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

Thanks for the post, I indeed use ExplorerPatcher.

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

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.

This is the way. ^

Just got a new Lenovo w Win11 after getting kinda-sorta used to Windows 10 over the past couple years. After discovering the DISGUSTING placement of volume bar, googlin led me here. As they're already stated in thread, don't need to repeat the many/legit reasons why this change was an absolutely horrible idea on MS part, most crucially to not even enable setting to force previous default. Was very nervous when the first several / official comment indicated the best solution was to "leave feedback" in hopes the devs would implement a fix (lmao, god bless their lil bureaucratic hearts).

After reading Emeskey's post, gave Modern Flyouts a try, and it's exactly (half) the fix: just as customizable as you need it to be, nice and dark and high-contrast visible, and can be placed on the screen in almost any place someone might want.

EXCEPT: the native disgusting Win 11 flyouts (volume, brightness) still appear in their usual spot, so only half the issue has been solved since they will still obscure that high-value real estate, extremely frustrating when consuming fullscreen media (which is like, a decent chunk of the time you'd be adjusting the volume...)

Gonna give HideVolumeOSD a try to complete the solution and will report back!

Edit: HideVolumeOSD works as advertised to hide the annoying Win11 default volume (+ brightness!) display! Hooray!
One small caveat (minor) : there are some additional options to configure showing the volume in the systray, which is kinda cool IMO. This doesn't appear to work if you have the taskbar auto-hide, as I do. Very small issue though as main purpose of HideVolume is to do just that ;-)

CONCLUSION: Modern Flyouts (from MS store) + HideVolumeOSD (from link in Emeskey's post above) solved all Win11 volume/brightness bar display issues for me. I also saw some mentions of (+ problems with...) another app ExplorerPatcher; I have neither heard of nor used that and did not need it for my use case.

If you don't need more, the add-on you found is probably the most lightweight solution, so thanks for sharing that tidbit that will no doubt be helpful to others.

In my case, I was already using ExplorerPatcher to restore some of the options had that were removed in Win11, particularly regarding the taskbar and start menu (#1 for me was the ability to put the taskbar on the side of the screen instead of the bottom - I had it on the left side for years). ExplorerPatcher does that and more (here's a PCWorld article about it). Anyway, that's off-topic - I just thought I'd share a little since you hadn't heard of it.

This is the new update and I hate it.

An update that is counterproductive? Say it ain't so!