Vista - Transparent Volume scale

Hey everyone... I have Vista Home Prem with a MS 2000 keyboard that has the
volume control feature on the kb.... Does Vista have a feature like Mac OSX
where if your increase or decrease the volume control from the keyboard, OSX
will bring up a transparent scale of the volume setting, does Vista have the
same feature??... I tried looking through most of the setting and can not
find anything .

thanks all...

Hi Cory,

I believe it has to do with the keyboard drivers or software on whether or not it also pops up the Volume slider from the Volume icon in the Notification area of the taskbar.

If I want to see the Volume slider when I use the keyboard volume buttons, I have to click on the Volume icon first. Otherwise the keyboard volume buttons will adjust the volume with only the reference of the number of waves coming out of the right side of the Volume icon.

To see how to have the Volume icon showing in the notification area of the taskbar, see:

Notification Area - System Icons

Hope this helps,
Shawn

The MS Keyboard has a 'Properties' key, between the right windows key, and
the right ctrl key. If you press the volume key, then the Properties key,
you should get a slider on the volume icon in the Notifications area. Escape
out.
There is a checkbox for showing the Volume icon on Control Panel/
Sounds/Audio tab.

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"Cory Mariani" <cb900f2cnd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is a volume level display that does pop up within Media Center, but
there isn't one available on the basic Windows desktop. If it exists at all
any on-screen display of the volume level would be provided by a custom
keyboard driver. For example, HP includes on-screen volume level display
with its multimedia keyboard drivers. If the MS keyboard came with a driver
disc try installing that and look for settings pertaining to on screen
display.



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