Volume and Brightness controls

So I was installing Lenovo Drivers on my laptop after I nuked the hard drive and to repartition. However, somehow, I have TWO volume and brightness controls. Any ideas anyone?

Hi ychen428,
I saw your other post over here . Is your audio working properly now with the exception of having two volume controls?
Seeing as how the hotkeys are incorporated into Energy Management, could it be that there are two versions of Energy Management installed? The on screen displays look like an older version and a new version.
Dave
T430u, x301, x200T, x61T, x61, x32, x41T, x40, U160, ThinkPad Tablet 1838-22R, Z500 touch, Yoga Tab 2 Windows 8.1, Yoga Tablet 3 Pro
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OK, here's how the volume bar works in all Media Center (2004-2005) and how to change it :
Create a .txt file with the following :
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Media Center\VolumeDisplay]
"Disable"=dword:00000000
"FontSize"=dword:00000024
"Color"=dword:00ffffff
"Timeout"=dword:000003e8
Don't include the --------
Now here are what the settings do:
Disable: (enable or disable the volume bar)
- 00000000 (bar is shown)
- 00000001 (bar is hidden)
FontSize: (decide the font sized used to display the word "volume")
- 00000024 is font size 36 (it's hexadecimal value), for exemple 00000014 is fontsize 20, etc..
Color: (the color of the control bar and of the word "volume")
00ffffff corresponds to white, 00000000 corresponds to black. also hexadecimal.
If you want an easy way to find out, just check the color you want in HTML:
If HTML is #00AAFF for exemple, then you need to put value 00FFAA00, or for HTML #556677, the value will be 00776655
Timeout: (it represent the duration of displaying the volume bar)
000003e8 corrsponds to 1000 ms = 1 seconde. For exemple, 1,5 second is 000005dc, or 2 second is 000007d0
So replace accordingly the above with the value that you like, save as "bar.reg" then double click on it and reboot the PC!
Enjoy, it was quite a hassle to find those keys because they don't exist initially! (and because for each try, I must reboot.. :/ )
Later,
Alcahest
ps: it works on ALL Qosmio machines ;)

Can I disable the yellow volume and brightness bars that pop up when using the function keys?

I upgraded to windows 8 and it has volume and brightness meters that pop up automatically, and they are nicer looking than the big yellow lenovo ones. Plus having 2 bars is redundant. How can I disable the lenovo ones so I can just have the windows 8 ones? I had just the windows 8 ones until the lenovo driver package installed itself automatically.

hi caseyls,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
AFAIK the Indicator for Brightness and volume are Installed via Lenovo Energy Management Software.
Try uninstalling the sOftware from (Control Panel / Uninstall a program)
And it should disable it.
Regards
Solid Cruver
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