Missing Volume bar in Vista

Can anyone tell me why I no longer see a volume bar on screen when I turn my volume up or down on my VISTA RTM DV6000t. On my other XP laptop I had a green bar volume display then after some driver upgrade I had another smaller one pop up but now I have nothing so its hit and miss to know how much I have to press to get max volume.

 

Just so you know, I never have had any on screen display in VISTA. I figured it did not have the feature. Did you ever see a bar in Vista or did this occur after an upgrade?

 

Thats because the Vista driver is a different audio driver. It doesn't have the green bars. If you want you can try to install the XP driver in Vista which will give you the green bars but I wouldn't recommend it because you may have compatability issues arise from it.

 

so no volume indicator in vista huh. Joy!

 

Hover your mouse pointer over the time in the taskbar for a numerical value.

 

This should be in the Windows section.
Anyways. I noticed the same thing. Haven't seen a way to change it. I liked the volume bar that came up when i pressed the vol +/-, mute buttons on my keyboard. Although I thought the volume it showed me was from the Microsoft Intellitype software that came with my keyboard. Perhaps it's a problem that should be fixed by whoever made your keyboard. Or in the case of a laptop, whoever made your system.

 

I don't recommend you use the xp drivers I tried it and it locked up my computer a few times

 

In media center, there is a reg key

However, it looks like default is set to "on" in vista on my notebook.


Tweak the MCE "volume bar"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\VolumeDisplay]

"Disable"=dword:00000000
"FontSize"=dword:00000024
"Color"=dword:00ffffff
"Timeout"=dword:000003e8

Disable: (enable or disable the volume bar)
- 00000000 (bar is shown)
- 00000001 (bar is hidden)

http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/thread/101897.aspx

Would this work?

On Screen Display Application for Notebook Function Keys

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...softwareitem=ob-19612-1&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

 

Although there's no on screen green display as in XP, the Vista sound icon in the systray is actually a dynamic display. With sound at max, there will be three soundwaves coming out of it, going down to zero for no sound.

 

Click on the speaker icon on your task bar to see your volume level in VISTA.

 

If you like to hide your taskbar, this will show on screen.

Download the intellitype software for windows vista.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...71-8973-4F20-8C16-252DFB7D8F9E&displaylang=en

Pick "Natural Keyboard" as your keyboard when you install.

You can pull up the software details by searching "microsoft keyboard" in the menu. You should have standard 101/102 keyboard displayed in hardware.

This works on a dv6233se HP Vista notebook, it may work for other notebooks and vista upgrades as well.

 

Has anyone figured out how to restore the green popup volume display that the hp notebooks with xp came with after the vista install? I understand things are different after vista, and the other comments in this thread are noted, but I wish it would display in detail better...

people did the ehtray thing in this thread, http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=53727&page=5 but it seems that this doesn't work for vista. The volume display pops up but does not show any progress or changes.

thanks for any new thoughts.