SndVolPlus is a tiny standalone app, that’s a replacement for the standard Windows volume control icon.
SndVolPlus Volume Control
It functions exactly the same as the original “SndVol.exe”, with two huge extras:
Windows 7 Volume Mixer
I wrote it out of frustration when I couldn’t easily mute Windows Media Center when watching live television. Now that I can, I’ve put it up so you can to! This, like most of my recent projects, is BSD licensed open source, with it’s own repository on BitBucket (link).
If you’ve ever clicked on some file in Windows and seen this dialog box, you know what I’m talking about:
The web service is completely useless, and most of the time you already know what program you want to use to open the file. Luckily, it is easy to disable this dialog box with Default Programs Editor (download). Simply launch the program, and click on the Options button:
Options button
Then, click the button that says
Disable 'Search web for unknown extension' Dialog Box
Disable 'Search web for unknown extension' Dialog Box
And that’s it!
Now, when you try to open a file with an unknown extension, Windows will skip the unknown extension dialog and display the “Open With…” window to choose a program.