Sam_Brown Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 Hey All, Should be a nice easy one for you all! Been asked to enable the Volume and Power icons in the system tray on a load of CC4 laptops. Anyone know how I can do this? I've been though the various reg policies in CC4 Management Console and can't seem to find anything. Hope someone can help!
X-13 Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 I'll have a look when I get back in, but I think the power icon is in the laptop computer settings.
Sam_Brown Posted September 23, 2013 Author Posted September 23, 2013 I'll have a look when I get back in, but I think the power icon is in the laptop computer settings. I did find it. However when I disable it it still doesn't show the power icon...
X-13 Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 I did find it. However when I disable it it still doesn't show the power icon... What does the setting say? Its been a while since I've looked at it... Is it a triple checkbox? [Enable/disable/not set]
Sam_Brown Posted September 23, 2013 Author Posted September 23, 2013 Aye. Green tick for enable... Red tick for disable... Black for not set... I assume lol.
rad Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 If win7 try loggin on with admin account, I found one account show sound/volume another didn't.
Sam_Brown Posted September 23, 2013 Author Posted September 23, 2013 Windows 7. I did log on as admin. It let me manually set it to show the icons using the notification settings but it doesn't show to students.
Edu-IT Posted September 23, 2013 Posted September 23, 2013 Have you made sure RM Volume program isn't installed to the computer and that the setting to hide Volume Control / use RM volume is not enabled?
Chris_ Posted September 24, 2013 Posted September 24, 2013 I think I imported a custom registry fragment to show these. I think there's some information on the RM knowledge library and communities.
Sam_Brown Posted October 7, 2013 Author Posted October 7, 2013 Chatting to RM seems like their Volume Control program doesn't work with Windows 7. Their advice was to manually create a shortcut to the SndVol.exe and stick it in a program set although to me that isn't good enough as want to have the volume control down in the system tray. Someone mentioned a registry fix for this? Would you be kind enough to post some more details?
Chris_ Posted October 7, 2013 Posted October 7, 2013 Chatting to RM seems like their Volume Control program doesn't work with Windows 7. Their advice was to manually create a shortcut to the SndVol.exe and stick it in a program set although to me that isn't good enough as want to have the volume control down in the system tray. Someone mentioned a registry fix for this? Would you be kind enough to post some more details? From the RM Communities: We use a custom registry policy to enable the Sound icon on the system tray, this is the setting you need: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2 ] "Settings"="" Also, make sure "Replace the Windows Volume Control" is unticked under Taskbar in the user policy. 1
Sam_Brown Posted October 8, 2013 Author Posted October 8, 2013 Hi Guys, RM got back to me and Similar to Chris above there was a reg fix for the issue. I'll post the exact response from RM in case anyone else has a similar issue in the future... 1) Please can you copy and paste the text below the line, into a blank notepad document, and save it as VolumeIcon.reg. 3. Once the file has been created, create a custom user registry policy, by cloning one of your existing ones. 4. Edit the new policy, and add the VolumeIcon.reg file as a custom setting. 5. Assign the new registry policy to a test user account, and then log them onto a Windows 7 laptop. You should now see the notification icons on the task bar, including the battery, default Windows volume control, and the network icon. If you are happy with the results this provides, please add the showbattery.reg file to your other user registry policies, or globally via the All Users registry policy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\StuckRects2] "Settings"=hex:28,00,00,00,ff,ff,ff,ff,02,00,00,00,03,00,00,00,44,00,00,00,1e,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,e2,03,00,00,00,05,00,00,00,04,00,00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "EnableAutoTray"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "HideSCAVolume"=dword:00000000 1
Edu-IT Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 @Sam_Brown Would you mind posting the actual reg file as the formatting makes it hard to determine. It'd be helpful! :-)
Sam_Brown Posted October 8, 2013 Author Posted October 8, 2013 Happy to do so. Sorry for being a noob, how do I upload files on here?!?!
Hawkeyez Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 Worked for me, just need to take the spaces out in Curre ntVersion and 00,00,00 ,03,00,00,00 Cheers
Edu-IT Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 Happy to do so. Sorry for being a noob, how do I upload files on here?!?!Might be easier to paste the code here and then link us to it? pastebin - Type, paste, share.
Danp Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 Good frag that. Will get it added soon. As a side point, I have added a short cut to Core Programs for Volume Control and Sound Levels, this normally sorts out the issue.
Edu-IT Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 Have you had to edit the user policy to disable 'replace Windows the Windows Volume Control' or not?
Sam_Brown Posted October 8, 2013 Author Posted October 8, 2013 Have you had to edit the user policy to disable 'replace Windows the Windows Volume Control' or not? Yes had to disable that.
Sam_Brown Posted October 8, 2013 Author Posted October 8, 2013 Yeah we did this as well although the IT teacher was adamant we try and get it in the system tray which is how I found this.
mp4-dave Posted October 8, 2013 Posted October 8, 2013 Yes had to disable that. How did you do this? I've tried all three options, green tick, red cross, blank box, and get a message "a conflict has been found" every time. Anybody else have that?
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