How to Setup Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial for Beginners

Welcome to Windows 10 Tutorials for beginners and today, you are going to learn how to use Windows 10 Sound settings effectively. Sound of computer is very important and you can control it from the sound settings of windows settings. For working of Windows 10 speakers, it needs Soundcard and sound driver installed in your computer. You will Sound driver from the Windows 10 Updates.

Here, you can learn how to choose your output audio device, Audio device properties, How to adjust volume, Input sound device (Microphone) & its properties and Other App volume and device preferences. 

Let us learn Windows 10 audio settings one by one.

What is Windows 10 Sound Settings?

It is main sound control station of Windows 10 OS, which helps to select output and input devices, controlling of sound devices and its properties. It have another ability to control the Windows apps volume individually as per requirements too.  Windows Sound contains System sounds, apps sounds and main master volume. The master volume controls the all Windows 10 sounds output and input devices. But to adjust system sounds and apps sounds, you have do it separately.

For getting Windows sound, your computers should needed Windows soundcard and audio driver. The combination of these two items helps to give output as sound. You get it from Windows store or will get automatically while updating your Windows 10.

How to Decrease or Increase Volume Windows 10 | Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial 1

For increasing or decreasing the volume Windows 10 is very simple to do it. It can directly access it from right corner side of windows taskbar. Click on the sound icon and decrease or increase volume by using your mouse or left/right arrow buttons in your keyboard.

Or

You can go to Windows 10 Startmenu and click on the “Settings app”.

From the appearing dialogue box, click on the “System tab”. Then, you can see the Windows 10 system settings.

Click on the “Sound settings” from the sidebar and you will see the windows 10 audio settings here.

You can see the sound control like as seen earlier from the taskbar.

Or

Via Taskbar

You can go to the windows 10 taskbar and right click on the sound icon on it to see the sound menu.

From that, select the “Open Sound Settings” and you will directly access to the Windows 10 audio settings interface.

How to Choose Output Audio Device | Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial 2

This is feature helps to choose output audio devices as Windows speakers or S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface). S/PDIF helps to coinnect with various consumer audio output devices like 5.1 surround spearker system.

First connect your consumer audio output to S/PDIF audio port.

By default, windows 10 spearkers selected here. Click on the down arrow to select required audio  device.

How to Connect Microphone to Windows 10 | Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial 3

Microphone is an input device which helps to record sound using it. Here, you will learn to connect microphone to your computer.

First, connect mic or microphone to audio port.

Then, go to Input section in Windows sound settings and choose the input device.

Test your Microphone

You can test microphone by making sound on it. Youi will see the sound level meter blinking on it.

Note: if you experince any problems, clcik on “Troubleshoot” button and give solution for it.

How to Adjust System Sound and App Sound | Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial 4

Using Windows Sound Settings Tab

In the “Sound Settings tab”, click on the “App volume and device preferences” under the Other Sound Options.

Now, you can see the “App volume and device prefernces” dialogue box. 

Here, you see the master volume, system sound and app sound.

For changing the system sound, increase or decrease the system sound meter using mouse or your right/left arrow in keyboard.

You have do the same thing on adjusting app sound too. Th apps sound is only applicable when an app is opened condtion.

Using Windows Taskbar

Go to windows 10 taskbar and use right mouse button to openthe sound menu from sound icon. And click on the “open sound mixer” to access the sound mixer. Here you can change the system sound and required app sound too.

Windows 10 Speaker Properties | Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial 5

How to access Speaker Properties

To access the speaker properties, you have to go to the sound settings and click on the “device properties”. It will open the “Speaker properties” dialogue box.

Here you can see 5 sub tabs for the speaker properties dialogue box.

General

It contains the speakers icon, controller information & their propeties, jack information and enable or disbale device option. Here, you can change the speakers displayed icon by using the change icon option also.

For disabling the currently used speaker, just select “don’t use the device (disable)” by clicking on the down arrow.

Levels

It is audio level of the speaker system and increse by dragging the button right or to left for decrease.

Click on the “Balance” option to control the left side and right side speakers sound sepeartely.

Enhancements

You have certain enhancemenst or audio effects imporving features available in here. You can use it any of these to apply to your speakers system. The enhnacemenst provided are bass boost, Virtual surround, room correction and loudness equliazation. You can enable it by giving tick on their side box.

If you messed up with any settings, don’t worry about it. And click on “Restore Defaults” button to reset to default windows settings.

Advanced

Here, you can select the sample rate and bit depth whilke running in the shared mode. Select quality of audio format and use the “Test” button to test it with your speaker system.

Spatial Sound

This is new feature which helps to select the Spatial sound format such as Windows sonic for headphones and Dolby Atoms for headphones. You can also turn on 7.1 virtual surround sound option to enahance the audio while using it with headphones. For setting up the Dolby Atmos option, you need solid internet connection.

Windows 10 Sound Control Panel | Windows 10 Sound Settings Tutorial

Sound control panle is another important part of Windows audio settings which controls the playback, recording, System Sound scheme and Communications. Sound scheme is depends on your windows theme and which enables new system and apps sound schemes. Communication tab helps to minimize the system sound while making phone calls or receving it via your PC.

How to Access Sound Control Panel

Using Windows taskbar

Use the right mouse button on sound icon in the windows taskbar. From the appearing menu, select “Sound” option and you can see the sound control panel.

Using Windows 10 Sound Settings

Click on the “Sound control panel” in the sound setting UI.

How to Configure Playback Speaker in Windows 10

From the Sound control panel, clcik on the “playback tab”.

You can see list of enabled audio devices in it. The audi device with side meter indicates its default device and sound meter will vary while playing any music.

Then, click on the “configure” option.

You can see the Speaker setup dialogue box. Here you can select the Audio cahnnels as “stereo”. You can run a test to checak on your current speaker system, by clicking on the “Test” button.

Click on “Next” move to the “Select full range speakers” box. Select the requoired speaker and sound of each speaker can test by clicking on the speaker icon.

Again click “next” to “finish” to complete speaker configuration.

How to Configure a Microphone for Sound Recording in Windows 10

In the sound control panel, clcik on the “recording tab” to see the enabled microphone list.

Click on the “Configure” button and it direct to “Speech Recogontion” dialogue box in Windows 10 control panel.

Select “setup microphone” option and dircet to Microphone setup wizard.

You can see 3 microphone options; Heaset microphone, Desktop microphone and other microphones. 

Here,  I am using the Philips headset microphone and select it and click on “Next”.

It direct to page with proper placement and set up your headset microphone. Click “Next” button.

Next page you can see sentence which is shown in the above image. Just read it slowly. Make sure your voice level should reach the green colored indication for getting proper microphone sound setup.

After reading it, click on “Next” button.

If you read it by the above requirements the configuraing of microphone is finshed. Click on “finish” button.

Otherwise, it will show that your microphone is Muted. Please check your microphone sound.

I hope you could understand how to use Windows 10 sound settings for adjsuting sound, connceting S/PDIF and microphone, configure speakers system and microphone.

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How to Change Screen Resolution Windows 10

Welcome to Windows 10 tutorials for beginners and today, you are going to learn to change screen resolution Windows 10. Screen resolution is an important factor which helps to control the quality of display settings and screen size. Here, you can see step by step windows 10 tutorial for changing resolution of the windows 10 screen using both windows 10 display setting and from context menu.

Let us see step by step tutorial to change screen resolution Windows 10.

What is Screen Resolution?

Screen resolution is related display settings and it helps to get clarity to letters, text, videos or pictures displayed in a screen. It is measured in pixels. Higher the resolution means it have more clarity and high pixel ratio. For lower resolution means, display have lower pixel ratio and low quality display.

How to Change Screen Resolution Windows 10 using Settings App

Step 1

Click on Windows 10 StartMenu and select Windows 10 Settings app from it.

Step 2

Open the Settings app by clicking on it. You can see the Windows settings user interface.

Select the “System” tab from the settings UI. It opens with system settings dialogue box.

Select “Display” from the sidebar and you can see the display option here. You can see the “Resolution” under the Scale and Layout heading.

Click on the down arrow button to see various screen resolution pixel measures. It varies from 1366 x 768 pixels (high screen resolution) to 800 x 600 pixels (low screen resolution).

Select required screen resolution as per your need. Then a quick dialogue box will appear like ass shown below.

Click on the “Keep changes”. If you want cancel the selection “Revert”. This is one of the way to change screen resolution windows 10.

How to Change Screen Resolution Windows 10 using Context menu

There is another method to change screen resolution Windows 10, it is using Context menu from Desktop.

Go to Desktop and click right mouse button in the empty space of desktop. From the appearing Drop-down menu, select “Display Settings”.

It is directing the same Display settings app as shown above. You can change screen resolution Windows 10 by following the same step.

I hope you could get the idea for change screen resolution Windows 10 using Settings app and context menu. By changing the screen resolution, you are changing the csreen size, app icon size and text size too. If you are reducing the screen resolution, you will get lower quality display, which will improve your computer performance.

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Misleanenous Windows 10 Display Settings Tutorials

How to Change Screen Brightness in Windows 10

In the system tab, you can see the “brightness and color” heading.  In the “change brightness” section, you have click and hold button using mouse pointer and drag left or right to adjust the brightness.

You can also use the keyboard left and right arrow button after selecting on the button to adjust the bright ness in windows 10.

How to Enable Night Mode in Windows 10

In the system tab, you see the “Night mode” under the “display settings” section. Normally it would be in “Off” condition. Click on it to “Turn on” to enable the Night mode feature in Win10. It would be very helpful will reading PDF or books in your PC.  

You can go to “Night light settings” to adjust the color temperature, schedule night mode for turning on automatically and immediate activation of Night light mode.

This is all you have to know in the Windows 10 display settings. If you have any doubts feel free to ask and also need help in new Windows 10 tutorials. You can contact through the contact box or comment box.

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Windows 10 System Settings User Interface Explained

Welcome to Windows 10 tutorials for beginners and in this post you are going to see about Windows 10 system settings. It is sub tab of Windows 10 settings app which contains system related settings like display, sound, storage, power, notification control, battery, tablet mode, remote desktop and multitasking. In this windows 10 Tutorial post you are going to see each of the system tab options in Windows 10 settings app.

Let us get familiar each System tab features user interface and their functions in your computer.

What is Windows 10 System Settings?

It is complete ability of your computer system which capable and also gets control over them. Here you can meet several system features like display, battery, storage and other options. It also give your system information (about system) in your Windows 10 PC. Mainly system settings are used to control over the main system features. Here, you can see each system tab features in detail.

Display System Settings

Display is one of the main part of computer. It helps to display actions and see the things that you are doing in the PC. So, It should pleasing to eye for effective working and productivity to the users. The display system settings helps you to make adjust brightness of display, Resolution of your screen, Scaling of text, detection of multiple displays, Graphics settings and advanced display settings. It also contains Night mode option, which controls the brightness and color of screen in the night.

You can schedule the time for enabling the night mode. It would be more helpful for using Windows 10 tablet or pc as book reading.

Sound System Settings

Sound system tab is helps to get control over the system sounds, select output and input sound devices, adjust sound level (both output and input), app volume control individually, direct access to sound device properties and Trouble shoot options.

Notifications & Actions System Tab

It controls the notifications of several apps and notification bar area. You can arrange or edit the quick actions buttons in the notification bar using this system tab. It helps to control the notifications on lock screen, Notifications from apps and senders and Reminders about VoIP calls on the lock screen.

Power & Sleep System Settings

Power and sleep are the one of the important system settings which helps to manage the power of your battery. You can setup the screen turn off and sleep time of your pc in battery on and plugged in conditions (charging). If you forgot to do turn off pc, these settings will automatically do the rest in an inactive computer.

Battery System Windows Settings

Battery charge control is need of Windows 10 laptop pc or Tablet. Like in your smartphone, there is cool feature “battery saver” which can setup it here. It also indicate the battery life of your computer. There is another feature which helps to analyze the consumption of battery in your system. From that, you will get to know which windows apps consume more power than others.

Storage System Windows Settings

It shows the local storage drives and also give information of types of files stored in these drives. The storage sense feature helps to free up the space by deleting the temporary files and cleaning up the recycle bin. It also helps to manage storage space and change where new content is used.

Tablet Mode Settings

To select tablet or desktop mode, you can setup here in Tablet mode system Windows settings. You can also hide apps icons or hide taskbar in tablet model. Here, you can turn on or off it according to mode you selected.

MultiTasking System Settings

Here, you can see the setting of Virtual desktops and also snap settings.

Remote Desktop Settings

Remote desktop system feature enables to connect PC remotely through remote desktop client app. You can access your Windows 10 PC directly from other device. Here, I am using the windows 10 home edition, so it doesn’t support for me. You need to Upgrade Windows 10 edition from home to Professional.

This is all about the Windows 10 System settings app user interface. It explains each of the sub tabs in system settings. You will see very detailed Windows 10 tutorial for each tab sections.

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How to Set Windows 10 Default Programs

Welcome to Windows 10 Tutorials for beginners and in this how to tutorial, you are going to learn how to set Windows 10 default programs in your Win 10 PC. For opening each file types, you should require help of software program or app (modern tech called short form for applications). When opening a file type (say, Mp3 format), it will ask you to play it in Windows media player or Groove music app in Windows 10. This is happening due to lack of default programs settings in your Windows 10 Operating system.

Here, you are going to learn to set default apps in Windows 10 in four methods. It is very easy to set default apps on Windows.

They are:-

• Choose Default Programs by Apps
• Choose Default Programs by File type
• Choose Default programs by File Protocol

Watch and Learn to Set Windows 10 Default Apps here:-

Common Steps for Set Windows 10 Default Apps

First, Go to “Start” button and select “Windows 10 Settings” from it.

Then, you will see the Settings user interface and click on “Apps” on it.

Now, you can see Apps dialogue box and select “default apps” from the side bar which is shown below.

You can see the default apps which is set by Windows 10 operating system itself. Common Windows 10 default programs section are Email, Video Player, Music Player, Maps, Photo viewer and web browser.

How to Set Windows 10 Default Programs by Apps | Method 1

For changing the default apps, click on the app displayed.

Here, you are going see an example for setting Microsoft edge browser as default web browser.

Currently my default web browser program is Google chrome which is shown in the image below.

Click on the Google Chrome app. Then you can see a pop-up window and select listed web browser from it.

Select “Microsoft Edge” as default web browser app and its done. You could also change other default apps in the same way.

Note:-

You can also look for new browsers by clicking on the “Look for an app in the store”. You need internet connection for download new windows 10 apps from the Windows store.

How to Set Windows 10 Default Programs by File Type | Method 2

Click on the “Choose Default Apps by File Type” and wait for the page to load with File types.

Here you can associate file types with specific apps. All file types which are contained in your windows 10 system will show here. You can assign each software by clicking on the app.

To associate new file types, just click on the “+” sign for “Choose a Default”.

Click on “Look for an app in Windows store” to search the appropriate windows apps for particular file type. For accessing Windows 10 Store, you need to connect your computer with Wi-Fi or Internet.

You will direct to store and search app here and install suitable app for your selected file type.

This way you can associate windows 10 default apps using the File Type.

How to Set Windows 10 default Programs by Protocol | Method 3

This is 3^rd method to set Windows 10 default apps by protocol of specific apps. For that, click on “choose default apps by protocol” and wait for page to load.

You can see the default associate protocols with specific apps done by Windows 10. For changing default one, you need to click on the app and change with suitable one or find from windows store just like the above methods.

How to Set Windows 10 Default Programs using Windows Context Menu | Method 4

You can also set it from the windows 10 context menu. An example showing below.

Select and MP4 file and right click on it. Then you can see windows 10 context menu.

Select “Open with” and a side drop down menu will appear and click on “choose another app” from it.

A dialogue box will appear and ask for “How do you want to open this file”.

Select the needed app and tick on the “Always use this app to open .mp4 files” and click “Ok” and Default Windows 10 app for videos or any file can be set like this.

How To Reset Windows 10 Default Apps

To reset default apps and click on the “reset” button which shown in the figure below.

All the Default programs will reset to factory state.

Miscellaneous Information’s:-

What is Default Applications?

This is app or program which is set as default and when some use double click and file will open in that program. For example, you set .MP4 video file format open with KM player. When you double clicks on the files with “.MP4” format, it will open only with KMplayer. This is called default applications. For setting, you need to access the windows settings and set default applications as per your requirement.

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Windows 10 Settings User Interface Explained for Beginners

Welcome to windows 10 tutorials to all beginners and intermediate users. This is the 11^th post of windows 10 tutorial, explains about the new windows 10 setting user interfaces. It also include tutorial of how to access setting option and each options applications are also explained in this tutorials post.

Windows 10 Settings

Do you know the ControlPanel of windows 7/8/8.1? Windows 10setting UI is also same as the controlpanel in the previous operating systems of windows, but not full options of controlpanel are involved. It is trusted windows store app which will get to your computer, via windows 10 update installation. Control panel is desktop app which is still their having full power of system security and apps control (uninstall).

Windows 10 setting is really useful in terms of quick accessing of different options in one UI. That means, you access every option inside the setting like browsing on the web. Each options are clearly arranged and abilities of each one are mentioned nicely.

How to Access Windows 10 Settings UI

Using Start Menu

Click on startmenu and select The “Settings” from it, which shown below.

Using My Computer or This PC

You can find the “This PC” icon (which is computer pictured icon); double click on it and it will open the This PC user interface, from that click on the “Open Settings”.

What is inside Settings?

The windows 10 settings app contained several options like System, Devices, Personalization, Accounts, Time and Languages, Internet and Network, Ease of access, privacy, update and security. Here I will only share the what are the uses of these settings options. On later posts, I will explain each one of the options tutorials in the Windows 10 Tutorials for beginners series.

Windows 10 Settings: System

The “System” is the first option in the settings which mainly controls the display settings of your pc, notifications setup, power management, storage, apps and features controls etc. You can also enable the multitasking and tablet modes from the system settings.

Windows 10 Settings: Devices

Devices settings are completely related to the connected devices, Bluetooth and media control settings. Here you can control the connected devices via device manager, also setup the printers and scanners etc. Bluetooth option also access from these UI and pairing jobs are easily done with it.

Windows 10 Settings: Network & Internet

Network and internet option contains all related with internet and network control like Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Data usage, VPN, Dial-UP and proxy. Airplane mode is also activated from this UI.

Windows 10 Settings: Personalization

The personalization settings is a desktop customization option, in which you can change background wallpapers, colors, Windows 10 themes, lock screen pictures etc.

Windows 10 Settings: Accounts

For all the windows OS, you can make different user account, if your computer is shared with others also. Accounts option will help to do that and also helps to change the profile pictures, password, and full control of the other user accounts, if you are the administrator.

Windows 10 Settings: Time & Language

Here you setup the time of your desktop or laptop, language as you need with your PC and speech setup also. Speech setting is always depends on the type of language as you set in the language section.

Windows 10 Settings: Ease of Access

Windows 10 also provide cool settings called “Ease of access”. In this, I like the narrator setting, which reads the text whatever in your onboard. While internet browsing, sometimes I feel little tired of reading. But the narrator option helps me to read the things, only I need to hear it. Other options are also included such as Magnifier, High contrast templates, caption display setup, mouse pointer setup, keyboard keys settings and visual options.

Windows 10 Settings: Privacy

Privacy is one of the main options which allow users to hide their information from others. That means, without user permission, third parties can’t access it. Windows 10 is also having several apps like abdroid phones. Here you can control the apps access of different parts of your PC such as camera, microphone, messaging, photos, music, etc. You can also control the background apps running which are important in terms of internet data consumption and performance of your PC with windows 10 OS.

Windows 10 Settings: Update & Security

According to this OS, update is an important feature, because Microsoft will not going to release new version of windows ( as per announcements) , only provide the latest update via windows 10 update settings. Security feature of windows 10 is Windows defender which defends you system against malicious softwares and virus attack, if you don’t have additional antivirus tools. It also provide backup, recovery and developer options.

These are the main options contain the windows 10 settings app. It is also connected with your specific settings. This app only helps to access these settings with ease and your windows apps are controlled by this app. In the later posts, each one of the options tutorials is explained in very detail.

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