Vista green volume meter

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James Welch

What happened to the green volume meter that was shown when changing volume.
It is present in XP MCE and was in Vista in earlier builds but it went away.
Even when ehtray.exe is running like in xp or previous builds it does not
show the green volume meter any more. Any idea of another program or way to
get it back? When I put the xp MCE ehtray.exe in the ehome folder on my
Vista partition, then it shows the volume meter but it will show the changes
in volume due to the new way Vista controls volume.

My keyboard is older and does not have software or anything to show an
onscreen volume meter. It worked in XP however. If anyone knows what I am
talking about and can help it would be appreciated. I am not bothered by the
green bar and it does not affect my games in XP. I wish I had a picture of
it but most with XP MCE should know what I am talking about.
 
This is a function of the keyboard software. I am waiting for Vista
compatible software for my keyboard also.

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Richard Urban
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
If your keyboard volume buttons work by simulating pressing F8, F9, F10 for
Volume Down, Volume Up, Mute, respectively, it will not work with WMP 11,
including Vista. For some reason, the Windows Media Player product group,
displaying an infinite lack of wisdom, chose to change the keys for WMP 11
to F7, F8, and F9, respectively. That means that any hardware or software
that simulates the function keys for volume and mute will no longer work
until new drivers are available.

Dale
 
It's not the keyboard, it's MCE.
I also thought that was the keyboard, but I formatted my media center pc and
instaled only MCE (no keyboard drivers, no helpers, nothing, just clean MCE)
and that bar appeared.

BTW it bugged me, so i'm glad to not see it in Vista xD
 
No it is purely based on the ehtray.exe. It seems Vista took the volume
meter out of windows. With my shitty keyboard I had the volume meter on XP
MCE, now not on Vista. I know I can get a different one with separate
keyboard and drivers.
 
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