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Disable 'High Volume can cause Hearing Loss'?

Anonymous
2013-11-08T15:11:04+00:00

Can anyone tell me how to disable this warning?

I get it every time I hit 42 on my volume slider, and it is quite annoying!

I think I realize that if I listen to loud music that there is a possibility of it causing hearing loss.

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Anonymous
2013-11-25T04:45:11+00:00

I figured out a solution, and it restored the virtual equalizer that stopped working after the update too.  All I did was roll back the audio driver for my realtek audio sound card.  Here's a pic of the old driver's stats.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-11-11T06:03:15+00:00

    Ok, seriously that is your response? This is an Operating system configuration issue that is across the board no matter what sound card, make/model, application, or software being used. Its the annoying Windows pop-up has nothing to do with anything else. How do you turn the annoying stuff off?

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-11-25T09:04:18+00:00

    Dear all,

    I think I've found the definitive solution to this annoying issue.

    The volume limit warning is set by the driver, and it is a simple value stored on the Windows registry that can be easily modified.

    The value to search in the registry is "GenerateVolLimitUI". It is a DWORD that currently is equal to 1 (1 means limit the volume and display the annoying message).

    Change it to 0 and restart (please note that this registry value will only be read after restarting).

    That's it!

    I found the "GenerateVolLimitUI" value under [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class{4d36e96c-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0001\AudioVolBoost], but your ClassID may be different depending on the sound card you have installed.

    Hope it helps!

    Cheers.

    Toni.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-11-19T16:48:59+00:00

    The exact message, which banners across the entire screen (thereby stopping some of my automated operations) is:

    High volume can cause hearing loss

    Your ears are important.  Turning up the volume past this point can cause permanent hearing damage.

    [Allow]  [Don't Allow]

    From what I've been able to find, this is actually a SAMSUNG thing, not a Microsoft thing.

    One article said that if you rename:

    C:\Program Files (x86)\Samsung\Settings\CmdServer\EasySettingsCmdServer.exe

    to something else, it resolves the issue.  But my experience was that when I renamed that file, it completely broke my sound system, so I wouldn't advise it.

    But it does seem to indicate that its Samsung's problem, and any fixes will have to come from them.

    Hope that helps!

    • Dayton - Tue. 11/19/2013 @ 10:41:14

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-11-13T13:22:44+00:00

    i have the same problem,   very annoying, there are no options to disable this in Realtek hd audio manager..   How can it be disabled?

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