These days Laptop / computers like Asus come with handy shortcut buttons on the keyboard to give users easy access to different features. These features include multimedia options such as volume buttons and system options such as brightness, power management etc. With Asus laptops, one should be careful while removing bloatwares using specialized softwares. One may accidentally remove some of the
hotkeys required for the
volume buttons to work properly. These
hotkeys can be retrieved by doing a system restore.
Volume Buttons not working on an Asus Laptop
Issue
I just bought an Asus N61JQ-X1
laptop and immediately proceeded to
remove the bloatware using PC decrapifier. Everything works great except for the volume function buttons on the keyboard, which don't work at all (other function buttons such as
brightness do work). Also, the volume buttons above the keyboard on the Altec Lansing speakers don't work. The volume control on the
windows taskbar and the speakers themselves are working properly. I'm wondering if I may have accidentally removed something that was needed for these buttons to work.
Solution
I did a system restore and it turns out I did remove something essential: the
ATK and
ATKOSD2 Hotkey, which seem to be necessary for the volume function buttons!
Note
Solved by
jefffrozen on the forum.
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