-doodle is always showing on the right side of the screen. Yours must be hidden??

I'm bummed that I didn't really have a solution for the confuser problem.

Got any Q's about tile??

[Bud Cline]

I have a mute key on my keyboard. Right next to the volume up and volume down keys. Hell doesn't everybody?

[Rob Z]

WOW! Mine works now! None of that was working back when the CD thing wasn't working. It all works now. Very mysterious.

[cx]

My laptop has volume buttons on the keyboard, Bud, but not a mute button. Desktop ain't got no such buttons.

Don't got no volume cliker-doodle on the screen neither, Rob. Maybe JC can pewt me one there.

Quien sabe?

[Rob Z]

The other day my desktop switched itself around and all the icons went to different parts of the screen. Must be Bill Gates messing with me...

[Bud Cline]

My desktop used to do that all the time but haven't noticed it in months. What's that all about do you suppose?

[JC]

Well you can do this a number of ways.

One by making a batch file in DOS that sets a hotkey button for doing this.
Another way is to use macros and have a hotkey pre-selected to open up the program sound recorder and then using a keystroke/mouse recorder hit the mute button.
here's a real nice program that will do it but it has a annoying 'nag' screen unless you buy it.Shareware

http://www.americansys.com/ezmacros.htm

hers one that just assigns buttons to open programs but will not click on the mute button after the program is open(save a couple of steps)Freeware

http://www.tucows.co.nz/system/preview/195745.html

These programs help greatly.


Let me surf a little and find a free macro program so you can just hit one button.

[JC]

Interesting woodworking software link?

Scroll down to see this special software?

http://www.woodweb.com/Resources/RSSoftwareConnection.html

Hope it is useful to some of us.

Very interesting stuff, have fun

[flatfloor]

Hey Guys, hellooo? I have a volume control on my speakers, or is that too simple?

[JC]

The guy wants a keyboard button, im just trying to give him a keyboard button. Besides reaching all the way over to the speakers can be pretty unsettling sometimes..hehe

[flatfloor]

True JC true. The last time I reached out to my volume control knob I toppled out of my chair onto the dog who promptly bit me:)

[JC]

Yea everytime I reach over my chair slips off of the cheapo plastic floor mat and I have to get up and pick it up and reset it..Gosh that annoys me to no end

[John Bridge]

14-year-old boy is a sure-fire mute for computer speakers. Stole mine, promising I'd get them back or get new ones.

Blissful silence ever since. ;)

[cx]

JC:
Thanks for searching this (I guess that could be computerese for researching?). The only place I'm familiar with Macros is in my word program. There are such things for the DOS? Hey, we listen, we learn.

That woodweb site has some interesting links. I'll have to look through it.

flatfloor:
Well, Buckley, I just have one thing to say about that, buddy...............Hell, I never even thought of it! :o

John:
Don't have no 14 year-old. Didn't need one until a few weeks ago when, after about eight months, I decided to hook up my speakers. I did that so I could hear my modem, of course, only to be told here that my modem 'sposed to have its own damn speaker and I still can't hear it. As pointed out above, we listen, we learn. But I ain't desperate enough to want no 14 year-old. No, no, no. Not moi, gracias very mucho.

[John Bridge]

Geez, somebody tole you to tern your motel spker on sever weks ago. You ain't done it?

[cx]

Nope, ain't even took off the cover of the tower to see do I even got a speaker.

I be in the tryin' to catch up three weeks behind in a three month project. I got so much behind I maybe look like Momma Cass.

[That's old guys humor] :D

[Sonnie Layne]

Well, if I were ever given to kiss one...

Had lunch and wine with her one day.

Depressing, but intelligent.

[Sonnie Layne]

Hey if ya wanna turn on your internal speaker so's you can hear it dial up and handshake, go into dialup networking from "My Computer. Highlight the connection to enable speaker, select under modem "configure" and you'll see a sliding scale.

[John Bridge]

Hold it, Sonnie. You sayin' you had lunch with Cass Elliot?

[cx]

Sounds like what he said, but I bet it wasn't recently, eh?

Sonnie:
Already been through all that. It's the opinion of the experts here that I don't have a speaker on my modem, and that sound doesn't come through the external speakers.

Me, I ain't tooken the time to open the tower yet to look see if there's one in there. But I'm afixin' to. Maybe soon.

[flatfloor]

Didn't MaMa Cass choke on some food while she was out to lunch with someone?

[John Bridge]

You know, I still have the original LPs. One of the best groups that ever was. Damned near as good as the Eagles.

(Naw, nobody's as good as the Eagles.)

[flatfloor]

Me too, how about the 5th Dimension? (John, we going to get abused now because we didn't (I still don't) know who Yes was, is?)

Can you write a sentence with parentesis within parentisis and wuznt you going to get spell check?

[Bud Cline]

In 1974, Cass Elliot travelled to London where she had a two week engagement at the London Palladium. After performing to sellout audiences and basking in repeated ovations, Cass tragically succumbed to a heart attack on July 29, 1974 in London, following this successful concert tour.

http://www.casselliot.com/graphics/cass1.jpg

[Cami A]

Eagles- best ever? Maybeeeee....right after Aerosmith. I like Yes, even had a few tapes, but all I can remember now is "Owner of a Lonely Heart". Still a good song!

[cx]

Well, we was all tryin' to hep ol' flatfloor quit smokin', so it only seems fair we should find some counseling for poor Cami, no?

Jim: Your county got patches for Forum addiction?

C(call me Woodbutcher)X :D

[John Bridge]

Jim,

Found out who "Yes" is. Just never heard of them.

Aerosmith? (Naw, just joking).

Forgot about spell check, what with trying to get everything moved, etc. Still can't mess with it. Got too many bugs to get out of the forums first.

"Hotel California"

There is no help for board junkies. There is help for everyone else, but not board junkies. :(