Here's our Windows NT Tip for.. January 28, 2003
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Volume Control
If you'd like to use the CD-ROM drive to listen music while you work, you may be in for some surprises when you set the volume control to suit the music. Picture this: You put in a music disc and then turn up the volume on the speaker system. Along comes a warning beep and it's at an ear-splitting level. The problem is that there are just too many ways to set volume. So why not take some time to tweak them all?

Put a music disc into the drive and set the speaker volume to approximately half (12 O'clock). Next, set the level on the CD Player. Next, double-click on the speaker icon in the taskbar. When the dialog box opens, set the CD Audio level to about 50 percent. Now set the volume (the control on the left side of the dialog box) to produce the level you want for the 12 O'clock speaker setting.

Now you need to see how loud those WAV sounds are. Open Windows NT Explorer, locate Winnt\Media and double-click on a few of the WAV sounds to see how they sound. Set the Wave Output level to get the WAV sounds at approximately the same level as the music. You may want the WAV sounds just a bit louder so you can hear them over the music. When you've finished with your settings, click on the Close box to close the Volume Control dialog box.