stigzler Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 (edited) Hi folks. I'm looking for a way to preserve the normal windows volume controls whilst running BigBox as shell. I have WinPac set two shifted functions to vol-up and vol-down. If I run in windows shell and I press these keys, it turns the windows volume up and down (essentially acting as vol up/down keyboard buttons). However, if I run BigBox as shell, this no longer works. Also, if I plug in a keyboard with vol up/down buttons, these don't work either. Bit if a deal breaker really. Also tried a usb volume knob - works in windows, not with BigBox as shell. I can, of course WinPac to two other spare keys and map these to vol up/down in BigBox, but this only controls bigbox of course, not other emulators. I need to somehow start the relevant windows processes as "also launch" I read somewhere that starting explorer.exe triggers the win volume system, so tried the following batch script: start /min c:\ This does start up explorer, but still no win volume. 😔 Also tried running: C:\Windows\System32\SndVol.exe Still no dice. Have checked services.msc - "Windows Audio" is running. Is this a bit of a major oversight or am I missing something? UPDATES: Here's some of the additional things I've tried and results: Volume still not controlled by usb wheel/keys Edited August 27 by stigzler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 In LaunchBox - Tools < Options < Startup Applications, you set up apps to load when LaunchBox, BigBox or both start. Not sure if this works when starting BB from shell. Maybe you can add an application for WinIPAC.exe and whatever parameter(s) needed to load the config file (that sets the modifiers). 'Shooting from the hip' and 'grasping at straws'. 😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stigzler Posted August 26 Author Share Posted August 26 (edited) Thanks Jo - yeah - already knew about the launch options - that's how I launched C:\Windows\System32\SndVol.exe and exlorer.exe. No dice. Yeah - it's not the winpac as all other buttons are working as mapped without launching the config app - I think the settings are stored in the WinPac itself? Thanks for trying, though. Edited August 26 by stigzler 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stigzler Posted August 27 Author Share Posted August 27 Given others have reported this historically and there's been no resolve, think I'll submit this as a bug and see if that fosters any solutions. I'm imagining now LB is staffed, there'd be someone on bugwatch, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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