A Guide to Changing the Sound Level on Windows 11

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The post provides a guide on adjusting sound volume on Windows 11, either via the Quick Settings menu or the Windows settings app. When using Quick Settings, activating it can be done by clicking a hidden button on top of the Wi-Fi, Speaker, and Battery icons, and adjusting with a slider. The Windows settings app…

This post shows students and new users steps to change or adjust the sound volume on Windows 11.

When the Sound coming out of your computer is too loud or low, Windows allows you to quickly adjust the volume from the Quick settings panel and the Windows settings app.

When using Windows 11, the quickest way to adjust the sound volume is from the Quick Settings menu. You can activate the Quick settings menu by clicking a hidden or translucent button on top of the Wi-Fi, Speaker, and Battery icons.

Click the Taskbar at the bottom right corner to activate the Quick Settings menu. Then, the slider moves the volume control to the desired level.

To adjust the sound volume on Windows 11, follow the steps below.

How to increase or decrease the sound volume on Windows 11

As mentioned above, Windows allows you to quickly adjust the sound volume when you need to increase or decrease the Sound from your computer.

The easiest way to do this is from the Quick settings menu. The Quick settings menu is a hidden button on top of the Wi-Fi, Speaker, and Battery icons.

Once you click on the Quick settings button, it should open the menu. You can use the slider to adjust the volume on your PC.

Bring the slider left to lower the volume and right to increase it.

How to turn off or mute Sound on Windows 11

If you wish to mute sounds from your PC quickly, simply move the slider to the left and bring the sound level to 0.

You should see an x on the speaker icon indicating the Sound is turned off.

How to adjust the Sound from the Windows settings app

One can also use the Windows settings app to adjust the volume on Windows 11. If you right-click on the Quick settings area of the Taskbar, it should give you Sound settings options, as shown below.

Click on Sound settings to open the Windows app and bring up the Sound settings.

You can independently adjust each volume if you have multiple sound devices. Select the sound device you want to adjust the volume for and move the slider left to decrease and right to increase the Sound.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to quickly increase or decrease the sound volume on Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.

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One response to “A Guide to Changing the Sound Level on Windows 11”

  1. Bryan Franklin Snead Avatar
    Bryan Franklin Snead

    Is there any way I can control the volume from the taskbar?

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