Audio Sliders is a replacement for Windows Volume Control applet. Its nice skinnable interface is about five times smaller than original. And you can save even more desktop space with sliders auto roll-up feature. There are five customizeable layouts. You can place together playback, record and additional controls, such as bass and treble faders, recording monitor toggle button and so on. Change volume levels and control Winamp playback in background with system-wide shortcuts provided. Save current mixer setting and restore them later with shortcuts or at the Windows startup. Bonus feature - system monitoring - let you watch various information such as free space on the drives, CPU usage, memory information, etc.