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This screen controls every aspect of your microphone and speakers:

Choose your output device, of course, lets you specify where
your computer should play its sound: the built-in speakers? A

Bluetooth wireless speaker? Headphones? Choose from this drop-
down menu.

Volume. This slider is your PC’s master volume slider. (There are
of course more efficient ways to adjust the volume—like using
your volume keys or the volume control on your system tray.)

Troubleshoot. Opens the sound “troubleshooter,” which walks you
through some steps to figure out why you’re not hearing anything.

Input. What microphone should your PC “listen to”? Of course,
your machine probably has only one—but you know. Just in case.

There’s a live microphone-testing graph here, too, which dances

around as it hears sound, and another Troubleshoot button.

App volume and device preferences. This feature lets you adjust

volume levels and microphone/speaker setups individually for apps
or devices connected to your PC. You know: headphones for
Spotify, built-in speaker for error beeps. (Apps have to be specially
written to hook into this feature; you may not see many listed here

at first.)

Bluetooth and other devices. Opens the panel described on

“Remote Desktop”.

Sound control panel. Opens the panel described on “Desktop icon

settings”.

Notifications & Actions

Here you can tame the notifications—the little bubbles that pop onto your

screen to alert you about this or that—that might otherwise interrupt you to
insanity (“Taskbar Toolbars”).