20+ windows... wow I never have that many open at once.
Well yeah with my media player like foobar or potplayer I will use their volume controls but with games or whatever I find it easier to just lower their volume with the mixer, seeing as its right there.
Yeah, there is usually daz, blender, photoshop, several browsers, several media players (MPC-HC), a hand full of text docs for notes and scripts, almost a dozen explorer windows, and then you have all the stuff in the system tray, like spell checkers, task bar tweakers, and so on. lol Always multitasking. Luckily, my system is beefy. But yeah, it's much easier to work in the active window, than finding the one I need in a hurry...
This is one of my favorite games, and one of the few I like having the sounds on for, but sounds before you get get to the options menu, that will always get a down vote from me, no matter what the situation. I don't think asking to wait until we have access to the volume controls before making noise is asking too much, but clearly some people disagree with that...
If that clip happened when you pressed start, or loaded a save or something, then I could see it, but as it is, I am not a big fan, even if it is something simple, like Jikei has for his opening. But then it is not so bad, as long as the default is not too high.
I didn't plan to revisit this topic, so to get back to something more fun, I want to say, kitties like cream...