These three buttons are located on the far left of your keyboard. To access the Task Manager, hold down the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys at the same time. In Windows Task Manager, you can see what CPU, memory, disk and network utilization is causing the Microsoft Windows Volume Control process. Since most applications store data on your hard disk and in your system's registry, it is likely that your computer has suffered fragmentation and accumulated invalid entries which can affect your PC's performance. Non-system processes like sndvol32.exe originate from software you installed on your system. 'This program is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.' I have followed instructions provided on MS website but am getting a new error message when I type in d:cd i386 (where d is the CDrom drive which holds the. This is accessible by default from the system tray bar. This utility allows you to change the volume of your audio channels on your computer (e.g. Sndvol32.exe is the executable for the Microsoft Windows Volume Control process, which comes with all 32bit versions of Windows to-date.