Shortcut key to mute and un-mute the volume in Windows (Free, of course)

Create your own keyboard hotkey (or shortcut) to mute/ un-mute the volume in Windows. At one time I had a mute/un-mute button on my keyboard. Well somewhere along the way I replaced my keyboard and discovered that I no longer had a mute volume button on the new keyboard. In the previous post I described an easy way to mute and un-mute the volume using a vbscript. In that post you had to click on the mute.vbs file to mute windows. Not very fast way of muting the volume. First you have to find the mute.vbs file and then click on the icon. A better solution is to use the mute.vbs file and create a shortcut key.

Create a shortcut key to mute the volume in Windows (step-by-step)... (if you'd prefer to just have a shortcut key created for you, check out the end of this post) First copy the next two lines...

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oShell.SendKeys chr(173) 'mute / un-mute the sound

and paste them in notepad.exe. Next save the file as mute.vbs to the desktop. After saving the file you can double click on mute.vbs. Everytime you double click on the file it will toggle Windows volume between mute and un-mute. Next create the shortcut and shortcut key so that we can mute/ un-mute the sound using just the keyboard... A new file 'Shortcut to mute.vbs' was create on the desktop. Right click on the new shortcut 'Shortcut to mute.vbs' and choose properties. Then click on the shortcut tab and click in the 'shortcut key' textbox and press the 'm'. Click OK to save. Now whenever you press the CTLR + ALT + M keys you can easily toggle between mute/ un-mute. Create a shortcut key to mute the volume in Windows (the easy way)... If you don't really care to learn how to do this you can always just download the this file and it will create the mute.vbs and shortcut key for you... just click here! Enjoy :)