Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

One of our favorite Windows 11 features, which Microsoft delivered a year after the initial release, is the new volume/brightness sliders. Gone are the old and hideous Windows 8-like sliders that ...

Nowadays, you will generally find that the sound quality of the new model PCs and laptops is not as good as you used to see in the earlier models. So to get the same feel as the earlier PC or laptop ...

Most of us will have all kinds of audio pumping out through our Windows PC speakers (or headphones)—but you don't necessarily want your background lo-fi chill-out mixes at the same volume level as the ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has made some steady improvements to audio control in Windows over the ...

You can increase the mic volume on Windows 10 when others are having difficulty hearing you through your computer. To increase your microphone volume, navigate to the Sounds icon in the bottom bar of ...

This week's Dev channel build demonstrates a new and improved volume mixer for Windows and its apps directly from the Quick Settings menu at the bottom-right of the taskbar. The new mixer allows you ...

Want to Reset your Sound & Audio Settings? This post will show you how to reset app volume and device preferences i.e. output and input preferences in Windows 11/10. Windows allows you to control ...

Windows 11 has been a mixed bag in terms of people liking and disliking it, I myself personally quite like it ignoring all the little quirks and poor UX changes, but one change that has annoyed me ...

Microsoft released a batch of significant updates to Windows 11 earlier this week, adding tabs to the Notepad app, integrating the AI-powered “new Bing” into the taskbar’s search box, and previewing ...