My function volume keys started working again! So I suspect my issue all along was Chrome and this, or previous incarnations of this OSD, tying into my OS in a way I had most certainly not asked it to.

This manual comes under the category Laptops and has been rated by 1 people with an average of a 7. Turns out this is a new feature in Chrome enabled by default, and it can be turned off by entering the following flag in the address bar and using the drop-down to disable:Ĭhrome://flags/#hardware-media-key-handling HP HotKey provides support for special function keys. With it continually getting in the way, I went in search of a fix to disable this new annoyance, and found it here:

Then recently, this new large OSD volume control started appearing:Īre you a Windows 10 screen display feature, or something else being invasive.? HP EliteBook 830, 840, 850 G6 and ZBook 14u, 15u G6 Mobile Workstations - Hotkeys Do Not Work After Installing Drivers From the HP DRDVD Notice: : The information in this document, including products and software versions, is current as of the release date.The document is subject to change without notice. So I had kind of given up and was hoping the next Windows update release cycle might fix I suspected HP hotkey drivers being incompatible with recent Win 10 build updates after a lot of driver updates recently. There were a bunch of fixes listed on different sites, none of which worked for me. There’s a lot of people on the web with similar issues over the last few years, and both HP and Windows updates have been blamed equally: For the last 6 months, I’ve been swearing at the Function Volume shortcut keys on my G3 Elitebook not working. Recent versions of HP Hotkeys and HP Programmable Key for the Elitebook G7 laptops (tested with 830, 840 and 835) are not being installed by HPIA.

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