SafePC · Quick settings
Adjust the sound
Turn the computer's sound up, down and off.
Step by step
- Click the Wi-Fi / sound icons, at the bottom right. At the very bottom right of the screen, just left of the date and time, there are two small icons: the Wi-Fi waves and a speaker. Click on them (they work as one button): a panel called "Quick settings" opens above them.
- Drag the volume slider. In the Quick settings panel, the sound control is the long line at the bottom, with a round knob on it. Hold the mouse button down on the knob and drag it left or right, then let go: the number at the right end of the line changes with the volume.
- Mute the sound. Click the small speaker icon at the left end of the volume line: the sound is turned off (muted) and the number at the right end shows 0.
- Turn the sound back on. Click the same speaker icon again, at the left end of the volume line: the sound comes back and the number goes up again.
These steps are written for SafePC, a pretend Windows-style computer in your web browser. On your own computer, the buttons and menus may look a little different, but the idea is the same.
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