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I don't know how relevant this is to you, but its interesting anyway.... but on my DV9774ca I was using the factory setup of Vista and all the HP add-on bloatware from new for a few months, turning HP stuff off and uninstalling HP stuff. I have the touch-pad volume control above the keyboard area, with the incremental smaller to larger blips between the + and the -. It was so flakey to adjust volume for those few months no matter what I tried, seemed hit and miss to get any response out of it, I'd be rubbing that touch-pad like mad and went nuts some days!....so I used the Windows volume control down by the clock.
I ended up doing a nice clean install of Vista this last summer and get rid of everything HP crammed on it! .....and low and behold the volume control touch-pad works wonderfully every time. I believe there was some conflict going on with all the stuff that HP puts on at the factory.
The only problem I have had is when using VLC media player I can't adjust the volume with the touch-pad controller at all when its running, I have to minimize VLC and click on something else to release whatever hold VLC has over the volume control. Thats just one of those things...its ok with everything else.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
