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This will adjust your Master Volume in Windows Vista/7 to any level you wish, after a set amount of idle time. It will also fade the volume down and back up to normal, rather then an abrupt change. All of this is adjustable via the GUI when you run the app. It will create the settings.ini for you automatically on first use.

Idle Volume Adjuster v1.4 (by djvj).zip

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Updated to v1.1

- Now has an easy to use GUI

- Settings ini created on first use and stores your settings. Just extract to its own folder and run.

- No longer have to compile, all ready for immediate use.

- Does not need ahk or any other software installed.

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Great job. Does this work for versions of Windows before 7? If so that'd be sweet as well. Thanks boss.

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Thanks, it uses Windows Vista Audio Library that was introduced with Vista, so no. It can be converted to work with SoundGet and SoundSet (which is a lot slower), but not on my todo list as I won't ever touch XP again.

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Thanks, it uses Windows Vista Audio Library that was introduced with Vista, so no. It can be converted to work with SoundGet and SoundSet (which is a lot slower), but not on my todo list as I won't ever touch XP again.

Thanks for the reply, and was just curious because I have an old NES machine w/Win XP (other than that PC agree with you on the XP thing.)

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No, I don't use XP anymore as Win7 is much better at pretty much everything. And the library this uses was written for Vista+

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Hey DJVJ, is there a way to just make this run on startup without having to OK the settings everytime? I want to have zero user interaction... Thank you!

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Hey DJVJ, is there a way to just make this run on startup without having to OK the settings everytime? I want to have zero user interaction... Thank you!

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Great suggestion, dunno why I didn't think of that!

Updated to v1.2 to support launching hidden. See first post for download.

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Love the program. I just have one quick question though djvj. Is it possible to load and exit this program when you bootup and exit hyperspin? I can't add another program to hyperspins startup (that I know of) because I have Hidestaskbar.exe in HyperHQ. So is there another way to startup with hyperspin (and exit?)?

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Updated to v1.3

Added hotkey to pause/resume the tool from user request.

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Just so you know, I learned how to do CLI commands on already running ahk scripts. So 1.4 will include CLI support to pause/resume the tool.

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  • Added CLI support. You can now send "pause" or "resume" to the tool while it is running if you don't want to use the hotkey method to handle these functions.
  • Pausing will now always return volume to the original volume your system was at when you first ran the tool. So feel free to pause even when the system is idled and know volume will be normalized.
  • Tooltip now shows when you are paused if you have them enabled for debugging purposes.
  • You can now disable the pause hotkey by just deleting it from the GUI, it will no longer default back to the Pause key if missing.

I included some batch files so you can see how CLI works. Just run them in the same folder the tool is in. Not sure what else I can add, so this might be the final release.

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It does master volume, not per app volume. If you find a way to do per-app volume adjusting, I'd be interested and can add support for it in.

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hmm ok, well remind me sometime after HL is done if you still need it.

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