

The quickest way to resolve the issue is to restart the Explorer shell. The volume control icon may fail to respond intermittently for unknown reasons. Using keyboard to control the volume (with an AutoHotKey script) Taskbar Volume Control Icon does not work Fix 1: Restart Explorer via Task Manager.Enable the legacy Volume Control slider.While the taskbar volume control icon is non-responsive, audio may still work on the computer, and you’re able to open sndvol.exe and adjust the volume. The right-click menu has options to open the volume mixer, sound settings, launch the Sounds applet where you can enable/disable playback and recording devices, and alter other properties. When the Taskbar gets stuck, none of the notification area icons respond. The speaker volume control slider and the context menu that appears when you right-click on the speaker icon use the modern UI (a.k.a immersive shell). Moreover, the immersive shell menu responsiveness is usually a bit slow compared to the classic Windows menus. It was not unusual to see the Taskbar or the Start menu become non-responsive, especially in the earliest Windows 10 builds. Right from the early Windows 10 builds, the Start menu and Taskbar (immersive shell) have always been buggy. Would love to rule out a virus/security breach of any kind.This post explains how to fix the volume control (speaker) icon in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Please help! Did I do something to my hotkeys? Is there a driver issue? I'm getting nowhere. I'm not about to pick an app (Chrome, Explorer or Edge are top 3, Look for an app at the Microsoft Store' is 4th option)įn + f4 - no other video output so who knows My options are: Open pick an app? or Cancel. If I follow that link (which I cannot copy and have to type out), the window opens a pop up asking if I want to:Ī website wants to open this application. When I try to increase brightness with fn +f10 I get this:Įrror : HP Software Framework is not installed in the System.įor manual installation please download and install the link. My physical volume up key is turning on the narrator, my volume down key is taking a screenshot! (not cool).įn + f11 will still turn the keyboard backlight on, that's normal.įn + f12 turns on airplane mode, not sure if that's normal.

SOS - For the last couple weeks my "fn" + buttons have gone nutso.
