How to change volume bar from middle bottom to top left on the screen

for those just joining us, please see my post which (In my humble opinion) accurately summarizes the solution (that worked for me). Yes it requires installing two different programs (one of which is third party; one is from the good ol' MS app store) but such is the way it is until Windows overlords listen to their users and stop making horrible UX decisions.

EDIT: because this message board UX doesn't properly show the entire history of replies, here is the item I was responding to ("^this is the way") from user Emeskey on May 25, 2023 (couldnt find a way to link to it either - double shame on you MS for such a crappy message board platform!)

"If it's any help, I found an app in the Microsoft Store called "ModernFlyouts (Preview)" that allows you to customize the volume and brightness sliders, unfortunately it doesn't replace the current UI and also the app's slider can't be positioned vertically, but at least you can place it where you have better visibility on your screen.

Edit: I found a solution for the annoying current bottom-centered slider, there's an app called "HideVolumeOSD" that can get rid of it but doesn't interfere with the first app, you can find it here: HideVolumeOSD 1.4 for Windows 10 and 11 | Venturi.de."

Info for everyone watching this thread: ModernFlyouts puts the bar back in the top left (or wherever you want it) and make it nice and visible!

Even though my Windows Update is still paused for a few more days and the Update History doesn't report anything recent, after a reboot this morning I lost the volume bar again. ExplorerPatcher also updated, but the bug was not fixed on that side either. So I installed ModernFlyouts, not really expecting it to do much other than avoid the bug. But it's a floating volume bar that can be dragged anywhere on the screen, and even defaults to the top left corner. It's also bigger and easily to read at a glance than the default one. ModernFlyouts can apparently do something similar for other controls as well, but the only one I use much is volume, so I turned off the others for simplicity.

Thanks for the post, I indeed use ExplorerPatcher.

I just installed ModernFlyouts and it's perfect for me.

On my screen, that bar is completely gone?

Is that a bug or a new update?

That happened to me too. In my case it was a combination of the most recent Windows Update (KB5029263) and running ExplorerPatcher (third-party tool) to get a Win10-style taskbar. If you use ExplorerPatcher, this might also apply to you. A discussion of this is on two "issues" on Github:

• https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/1772
• https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/1692

Both threads start out with a lot of chatter about unstable preview updates, but if you scroll down on either or both, you'll see that some people (including me - I'm "OsakaWebbie" on the first thread) have the problem without installing any previews.

So if you're running ExplorerPatcher, this might be your issue, too.

I uninstalled KB5029263 and when Windows Update tried to install it again, I paused updates for a week. For some unexplained reason (which makes me happy) WU says it's paused until 9/19 (over a month) instead of just a week - that will give ExplorerPatcher's developers more time to fix it (or perhaps Windows will have another update that fixes it). If it's not fixed by then, I'll either try the suggested workaround (installing a utility from the MS store called ModernFlyouts, which otherwise does nothing, because the "modern flyout" it would create is the one we're stuck with now - the main topic of this thread!) or just live without the volume bar. I'm not willing to give up on the main reason I use ExplorerPatcher's Win10 taskbar, which is to be able to put the taskbar on the side of the display instead of the bottom - the ability to move the taskbar is yet another good feature that was mysteriously removed in Windows 11.

Same here! It's so annoying to keep looking at the bottom of the screen to change the volume!