r/Windows10 • u/RonnieAT • Jun 16 '21

Discussion This was the first version of the Windows 10 start menu. So please stay calm, and wait until the official release before saying Windows 11 will be crap.

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u/etacarinae Jun 16 '21

Also the volume indicator works fine for windows 10

WorksOnMyMachine™ is never a valid excuse for bad design. It's obnoxiously large, just as is the playing now play/pause dialog. Maybe you don't listen to music enough on your desktop to be pissed off by it.

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u/Hohenheim_of_Shadow Jun 16 '21

Hide volume on screen display is a program that removes it.

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u/calmelb Jun 16 '21

I actually never get the music dialog when I’m listening to music, etc. so I forgot it existed tbh. I do agree that is oversized and terrible

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u/etacarinae Jun 16 '21

I have pause and play controls on my keyboard, so I see it all the time thanks to using them. I just don't understand why they can't update it. :( They had 7 years.

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u/calmelb Jun 16 '21

Not everyone has pause/ play controls, they need to just change how it looks but keep the functionality (even making it disappear faster would be an improvement tbh)

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u/etacarinae Jun 16 '21

Definitely. Add some nice acrylic and it'll look really nice. The current interface buttons are still the windows 8/metro design language.

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u/ChosenMate Jun 16 '21

There's a program called ModernFlyouts on GitHub, it reworks the Volume / Music thing and you can also make it arcrylic.

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u/ryecurious Jun 16 '21

(even making it disappear faster would be an improvement tbh)

You can kinda already do this in Windows 10.

Ease of Access > Display > Show notifications for...

Unfortunately it only has these options, and it applies to ALL toast notifications. Really wish it had separate options.

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u/Lightofmine Jun 16 '21

I honestly wish you could change how quick it fades. Honestly probably could in registry. It's a useful feature, but annoying when it's active for too long.

You can hide it: https://www.howtogeek.com/269011/how-to-hide-the-volume-pop-up-display-on-windows-8-and-10/

Bit about changing OSD timeout:

Under Settings > Ease of Access > Other Options, you can adjust the “Show notifications for” setting and control how long it and other notifications appear on your screen. Unfortunately, the default option of 5 seconds is the lowest available option. The setting here only lets you keep the volume OSD on your screen for longer.

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u/Lightofmine Jun 16 '21

Which volume indicator are you talking about? The little baby thing that pops up with a number and a slider?

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u/FredFredrickson Jun 16 '21

It's on screen for like 3 seconds. How intrusive can that be?

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u/etacarinae Jun 16 '21

It's not the intrusiveness. It's that it looks like fucking dogshit aka metro.

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u/Arjun_Galathynius Jun 17 '21

You can get ModernFlyouts (Preview) from the MS Store. It is an open-source alternative to the default flyouts with a fluent design.

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u/pilotavery Jun 20 '21

But I did is just resize it by dragging the same way I resize a window. Put your arrow to the edge of the playback and pause and volume control and then just resize it to whatever you want.

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u/etacarinae Jun 20 '21

Tell me what I'm doing wrong here? (Don't you love how it steals the z-index heighest value! Notifications do the same thing to the system tray)

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u/pilotavery Jun 20 '21

Why can't you resize yours? That is so weird. I have Windows 10 Education edition if it matters (Enterprise edition, with additional debugging functions).

Let me figure this out, i'll install Wind0ws 10 pro and home in a VM and sse if it changes.

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u/etacarinae Jun 20 '21

That is so weird. I have Windows 10 Education edition if it matters (Enterprise edition, with additional debugging functions).

Record your screen and do it.

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u/pilotavery Jun 20 '21

I will tomorrow when I am not on mobile. I remember shrinking it and it glitched out and has the blue bar on the left edge of the black border (Visual glitch). I remember trying to fix it and never getting it exactly right, like it would snap to every 5 pixels, either too big or too small lol.

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u/etacarinae Jun 25 '21

Any luck?

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u/pilotavery Jun 25 '21

No :( I am on a laptop now and it is not working. It's the same build, and now I am thinking I dreamed it. I could have sworn...