Is the audio coming from your Windows 11 PC's speakers or headphones too loud or too serenity? It's easy to adjust your book output hands using several unlike techniques. Hither'south how.

Change System Book With Quick Settings

The quickest fashion to adjust sound book inside Windows xi is past using the Quick Settings menu. To exercise and so, click the Quick Settings button in your taskbar (a hidden push button located on top of the Wi-Fi, Speaker, and/or Battery icons) in the far-right corner.

When the Quick Settings bill of fare appears, locate the volume slider (with a speaker icon beside it). Tap or click the circle on the slider and drag it right or left to increase or decrease the system volume anywhere from 0 to 100. As y'all move the slider, notice that the speaker icon changes from more to fewer wave lines (or vice-versa).

Use the volume slider in Quick Settings to change sound volume.

Y'all tin can also rapidly mute your Windows xi sound output completely past clicking the speaker icon beside the volume slider. When muted, the speaker icon volition have a small "X" abreast it. To unmute, click the icon again.

Once yous take the volume how you like it, close Quick Settings by clicking outside the carte. Any fourth dimension you lot need to quickly adjust the volume again, simply re-open the Quick Settings card.

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Alter System Volume in Windows Settings

Yous tin too change your PC'southward volume Windows Settings (by pressing Windows+i) and navigating to System > Sound. Alternately, right-click the speaker icon in your taskbar and select "Sound Settings."

In System > Sound, locate the "Output" section and select the device you lot want to change the sound level for by clicking the circle beside it. Later that, arrange the "Volume" slider up or downward to make the audio output louder or quieter.

Select the sound output device you want to adjust, then use the volume slider.

(As with the Quick Settings carte, Windows allows you lot to click the speaker icon itself to mute the system book completely.)

You can echo these steps with whatever output device recognized past Settings. But you lot'll simply hear sound output through the device that is selected in the "Output" list. When yous're finished, close the Settings app.

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Change System Book Using Hardware Buttons

Many Windows tablets (such as the Surface line) include physical hardware volume upwardly and down buttons somewhere on the device—usually on one of the side edges. Sometimes it's merely a single push button that rocks back and along for upwardly or downwards volume adjustment. To adjust the audio volume using those, press the volume up or down buttons until you've reached the volume you'd like.

Microsoft Surface tablet buttons.
Microsoft

As you adjust, y'all'll see a small popular-up display in the upper-left corner of the screen that displays the current system volume.

Also, some keyboards include volume up, volume downwardly, and mute keys or buttons—and some even sport volume knobs. The volume changes you lot make with these buttons, keys, or knobs volition be reflected in Quick Settings and the Settings app just equally if you had used the "Volume" sliders in Windows 11. Happy listening!

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