You’ve been there before. You boot up a game for the first time, click through the various engine and publisher screens, and arrive on the main menu. And just like that, your ears get blasted with music and you have to quickly minimize the game in a flash-bang fog to adjust your system volume down. Well, I have good news as I’ve discovered an app that makes adjusting your volume much easier.
Recommended Videos Surprisingly useful You might not see the need for an app like JustScroll, and that’s probably because you have some sort of physical way to control the volume on your PC. Many Corsair keyboards have a volume wheel, for example, while the HyperX Ally Rise has its own volume dial. If you’re using a laptop like the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14, you may even have dedicated media buttons.
You can fuss with that, or you can just scroll. There are two modes for JustScroll. To adjust your volume, you can either put your cursor over the Windows taskbar and start scrolling, or you can hold the Windows key and scroll regardless of where your cursor is to adjust the volume. The latter mode is what I generally reach for, especially while I’m playing games.
Simple and foolproof I was worried about using the Windows key, but JustScroll handles it flawlessly. Being a modifier key, Windows 11 only registers the input when you release the Windows key. JustScroll takes advantage of that and sets up a dummy hotkey of Windows key + Insert when you start scrolling your mouse wheel. That means you’ll never minimize a game or pull up the Start menu when using the Windows key for volume adjustment.