SndVolPlus Volume Control

It functions exactly the same as the original "SndVol.exe", with two huge extras:

• Middle clicking the volume icon toggles mute
• Double clicking it opens the Volume Mixer directly

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).

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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.

Here is some sweet stuff you can do with it:

• Manually add extension information
• Change a file type's description
• Change a file type's icon
• Change an extension's associated file type
• Add/Edit/Delete an extension's default association
• Add/Edit/Delete other entries on the file's context menu
• Preserve verb precedence hierarchy
• View shell extension entries on the context menu
• Remove 'Default Programs' association that Windows likes to make annoying to change
• Add/Edit/Delete your own autoplay handlers
• Change which autoplay options are available for users
• Disable that "Search web for unknown extension" dialog
• Single .exe utility, no installation

On top of all that, here are some bonus features:

• Make changes direct to the registry, or export them as .reg files for easy distribution
• Designed for Vista, with UAC support, so you can painlessly run as a standard user
• Works with XP too (a few features disabled, just use TweakUI)
• Make changes to your user account, or the machine default, or both

Documentation is admittedly sparse right now, but here are some how-to's:

• Set Media Player Classic to Autoplay DVDs
• Change the "Edit" command on a batch file context menu

Feel free to email me with any suggestions or questions.

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete]
"Append Completion"="Yes"

If you're not in the mood to manually edit your registry, I've put that into this handy registry key file.

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