Dell :: Quickset: Change Volume Dialogue Position

I couldn't find any info on this and seem to have figured this out. On the Dell I got (Studio 1735 / Windows Vista Home Premium), the volume dialogue (the volume slider that appears when you press the up/down volume media touch buttons) showed up in some strange place in the upper left corner. I wanted it in the lower right corner.

So, follow the following steps:

1. Find the Quickset Icon in the icon tray. Right-click it and "Exit".

2. Fire up regedit (Start > Run > regedit).

3. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREDell Computer CorporationQuickSet.

4. Backing up is strongly recommended as when performing any operations with the registry. At least back up the part you are changing. To backup, just rightclick the Quickset node and do "Export" to a file.

5. Find VolumeDlgX and VolumeDlgY keys. These hold the x&y position of the volume dialogue. Change them to whatever you want (note that by default the values are in HEX, but you can change them to decimal when setting them). I used the position of BrightnessDlgX/BrightnessDlgY (the Brightness dialogue which did appear where I wanted it) as reference).

6. Reboot the computer.

Note that if you start Quickset without rebooting, it appears to overwrite the registry values with the ones that were there before the change.