Question Upgraded my wife's laptop to Windows 11, but...

[WilliamM2]

I updated my wife's laptop to 11 yesterday. She's okay with it, but really hates that all settings are combined on the volume, battery, network icons. She keeps sliding the wrong slider when turning the volume down, which dims the screen to black! She thought her screen died.



I can't find any way to fix this. Will startallback fix it? She also hates having no "quick launch".
I know startallback adds that ability back. Installed it for a friend when I upgraded his laptop. I never clicked on the volume button on his, no need, so never noticed this. or whether it corrected the volume settings.

And I'll be doing mine soon. Anyone know, or have installed startallback who can check the volume controls?

 

[mikeymikec]

There was a registry tweak that un-unified that area of settings (I think back to Win10's style), it was a couple of years ago that I last tried it though so I don't know about 24H2/25H2 compatibility. I remember not being a fan of the tweak because IIRC it stuck a settings cog in my system tray which did... stuff?

I never trust third party tweak programs so I've never tried the one you mention, I always stick to UI-available settings or registry tweaks I know to affect changes.

 

[WilliamM2]

There was a registry tweak that un-unified that area of settings (I think back to Win10's style), it was a couple of years ago that I last tried it though so I don't know about 24H2/25H2 compatibility. I remember not being a fan of the tweak because IIRC it stuck a settings cog in my system tray which did... stuff?

I never trust third party tweak programs so I've never tried the one you mention, I always stick to UI-available settings or registry tweaks I know to affect changes.

Thanks for the reply. I did find a combination of settings in startallback that fixed this issue. And I have her quick launch back. Something Microsoft NEVER should have removed. This is the only program that brings that back in 11. I have a little more tweaking to do, but she loves it so far.

The only third party program I used in the past was Classic Shell. I hate the start menu and commercials in win 10 and 11. Never had any issue with it.

Startallback also has all that functionality, so no need for Classic Shell. It does cost $5 a license, or 2 for $9. No big deal, wish it were free like all the Win 10 tweaks.

New tweaked volume control:

 

[WilliamM2]

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I've done a lot of these upgrades. Never an issue. Well I just did mine, and now I get this on every boot (pic from the web):



Device manager shows no missing drivers. Ever run into this. That dll is programs I've never used...

 

[mikeymikec]

I've done a lot of these upgrades. Never an issue. Well I just did mine, and now I get this on every boot (pic from the web):

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Device manager shows no missing drivers. Ever run into this. That dll is programs I've never used...

I think I've encountered something like it before but I recognised the driver (something to do with the Asus board in question IIRC), so I just ignored it. If I didn't recognise the driver I'd dig into system32\drivers, find the file, properties, details, get some information there, google for it, and find out exactly what it does.

 

[WilliamM2]

I think I've encountered something like it before but I recognised the driver (something to do with the Asus board in question IIRC), so I just ignored it. If I didn't recognise the driver I'd dig into system32\drivers, find the file, properties, details, get some information there, google for it, and find out exactly what it does.

Yeah, I hate errors though, a bit of OCD. So I searched the net, there is a way to remove the dll. Windows 11 would NOT let me do it, kept saying is was in use.
So I used my image to go back to Win10, which DID allow me to remove it. Reinstalled Win 11 upgrade, and no error. I figured if it was needed by windows, the upgrade would reinstall it. It didn't. Waste of 45 minutes.

The dll has something to do with ATI video cards according to properties. I have not had an ATI card since WinXP in like 2009, 3-4 computers ago.

 

[mikeymikec]

Yeah, I hate errors though, a bit of OCD. So I searched the net, there is a way to remove the dll. Windows 11 would NOT let me do it, kept saying is was in use.
So I used my image to go back to Win10, which DID allow me to remove it. Reinstalled Win 11 upgrade, and no error. I figured if it was needed by windows, the upgrade would reinstall it. It didn't. Waste of 45 minutes.

The dll has something to do with ATI video cards according to properties. I have not had an ATI card since WinXP in like 2009, 3-4 computers ago.

I would have thought that finding its service in currentcontrolset services, set startup type to 3, reboot, then renaming the file should do it.