Please Help!

Is there a way I can access a deeper volume settings on the computer? I get the factory settings kept the volume hard capped at a very low rate. I have a Toshiba Satellite L505 if that helps. (Win 7) It's quite an annoying experience to only be able to hear by having to make sure there's no background noise.

I'm not sure about the hard capping, but laptop speakers are generally pretty quiet, seeing as they are dirt cheap. I would advise hooking it up to some externals or otherwise using headphones. 

i'm sure even if there is a way you wont actually want to go above the cap because it will get very distorted, very quickly. I would advise the same as Fripplebubby, go get some speakers, even relatively cheap ones will do, or buy some cans.

My older laptop had great speakers tho. To the point that I while I waiting for the first Tested livestream to get up and running, someone came over thought I had someone in my bedroom(which is two floors above). These speakers I can barely be more than 3 feet apart before I have to strain. I know they could go louder because using VLC I raise the volume to 400% and it sounds great without any loss of quality. It's annoying inconvenience to have to download every possible I'm watching just to go the VLC route. I would also like something software based, mainly cause carrying around speakers isn't really portable.

It seems like the only option that I know of is to normalize the volume on player controls (such as MPCHC), though I'm not assuming that the "VLC route" is basically the same. I've never heard of software that can make higher the volume of a laptop output as a whole.