How to configure system volume with PowerShell

Wed, 29 May 2013 16:53:47 +0000

Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post on how to mute Windows System Volume programmatically. This week I found another approach on GitHub using PowerShell.

The PowerShell Module WindowsAudioDevice-Powershell-Cmdlet** **provides a number of cmdlets to control the Windows System volume.

Get-DefaultAudioDevice
Get-AudioDeviceList
Set-DefaultAudioDevice [-Index]
Set-DefaultAudioDevice [-Name]
Set-DefaultAudioDevice [-InputObject]
Set-DefaultAudioDeviceVolume -Volume
Get-DefaultAudioDeviceVolume
Set-DefaultAudioDeviceMute
Write-DefaultAudioDeviceValue [-StreamValue

I wrote the below PowerShell script to solve a request to set the system volume to mute.

Mute Windows System Volume

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:46:36 +0000

I came across a forum post where someone asked how to programmatically mute the Windows System volume. So this is what I have found:

NirCmd

NirCmd from NirSoft is a small command-line utility that contains many smart functions like muting and unmuting the system volume.

To mute the system volume, simply run the following command

nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 1

and to unmute you run

nircmd.exe mutesysvolume 0

With VBScript

Another option is to use a VBscript, the following code I found here will mute or unmute the system volume

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How to configure system volume with PowerShell

Mute Windows System Volume