How to disable the Windows 7 from decreasing the volume on detecting applications?

Have you noticed this small feature in Windows 7 that decreases the volume of the application when it detects another application that uses the sound?

This is a feature in Windows 7 which automatically decreases the speaker volume when it finds out some kind of communication activity.

You can disable this feature by following the below steps

How to disable the Windows 7 from decreasing the volume on detecting applications?

1. Navigate to Start -> Control Panel -> Sound

2. In the Sound Dialog window, Navigate to the Communications Tab and select the radio button “Do nothing”… Note that by default, it is reduce the volume of other sounds by 80 % and click OK.

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