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Gidpod

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March 23rd, 2007 12:00

Volume Control Display

I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop PC running Vista. There is some volume buttons on the front of the laptop and when I pressed them up or down it showed up on screen. This has now disappeared, anybody know how to get it back. The volume still works ok it's just the on screen display that doesn't show up. Itseems to work independently of the volume in the system tray.

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Graham

Jim Coates

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March 23rd, 2007 13:00

It might be a problem with Quickset.

Look on the taskbar and see if you have the Quickset icon there. It's in the shape of a blue Q with a yellow tail sticking out of it. Right click the icon and uncheck 'disable onscreen volume meter.'

If the icon is missing look under Start/All Programs and see if you have a program called Dell Quickset. Follow the arrow to the word 'Quickset' and click on it and the 'Q' icon should appear on the taskbar.

If you don't have the Quickset program you can download it from your downloads page under 'Applications'.

Quickset's main function is to start the power management wizard; however, right clicking the icon lets you enable or disable the Fn keys for volume and screen brightness.

Darrel112

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March 23rd, 2007 20:00

Yes, this is a bug in the new QuickSet for Vista. Actually the display still works but it's under other Windows so you can't see it. I downloaded a new version of QuickSet the other day did no good. Dell what are you going to do about this??
 
 
Inspiron 1501, TL-50, 2gig ram

AirChief

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March 24th, 2007 15:00

The first thing I disabled on my notebook was Quickset.  This thing is a huge system resource hog.  Try disabling it and notice the CPU time you get back and your hard drive will not be accessed constantly.

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