Windows 10: Volume meter is stuck on the screen at all times registering 100%.

I've tried windows update, driver updates, uninstalling the sound device, and sound trouble shooter. Keyboard keys are not responding. Nothing changes. No solutions posted in any forums have worked and in fact most aren't even addressing these problems in the last year or two. I have a Lenovo and operating Windows 10. Can anyone help? I always keep my sytem on mute and the volume came on out of nowhere.


I can't see all the topic choices because the sound bar icon is in the way, so I'm just guessing on the topic.

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volume meter overlaid at top left of screen; volume stuck at 100%

BTW, strategy #2 didn't work. (I tried it since I didn't want to try #1 without asking first).

Also, BTW, I'm not sure the little box stuck in the upper left corner is a volume control; I think it's just a volume meter. One cannot change it from 100% there by clicking on it, trying to drag it, etc. The only way to change it from 100% is by clicking
on the icon in the system tray that looks like a speaker. However, altho that volume control will pretend to be adjusted downward (and the volume meter shows the corresponding change), it immediately moves itself back up to 100%. At one point in messing
around with it, I also found a dialog box that had 2 volume controls; I think one was for speakers and one was for headset. There was a line linking the two, and they could only be moved together -- but they also immediately readjusted themselves to 100%
(and the volume meter showed the same moves).

 

volume meter overlaid at top left of screen; volume stuck at 100%

This has been going on since an August Windows 8 patch. I installed Windows 10 hoping it would fix it, but it has not.

I am running a Lenovo Yoga.

I have a little blue bar inside a black box on the upper left corner of the screen, on top of all other screens. This means, for example, that icons for Outlook, Word, you name it, are covered up if they happen to be in that corner.

The little box, which I am thinking is a volume meter, appears to be connected to the audio volume. It always shows 100%, as does the sound (the little icon that looks like a speaker on the system tray). If I try to adjust the sound to a lower level, it
puts itself back at 100%. That would be almost OK, because I could just never listen to any audio. But it's not OK that the volume meter at the top left stays on top of everything else.

At one point, in Windows 8, I managed to uninstall the Conexant program, which made the little box go away.

In Windows 10, I can uninstall Conexant, but the little box doesn't go away, and the next time I reboot Conexant has re-installed itself.

I'm about to turn this box into a doorstop.

What IS this annoying little black box, and how can I make it go away?

 

volume meter overlaid at top left of screen; volume stuck at 100%

I finally found way to disable the audio everywhere on the computer, which got rid of the annoying volume meter. But, of course, that means I can't listen to anything on the computer. Not a totally bad outcome, since having the volume unchangeably at 100%
was not great.

Still hoping perhaps a subsequent patch will fix the problems the August patch created. But I'm not counting on it. Now looking at Macs to avoid this problem.