It’s an easy-to-use and helpful feature within Windows 10, but it appears to be on the way out.Īs spotted by users of the latest build (18272) available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring, Microsoft has updated the Volume Mixer. With the Volume Mixer, users can, for example, turn down the volume of any open browsers while making apps such as Spotify louder. But it seems that this legacy option might be removed in future versions of Windows 10. In brief: Most Windows users know that the quickest and easiest way to alter the volume of individual programs and apps is to open the volume mixer, which is accessed by clicking the taskbar’s speaker icon.