Sound Settings Moved ?

OtherWay1982 · 25 Oct 2019

I noticed a annoyance past few months.
Sound settings hidden away in new modern win 10 settings menu .

I want this menu back at the front.

How do i get this back in the Task bar drop down ?

Sound Settings Moved ?-sound-settings.png

dalchina · 25 Oct 2019

Hi, are you referring perhaps to the change in options available from the volume icon in 1903? (Sounds missing from context menu)
How to access Control panel sound settings on Windows 10 1903
https://www.tenforums.com/windows-10-news/133029-how-get-windows-10-may-2019-update-version-1903-a-72.html

This was raised in a thread a little while back, but I can't find it right now.
Post #3 here:
Finding the Sound control from Settings
is relevant and may suggest a way forward- e.g. a shortcut.

Likewise
explorer shell:::{F2DDFC82-8F12-4CDD-B7DC-D4FE1425AA4D}
from
CLSID Key (GUID) Shortcuts List for Windows 10

I use a useful freeware program called Volume2- right click its tray icon, clicking Playback shows that CP dialogue.
Volume2 also provides scroll control and middle click mute of volume when hovering over the taskbar, amongst other things.

LEOPEVA64 · 25 Oct 2019

In 20H1 Microsoft has restored the "Sounds" option in the Speaker’s context menu on the Task bar, meanwhile (as other users have said) you can use third-party programs, I also use Volume².

Flight notes build 18956 (20H1):

OtherWay1982 · 25 Oct 2019

Right clicking that sound icon, only shows these options in system tray ,
closest of which is the menu showed in the first image i shared.
Which forces me to press a button there, to get to settings i want .

oh well. Ill read the first reply closer.

- - - Updated - - -

This shortcut will do for now

mmsys.cpl sounds

and ill look into that app mentioned by dalchina

Bree · 25 Oct 2019

OtherWay1982 said:

Sound settings hidden away in new modern win 10 settings menu...

With each new version of Windows 10, more controls are migrating from Control Panel to the Settings App. Settings is the 'new CP'.

The older Control Panel version is still available in 1903 from Settings via the 'Sound Control Panel' link here:

LEOPEVA64 · 25 Oct 2019

Bree said:

The older Control Panel version is still available in 1903 from Settings via the 'Sound Control Panel' link here:

I think OtherWay1982 already knows that, look at the image of the first post of this thread.