Critical Battery alarm needs to be heard, even when muted.

Hello all and thanks for the support.
I have a DV7 w/Vista Home Premium SP2 64-bit that is used for telecommuting. The Citrix app I remotely log into fills the entire screen including the task bar of the local machine with the desktop of the remote machine. I never see the warnings of low/critical battery. I have changed the sound in Windows sound control to a more obnoxius sound (ringout.wav) so I hear it during normal hours.
My problem is that most (just about all) of the time the laptop is muted so that my young child is not waken during nap time or late at night when I can actually work. I need the critical battery alarm to umute the sound and possibly turn it up/down to a reasonable volume to let me know that I need to plug it in. Is there a way to do this? Or even put a message on the screen like the volume control stating to plug in NOW.

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