Fix Windows bug that causes volume balance to be lost

(I decided to put this in Ideas rather than Bugs, as it's a Windows bug, rather than the program's bug. I apologize if I made the wrong call)

There is a Windows bug carried over from previous versions (I can confirm it exists in both Windows 7 and 10) that causes the volume balance to be reset if the system volume is set to 0.

If you need me to be elaborate. I need to set a different volume for each of my speakers (10 for left speaker, 17 for right speaker) withing the OS' Sound config window, otherwise one sounds louder than the other. Windows is designed so that this balance is kept when you change the system volume. For example, when my system volume is set at 17, the individual speaker volumes are 10 and 17 respectively. When system volume is 30, it's 18-30. When it's 48, it's 29-48, and so on.

Unfortunately, this balance is lost if the system volume is set to 0. After than, the speaker volumes will be 17-17, 30-30 48-48, and so on, forcing me to reconfigure the balance all over again.

Would it be possible for 7+ Taskbar Tweaker to fix this bug?

If not, could you give us a setting to prevent the system volume from being set lower than 1? That would work as a workaround to prevent the balance from ever being reset, and I could still mute the audio with the mute feature.

If that's too much trouble too, could you at least give use a setting to prevent the volume from being set lower than 1 with the mouse's scroll wheel when using the "Control volume when mouse is over" feature?