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Quick Sheller and XP Sound Problem
rawbe:
Hello-
I finally finished my cab and to put the last touch of hiding my XP's OS I installed Quick Sheller. It works like I was hoping but with one problem. I can not access the PC's volume. I am booting into Mala and using a Mini Pac. I have the volume programmed to keys using the Mini Pac shift feature. This use to work but now does not. I found a work around using Mala's volume but I can not use this feature when a game starts.
I would like to have my PC recognize the volume up and down commands. Also, I tried putting the volume icon in startup but that didn't work.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Robbie
lilshawn:
i think your problem is the volume control is attached to the windows program manager itself. by switching the shell to load the front end instead, you never load the volume portion itself.
you may have to do a system restore and just manually hide the boot screens and drop your front end in the startup folder. it's not a clean, but it should make the volume control work properly.
rawbe:
lilshawn- I am afraid that is the only solution but I was hoping for another option. I like quick sheller and would like to keep my current setup.
Typefighter01:
Could you install a small volume utility like this http://www.arcadecab.com/Projects/VolumeTray.htm ?
I installed it on a bartop cab I built, and it worked perfect. I could adjust the volume inside the FE and inside MAME (during game) and it never stole focus.
EDIT:Rereading lilshawn's post, looks like my idea won't work, but VolumeTray worked so well, I thought I would post anyway (maybe dumping it in the start-up folder will force program manager to open it?).
ant2:
I had similar issues where the troubleshooter app etc would not work without the windows shell being loaded.
What you could do is spawn the "explorer" shell after booting mala, i.e 30 seconds after windows booting.
I load mine manually with a script that I call directly from within gameex, I also have another one for loading and hiding the mouse pointer
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