Windows 10: Volume slider stuck on top left of screen when listening to any audio

Hey all.


As you may have read from the title, when listening to any kind of audio on my pc, the audio slider appears and only goes away when the program is closed. I have noticed this problem occurs every 2-ish times I turn on my pc. While listening to Spotify it will show and then keep skipping through my songs.

I have finally become really annoyed and straight away posted this question for some help. I haven't restarted the pc yet so the problem is currently occurring.

Help would be greatly appreciated!


Thanks in advance.




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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?

 

No Audio Slider & Notification Center


Just did a clean install of 10162, but now when I click on the volume control or notification icons nothing happens. The volume works, but I must right click the volume icon and open the volume mixer to control the volume. There is no audio slider. The notification center doesn't do anything, whether I right or left click it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

 

No Audio Slider & Notification Center

I had run Auslogics Registry Cleaner after install and it messed up my system.