Using Task Scheduler to Mute System Volume

mccoady said:

Yes I’m running 64 bit Windows 10 and the file path of NirCmd shows it as 64 bit.

I’m copying and pasting the commands from http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html . I didn’t try monitor off command but did try command to open cd door (changed drive letter) and it didn’t work. Guess I can try that but expect the same results.

I think where I could be going wrong is how I’m inputting the commands on the Action tab. I’m browsing to file path C:\Windows\nircmd.exe which is correct. Now under “Arguments” do I Input nirmcd.exe monitor off?

You're doing fine. My fault for not realising sooner... which is why I amended my previous post.

Open a commandlne window (CMD, not PowerShell) and try nircmd.exe monitor off.

RickC said:

You're doing fine. My fault for not realising sooner... which is why I amended my previous post.

Open a commandlne window (CMD, not PowerShell) and try nircmd.exe monitor off.

Yes that works.

I also just created a desktop shortcut for mutesyvolume 2 and it works.

So apparently it has something to do with how I'm setting up Task Scheduler?

mccoady said:

Yes that works.

Excellent! Have fun playing with nircmd.

Sorry but I don't have any familiarity with Task Scheduler (apart from scripting the deletion of a number of default tasks).

RickC said:

Excellent! Have fun playing with nircmd.

Sorry but I don't have any familiarity with Task Scheduler (apart from scripting the deletion of a number of default tasks).

Thanks maybe dalchina will jump back in and can figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Try3 said:

mccoady,

Since there has been a diversion as you tried using the other commands as tests, please could you post what your Task scheduler task definition has now become?

What does the Task history tab say?

Denis

Well it says the History is disabled how come?

First thing this morning I created another mutesyvolume 2 task and left all settings at default. To my surprise it muted the volume but after changing the time to trigger it again it won't repeat muting the volume... have tried several times. Below are my settings.

@ Try3
I actually started out using values 0 & 1 but then went to 2.

@ dalchina
I actually got it to work using Prompt & desktop shortcut as stated earlier.

What I'm finding out is after creating the task it's not always enabling the task. It shows it's enabled when creating the task but once I finish and go back to Task Scheduler Library it sometimes shows disabled. It does this a lot when I edit the time. If I manually enable it it probably works 80% of the time.

When I say 80% I mean most of the time I set it to mute it works but then doesn't always work to unmute.

Guess I'll go ahead and set a schedule to mute daily at 10:00 PM & unmute at 8:30 AM to see what happens. If it will just mute each night I suppose I could live with that although don't know why it's not more consistent.