I use Tones in my CIQ apps. My System Volume is way down at like 18%. But my CIQ apps were extremely loud. Then I saw when I started an app in the simulator, a new sound profile popped up in the Windows Volume Mixer, at 100%. The good news is it remembers my new volume setting, and it is not device dependent - the new volume setting is sticky over instances and devices. Yay. Happy Wife, Happy Life :-)