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Getting OSD to work in windows 7 t61

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Getting OSD to work in windows 7 t61

#1 Post by xevman » Tue Dec 12, 2023 3:04 pm

Hi,

I recently installed Windows 7 SP1 on my Thinkpad T61. After a bit of poking around I got all drivers working other than the on screen display, the icons that pop up to show you volume adjustment mute and other functionality etc. I installed Hotkey Features Integration for Windows driver package and despite there being a menu to adjust the OSD settings in the display menu, It does not seem to function at all.

Any pointers on how I can get this to work would be great.

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Re: Getting OSD to work in windows 7 t61

#2 Post by TPFanatic » Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:15 pm

Make sure vcredist is up to date, then reinstall hotkey features, go for version 3.81. The newer versions don't work properly on T61 and other laptops Sandy Bridge-era and older.

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Re: Getting OSD to work in windows 7 t61

#3 Post by xevman » Tue Dec 12, 2023 10:03 pm

TPFanatic wrote:
Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:15 pm
Make sure vcredist is up to date, then reinstall hotkey features, go for version 3.81. The newer versions don't work properly on T61 and other laptops Sandy Bridge-era and older.
Thanks for the response. I believe I installed 3.89. I will try 3.81 and update vcredist.

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Re: Getting OSD to work in windows 7 t61

#4 Post by xevman » Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:44 pm

if anyone ends up reading this 3.81 is the correct version to use

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Re: Getting OSD to work in windows 7 t61

#5 Post by zoltan87 » Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:25 pm

Also just a heads up, the 3.81 version is the correctly working one on Windows 8.1 too, on a T60 (and I would assume T61). I remember spending so much time trying to figure out why my OSD settings were not displayed correctly, until I managed to find out that not all versions are compatible with newer Windows versions. Although I always assumed the issue was present only from Win 8 and upward, turns out Win 7 is already problematic in this regard.
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