How to Bring Back Old Volume Slider on Windows – Guide
Windows 10 is a big step up from Windows 8.1. It has many new features and improvements, especially in the areas of notifications, date and time, networking, and volume control. ..
Despite all these positive developments, not everyone is happy with them. If you don’t like the new volume control and miss the old vertical volume slider in Windows 7 and 8, you can restore it by editing the Registry.
In this Windows 10 tutorial, we will show you how to create a new registry entry to restore volume control to the notification area on your PC. This will help you keep track of your volumes and be able to see what is going on with them without having to open the Control Panel.
How to bring back the old volume control to Windows 10
Open the Run command by pressing the Windows key + R.
Regedit is a tool that allows you to change the settings of your computer. You can find it in the Start menu.
The path to the Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion.
Select the Export button on the right-hand side of the window. In the Export dialog box, select a location to save your key and click Save. ..
The new key MTCUVC is now active. ..
Type the following value into the DWORD Value field and click OK: EnableFileSync Now, select the MTCUVC key (folder) and right-click on the right side, select New and click DWORD Value (64-bit). Type the following value into the DWORD Value field and click OK: EnableFileSync64 ..
EnableMtcUvc = (DWORD)1;
Double-click the newly created DWORD and make sure its value is set to 0.
Reboot your computer to apply the changes.
Final note
If you’re looking to bring back an old volume slider on your Windows computer, then this guide is for you. In this article, we’ll show you how to do it using the following steps:
- Open the Start Menu and type “cmd” into the search bar.
- When cmd is displayed, click on it.
- Type “netstat -an” into the command prompt and hit enter.
- The netstat -an output will show you all of your network connections and their status. If there are any volumes that are associated with those connections, then they will be listed in the “Volumes” section of the output. If there aren’t any volumes associated with those connections, then the “Files” section of the output will be empty.