fredk Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I recently went to Vista and am trying to use a macro that I had (under xp) to silence the computer at a certain hour (to not disturb the other half) and then unmute it the next morning. It does not seem to be working. Ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredk Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Just checked an even trying to just use a hotkey and manually trigger the Mute/Unmute does not appear to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecasper Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Very Interesting. I have the same problem. I just built a very simple macro that when I run it, it should mute my system. But it is not working. Here is the macro... get ready: <AUDMUTEON> I'm running Vista 32, sp1. Macro Express version 3.7d (3.7.4.1) Did I miss something, or is this particular function not functioning correctly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredk Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Vista Home Premium (32bit), sp1. I need this working or well, I will have one very unhappy sleeper on my hands!!! I notice on that screen (Audio Control) where you can pick your macro function a number of them are NOT available on "this" system but audio mute/unmute IS AVAILABLE supposedly. Also the audio toggle does not work. Well, I found a workaround using a third party program, nircmd, which Macro Express can launch and then nircmd has command line parms that turn on/off speakers. It would be nice to have the internal command working since it suggests it should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredk Posted December 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2008 No takers on this one, huh? I would like to know why the internal MacroEX command to mute/unmute does not work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 When Vista originally was released, this command did not work. We made a change to fix this in a subsequent release of Macro Express. It looks like something has changed in Vista again that breaks this. We'll take a look at this and add a fix in the next release. For now, here is a low tech solution that will toggle the sound on or off. Move Mouse to Tray Icon: "Volume" Mouse Left Button Click Delay 250 Milliseconds Text Type: <ALT>m<ESC> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecasper Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 When Vista originally was released, this command did not work. We made a change to fix this in a subsequent release of Macro Express. It looks like something has changed in Vista again that breaks this. We'll take a look at this and add a fix in the next release. For now, here is a low tech solution that will toggle the sound on or off. Move Mouse to Tray Icon: "Volume" Mouse Left Button Click Delay 250 Milliseconds Text Type: <ALT>m<ESC> Thanks Stan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredk Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Looking forward to the fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spice3d Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Any progress on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypin Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 Any progress on this? Nice one! - do you have it on a 6-month Schedule activation? -- Terry, East Grinstead, UK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traggett Posted August 10, 2009 Report Share Posted August 10, 2009 I have a workaround, which involves using AutoHotKey for a script which "Send"s the mute (or in my case the volume up / down keys) and then using Macro Express Pro (which I still prefer) to call the compiled script produced by AHK. Not ideal, but it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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