Volume adjustment logs?

Question

Are volume adjustments stored anywhere on the computer? For example, if I move the volume slider from 100% to 80%, will this be logged somewhere?

Answer 1

No logged as such (e.g. I wouldn't expect to see an entry in the event log) but certainly retained. I would expect this to be updated in the registry somewhere.

UPDATE: I did a search. The best I found so far is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\Volume

But that isn't quite what you want as that is the media player playback volume not the system volume.

Also found:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MPC-HC\MPC-HC\Settings\Volume

which is certainly set to the same as my system volume. But didn't change when I changed the master volume.

Note that each app that handles sound seems to retain its own volume setting too.

Answer 2

Even if Windows HAD a registry value of the volume, I doubt that it would store previous logs of volume settings. The Window's event viewer doesn't store them either. The only way to achieve this would be via something like making an AUTOHOTKEY script. If this is a relevant solution for you, I'll research the script to build.

Also, if you use a program like NirSoft, it will save the volume into a file which you can then make a script to extract that data into your own logging file of your choice.