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Automatic Sound Setup Good article on the windows sound system from PC magazine.  Male brains respond to a higher volume Female brains respond to a lower volume     Setting up your Windows 98 or XP computer is easy with the included sound utility.  Press the Button to set up your sound (98, XP, & 2000 only) If you need to setup a Windows Vista System, Click HERE. Automatically Set Shakti volume for: (more information about types of sound devices)   (These links will open a small file that will write volume settings to a Shakti folder on your computer)       Women using Laptops   Men using Laptops   Women Using Onboard sound devices   Men using Onboard sound devices   Women using normal PCI sound cards   Men using normal PCI sound cards   Women using brand name USB sound devices     Men using brand name USB sound devices   Women using USB sound devices with external power   Men using USB sound devices with external power   Women using small USB sound devices   Men using small USB sound devices    Press the Button to set up your sound (98, XP, & 2000 only) Here's what it does: 1) Makes sure your sound isn't muted     Did you get an error message?   This can appear when you remove a USB sound device from your system. Other sound cards may not re-establish themselves as the default sound device correctly, resulting in this message. You can still use Shakti in spite of this error, but you should re-install the drivers for your sound card. Switch to 'headphones" failed? If you are running Windows Vista, ignore it. If you are running XP, click HERE to do any of these jobs manually       2) Mutes your microphone (this doesn't mean it's disabled. It means that your microphone input isn't being added to the signals).           3) "Zeros" your treble and bass. Don't worry if your device has no treble and Bass. Treble and bass are handled by the Shakti player, and it's settings are loaded each time the player is used.           4) Sets Your multimedia Control Panel. This adjustment makes sure that your control panel's sound is set to give you a clean separation of left and right channels.           5) Turns off windows special effects (like 3D, surround sound or "digital out"). These mix the sound between the two stereo channels.             Note: If you are using an additional software to manage your sound, you should turn it off. These are usually multimedia players or equalizers by the sound card manufacturers or sound player that 'take over' your system.               ABOUT THE SHAKTI PLAYER