Topic: [IMPLEMENTED] Mute during KTD
I'd like to request a new feature of muting the sound while appling Keep-the-Drivers. On the laptops I use, every time the "unsigned driver" window appears, the laptop beeps. When keeping all the drivers, including 3rd party, this makes a lot of noise. The mute/volume buttons on the laptop are software controlled and don't work during this time. Also, oddly, having headphones plugged in does not disable the internal speaker. Very annoying to me. Unacceptable to my neighbors.
I've implemented a manual solution for this. Since I use RUNONCEEX, I added a prior entry to mute, and a following entry to unmute as follows:
SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx
REG ADD %KEY%\936 /VE /D "Mute Speaker" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\936 /V 1 /D "%~d0\$OEM$\mute.exe on" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\938 /VE /D "unMute Speaker" /f
REG ADD %KEY%\938 /V 1 /D "%~d0\$OEM$\mute.exe off" /f
(Note: I leave the DriverPacks at the defaulut 937.)
Since I couldn't find a reliable built-in mute method, I downloaded a file called "mute.exe" from:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_d … 480,00.asp
This does the job for me. I thought others might benefit and it might be a nice feature for a future release.
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