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    Volume meter program reinstall

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Tiq, Dec 18, 2008.

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    I was cleaning some spyware off the Windows XP registry of a Sony VGN-FE, and accidentally deleted the key that starts the volume indicator program. The buttons still work fine, I just don't get the green meter anymore. I tried reinstalling some of the original software from the Sony site, but it didn't help.

    The deleted keys were either in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, I don't remember which.

    Could someone export those two Run folders of their registry and paste it here please? You can get it with Start/Run/regedit, or copy from a HijackThis report or something. It can probably be from just about any Sony laptop. I've tried to Google for an answer to this but most are like "reinstall Windows" and that's just daft.
     
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    I thought about System Restore, and indeed, c:\System Volume Information\_restoreetc had lots of registry backups. So I loaded one of the old software branch hives under a temporary registry branch with regedit, and found the original keys I had deleted. YESS!!

    The volume meter in this particular Vaio model is managed by c:\windows\ehome\ehtray.exe. Maybe it's different between models after all, I don't know, but my problem is solved. Yay!
     
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