When i change the volume with fn page up and down or brightness with fn up
and down arrows, i used to see a little display that showed a bar increasing
and decreasing as volume and brightness changed. This no longer appears. How
can this be enabled or disabled so that it will function again?

Is this an upgrade or clean install of Vista? Its possible that this is a
OEM specific feature that was bungled with a previous version of Windows you
might have had installed.
--
Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
"Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F2B6CF14-E553-4F07-A614-44D67BE79BB9@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> When i change the volume with fn page up and down or brightness with fn up
> and down arrows, i used to see a little display that showed a bar
> increasing
> and decreasing as volume and brightness changed. This no longer appears.
> How
> can this be enabled or disabled so that it will function again?[/color]

this is a clean install that came with my new dell. It is vista premium
edition.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Is this an upgrade or clean install of Vista? Its possible that this is a
> OEM specific feature that was bungled with a previous version of Windows you
> might have had installed.
> --
> Andre
> Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
> "Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F2B6CF14-E553-4F07-A614-44D67BE79BB9@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > When i change the volume with fn page up and down or brightness with fn up
> > and down arrows, i used to see a little display that showed a bar
> > increasing
> > and decreasing as volume and brightness changed. This no longer appears.
> > How
> > can this be enabled or disabled so that it will function again?[/color]
>
>
>[/color]

And this is something you were using most recently in the OS? You probably
need to contact Dell Support about this.
--
Andre
Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
[url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
"Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96F5D340-443F-4C09-9C0A-8B37A6337A5A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> this is a clean install that came with my new dell. It is vista premium
> edition.
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Is this an upgrade or clean install of Vista? Its possible that this is a
>> OEM specific feature that was bungled with a previous version of Windows
>> you
>> might have had installed.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
>> "Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F2B6CF14-E553-4F07-A614-44D67BE79BB9@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > When i change the volume with fn page up and down or brightness with fn
>> > up
>> > and down arrows, i used to see a little display that showed a bar
>> > increasing
>> > and decreasing as volume and brightness changed. This no longer
>> > appears.
>> > How
>> > can this be enabled or disabled so that it will function again?[/color]
>>
>>
>>[/color][/color]

that on screen display bar, is a feature that comes as an addon with the
computer. Ask dell...or whoever you got the computer from.

It is not part of vista



"Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96F5D340-443F-4C09-9C0A-8B37A6337A5A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> this is a clean install that came with my new dell. It is vista premium
> edition.
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> Is this an upgrade or clean install of Vista? Its possible that this is a
>> OEM specific feature that was bungled with a previous version of Windows
>> you
>> might have had installed.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com[/url]
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> [url]http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry[/url]
>> "Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F2B6CF14-E553-4F07-A614-44D67BE79BB9@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > When i change the volume with fn page up and down or brightness with fn
>> > up
>> > and down arrows, i used to see a little display that showed a bar
>> > increasing
>> > and decreasing as volume and brightness changed. This no longer
>> > appears.
>> > How
>> > can this be enabled or disabled so that it will function again?[/color]
>>
>>
>>[/color][/color]

"Todd" <Todd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:96F5D340-443F-4C09-9C0A-8B37A6337A5A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> this is a clean install that came with my new dell. It is vista premium
> edition.[/color]

Yup, it's the Dell quickset applet.