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[WIN8] what is the W8 startup iType program?

Thanks, we have a usb keyboard and mouse on that computer so that explains it.

I have a USB keyboard and USB laser mouse on my Win 8 computer and I do NOT have "itype.exe" anywhere. So, unless your keyboard and mouse were purchased from Microsoft, I don't think plencnerb answer applies.

I have never heard of this program. I have a multimedia keyboard with special buttons on it that I have no idea what they do. The keyboard comes with the computer I bought, otherwise, I would not have gotten a multimedia keyboard as I think they are not worth the extra money. (But that's just my opinion).

As for volume on the screen....that is always in the systray along with controls for volume for your sound card...so I don't know how it would not be on your screen if you disabled itype.exe. I'm glad I don't have a Microsoft keyboard or mouse because I have had them in the past and not worth it to me for the extra software that has to be running all the time.
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reply to Gem

That's in your systray? That is a very strange looking volume control icon. What does the "32" mean and the different colors on the bar?

Windows 8 has an odd looking volume icon but not as strange as yours and looking at it you can guess it is the volume icon. I like the one from XP. I also have a Dell volume icon that is the same concept as the Windows 8 one but just a bigger bullhorn.
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No. That is the one that gets displayed on my screen near the upper left corner of the screen! It only shows when I am actually making changes to the volume, and then is only displayed for like 3 or 5 seconds afterwards. Then it goes away.

The 32 is the volume level (0 to 100). It kind of looks like a slider control, with the white part being the top of the slider, and the brown being the part as it comes up. The gray above the white is where you can move the slider up to.

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reply to Gem
A similar "pop-up" show up on my laptop when I change the brightness level of the screen.
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Ahh... so that just shows up when you adjust the volume. Both of my icons just work from the systray. I've never had a volume control one popup in the upper left corner. I bet that has to do with Metro in Win 8. I have that turned off with Start8 so I don't the active program showing up in the upper left corner unless I were to switch to Metro screen and open it from there.
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As far as I know, it does not have to do with Metro at all. That screen shot was taken from my desktop. I just cropped it to show just the volume pop-up thing.

It has to do with the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center software. When I was running Windows 7, it did something similar, in the same location. It looked a little different, was slightly smaller, and a different color. But, really the same thing.

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I have that volume control graphic on my laptop without any usb type mouse or keyboard plugged in. Apparently part of win8. Have same display graphic for a screen brightness control indicator but lacks the percentages - wish it had those.

So maybe it comes from Power Options.

What kind of laptop? Did you load Windows 8 on it yourself, or did it come with it pre-installed.

The reason I ask is that a lot of Laptops offer the on-screen features like this. However, in the case of most laptops (Lenovo and Asus), there is software that you load to get those features to work (at least that was the case in Windows 7).

I really do think its my Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard software that is doing this. And, I think that if you have a laptop that also has that functionally, it is a 3rd party application doing it.

However, I am one who likes to verify my assumptions to see if I am correct or not. Since I still do have that extra 80 GB EIDE hard drive, I could plug that back in and do a "clean install" of Windows 8 and see what kind of on-screen functionally I get out of the box. I am almost certain that my keyboards programmable buttons did not work until I installed the Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse Center software. I also thought the on-screen volume display did not work until the software was installed as well. If I get a few minutes today, I'll do a quick install of Windows 8 on that 2nd hard drive and report back with what I find out.

With all the advances of Windows 8, that functionally may finally be built-in to the OS, instead of having it rely on 3rd party applications.

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Sounds like it may be a built-in function of the OS then.

Its good that this kind of functionally is now built-in. The advantage of that is the look is now "standard". Looking back at different hardware vendors, they all had their version of "On Screen displays". Now the location, colors, etc are all standard, regardless of the hardware, as it is now a function of the OS. It also makes life a bit easier when you go to install the OS clean onto a given system, as that is one less item you have to track down on the manufactures web page. Sure, on a laptop you may have specific function keys that may not work yet, but at least the on-screen display should work.

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The laptop I have is a Dell Inspiron 1525 which originally came with Vista when purchased several years ago.
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said by dib22:

said by plencnerb:

Sounds like it may be a built-in function of the OS then.

Agreed and if you are on a clean 8 with itype.exe running then it appears that it might be auto-installed as well... note the MS page for intellitype pro doesn't mention 8 at all:

»www.microsoft.com/en-us/download···id=26950

(of course it hasn't been updated since 2011 so who knows )

Well in my case I know itype.exe was not running on clean install of the OS. That did come once I installed the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center. I don't remember if I had the volume on-screen display thing prior to the install of that software or not. From what others are saying, it sounds like that is now the case. A quick swap of hard drives and an install of Windows 8 Pro to a spare HD will help verify this!

Oh I should also point out that during the install of Windows 8, there is an option if you want to select "Express Settings" or "Custom Settings". I always choose "Custom". One of them has do to with Windows automatically getting device drivers, apps, and info for new device. The setting that Microsoft has as the default is "On". I turn that to "Off", as i want to install my own drivers.

Knowing that option is "On By default", and if you choose the "Express Option", the same would be true there as well. So, it could be the fact that Windows 8 will see the hardware, install the needed drivers, and software (in my case, Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center) automatically, which is why it just "works". Again, this is something that I can verify when I do install Windows 8 Pro to a spare hard drive this morning.

By the way, the link you have is the old one. Here is the one for the new "Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center", which is the replacement to IntelliType Pro.

»www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us···d-center

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reply to Mele20
The usb keyboard is a wired IBM model that must be at least 10 years old.

The usb mouse however is a wireless MSFT 4000 model.

No user installed any additional software with regard to the mouse or keyboard.

It appears the extra processes are somthing that Windows 8 must enable automatically when it detects a wireless USB keyboard or mouse. Perhaps only if one of those devices is a MSFT product.

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