OK if you use a mouse with a wheel but the volume buttons on the notebook did not work with it. Just installed the SW from Microsoft regarding the volume indicator.
It works great. Thanks for the tip Mitch. The intellitype pro 5. TechRepublic has a volume indicator that works well — supports hotkeys as well — membership to site is free. This will probably work only if your OSD volume indicator was working before and disappeared at some point. Thanks so much to Mazzy who suggested it!!! Forums are great! I searched the web, found this site, and YES. The MS Intellitype Pro 6. Just picked the generic multimedia keyboard and no problems with my current multimedia functions.
Cheers guys! You can install the files anywhere, then just put a shortcut to the. The whole thing is less than 75Kb and the ONLY thing it does is display the volume in a green bar-graph at the bottom of the screen and also displays the word MUTE when the sound is muted.
I was disabling services and startup programss and accedently disabled ehtray. Is there some magic way of resetting it? I have tried everything they suggested,from one of those sweat shops in India, they may have told me, but who can understand?
Thanks, Larry. I still have NO answer to my problem! How do I re-code something, to get the on-screen volume cont. Help me, and the Joe will come. The version I got was the 6. This is not big deal, I mean , if you have the controls in windows, why I need do I need a bar to see the volume??????? The indicator bars were an add on feature from the Multi-Function Keyboard. At any rate, when I was forced to change the operating system to Windows XP, I lost the on screen indicators.
This will reinstall the volume indicator bars that change with the volume control knob on the keyboard. The bars will now be a gray color instead of green. No big deal to me. The volume indicators ARE part of windows.
I have the same missing volume level indicator bars on my IBM T42…. Looks slick too. I was having problems with my volume indicator display having disappeared after 3 years. During a google search I ran across this site and I did the suggestion of searching for ehtray. Thanks for all your help! Method 2. Press and hold the "Shift" key while inserting the installation disc to prevent it from starting up automatically.
Type "cmd" into the "Open" box, then click "OK. Type the letter of the drive you inserted the installation disc into, followed by a colon. For example, if you inserted the disc into your "E" drive, type "E:".
Type "expand sndvol Type "exit," then press "Enter. The volume control program will now display in the notification tray of your Windows XP desktop. Press the volume up button on your keyboard or just click the speaker icon in the bottom right of your screen.
Yes No. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 2. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. If you follow the steps outlined in method one for displaying the volume control program and receive the error message of "Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar because the Volume Control program has not been installed. Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. If your computer does not have sound, there may be a problem with your computer's sound card. Verify that your computer is reading the sound card correctly by making sure it shows up under "Sound, video and game controllers," which is located under "Device Manager" on the tab labeled "Hardware" in "Control Panel.
If your computer's sound card displays within "Sound, video and game controllers," and there is still no audio, try updating your computer's sound card drivers. Sound card drivers can by updated through Windows Update, your computer's software disc, or through your computer manufacturer's website.
Submit a Tip All tip submissions are carefully reviewed before being published. You Might Also Like How to. It does have a few other functions to display on screen such as brightness, eject and keyboard although they are currently in development and not complete.
Currently there are 5 volume indicator skins available which can be selected from the drop down in General Settings. The 3RVX source code on Github does actually contain another 10 or so skins. You can download the source Zip file, extract and copy the skin folders into Skins in the 3RVX directory. The 3RVX settings do allow you to have sounds effects for the volume control and to set the position and speed of the indicator. While in the background the program uses around MB of memory depending on the skin used.
Download 3RVX. Volume Indicator Popup is without doubt the simplest and easiest tool to use here. It has no configuration settings or options windows at all and simply runs in the background on launch. There is only a single translucent style volume indicator but it should be large and clear enough to be satisfactory.
Volume Indicator Popup is portable so just extract the Zip file and run the program. The indicator will appear in the center of the screen when you alter the system volume. One unfortunate drawback of Volume Indicator Popup is its memory usage fluctuates between 13MB and 70MB every time you alter your volume.
Note you can only exit the program from Task Manager because it lacks a tray icon or options window. Download Volume Indicator Popup.
For example, you can control volume with the wheel when a button or hotkey is pressed, when the mouse cursor is over the taskbar or a specific window, or even when a media player is in focus. There are two different on screen display types available, both are pictured above.
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