What happened to the Visual showing how loud the sound is?

[Grubish360]

On my laptop, the only way to turn up or down the sound (besides using the volume controls in Windows) is to use the F8, and F9 keys. When I would use F9 to turn up the volume, a visual in the middle of the screen would show up, showing how loud my sound is, kind of like on a TV. Now it's not there, and it's really annoying. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[stormy13]

That isn't a sound driver or Windows problem. What it is is a missing keyboard/input/multimedia driver/program, either missing completely or the options for it need to be run and that setting enabled.

 

[bobkn]

It's not fundamental to Windows. It was a utility provided by Dell.

Drivers and Downloads

(If the link doesn't make it, it's the Quickset application package available for your model at support.dell.com. It's available for Win7 X64.)

 

[Grubish360]

Thanks bobkn for the download. Everything is working again.