Increasing the sound volume in Windows Vista

In Vista, each application has its own volume as well as the master volume. Right click on the sound icon in the task bar when the application that you'd like to increase the volume of is running. Then click Volume Mixer. If the application volume isn't at max, try turning that up as well.

"Another thing that I figured out while trying to raise volume levels for my windows vista is that my balance settings where modified to only provide 27% volume, even though the master was set to 100%. To check this:

right click sound icon
select playback devices
select desired playback device
select properties
select levels tab
select balance

all the settings should be at 100 for maximum volume

English is not my native language, and so my windows OS is not in english. Hence some of my directions might not be named appropriately, keep that in mind :)"