I just got done reformatting my Dell laptop (with the actual operating system CD and not their bloated restore functionality) and realized there was no on-screen volume or brightness display. I was quite disappointed because I like knowing how high I have my volume turned up without having to click on the system tray icon. So I was on a quest to find the software that I needed.
After much searching I came across some software that Dell provides called QuickSet. Here are the features that Dell QuickSet has:
- Power management schemes
- Battery resource information
- Desktop font scaling
- On-screen volume status
- On-screen display brightness
- Radio/Wireless activity
- Presentation mode
- Display switch
- Hotkey hibernate
- MediaDirect
- Internal network card activity (depending on your system) - The Internal Network Card will be deactivated when user goes to battery mode and the network cable is unplugged. In order to activate it, reinsert AC power source.
- The application also warns user when unsupported power-adapter/dock/battery scenarios are detected.
The screenshot above is what the on-screen volume bar looks like. This was exactly what I was looking forand from what I was reading around the Web anyone can use it. If you don't own a Dell then you may not be able to benefit from a few of the features but many of them, like the on-screen displays, should work for you. I haven't been able to confirm this yet so if someone is able to test it out on a non-Dell computer then let us know if it works.
Sorry, guess it is for Dell only computers.
Volumouse v1.31 – Control the sound volume with a wheel mouse
Volumouse provides you a quick and easy way to control the sound volume on your system – simply by rolling the wheel of your wheel mouse.
It allows you to define a set of rules for determining when the wheel will be used for changing the sound volume. For example: You can configure Volumouse to use your mouse wheel for volume control when the Alt key is hold down, when the left mouse button is down, when the mouse cursor is over the taskbar, and so on…
When the conditions that you define are not satisfied, your mouse wheel will be used for the regular scrolling tasks, exactly as before get it here [nirsoft.net]
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Well, I already have buttons on my laptop specifically designated for volume so all I wanted was an on-screen display for the volume. I think my touchpad mouse on my laptop would be too touchy to try and adjust the volume by scrolling.
It does sound good for my desktop computer though. Thanks!
-Ryan
Crap, I’m using a non-Dell PC and the setup refuses to continue because of that…
If somebody knows a way to make it work anyway, please let me know.
quickset-nondell.5.pdedecker@spamgourmet.com
Thanks!
nope, can’t work on non-dell
Thanks for letting me know! I have adjusted the post accordingly.
-Ryan
YAY!
Thank you!!! Having my volume bar missing has been an annoying niggle for months!
Thank you very much. I had the exact same scenario on a Latitiude D810 and this worked perfectly!!
I downloaded quickset and it still does not work…what else do I have to do
Thanks. My partner will stop moaning at me now! I rebuilt her Dell D830 but couldn’t restore on screen volume indicator. Quickset works a treat. Thank You
Awesome. I was reluctant to install all the optional programs on Dell’s drivers page because some of them were optional. I wanted the volume display, but did not know which to pick. This worked a treat. By the way, if you type the Dell service tag (on the bottom of the laptop) into the drivers page it gives you a list of all the drivers that you will/might need.
For Dell laptops you have to open a program called quickset, if you don’t have it you can downloaded here
[support.dell.com]