This tutorial will show you how to change the position of where hardware indicators appear on-screen by default for your account in Windows 11.
When you change the brightness, volume, airplane mode, or virtual desktops from keyboard actions, you will see a on-screen indicator of that action at the bottom center position by default.
Starting with Windows 11 build 26200.5661 (Dev 24H2) and build 26120.4452 (Beta 24H2), Microsoft is adding the option to move the hardware indicators for brightness, volume, airplane mode, and virtual desktops to different positions on your screen. Microsoft will support the current bottom position and new top left and top center positions on your screen.
If you don't have this feature available in the builds above yet and would like to try it now, then you can enable it using the command below with ViVeTool.
vivetool /enable /id:48103152
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Contents
- Option One: Change Position of On-screen Indicators in Settings
- Option Two: Change Position of On-screen Indicators using REG file
EXAMPLE: Hardware indicator for volume shown at the top left and top center
1 Open Settings (Win+I).
2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Notifications on the right side. (see screenshot below)
3 Select Bottom center (default), Top left, or Top center in the Position of on-screen indicators drop menu for what you want. (see screenshot below)
4 You can now close Settings if you like.
1 Do step 2 (Bottom center), step 3 (top left), or step 4 (top center) below for what you want.
2 Change Position of On-screen Indicators to "Bottom center"
This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 5 below.
On-screen_indicators-Bottom_center.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SystemSettings\ConfirmatorPosition]
"PositionIndex"=dword:000000013 Change Position of On-screen Indicators to "Top left"
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 5 below.
On-screen_indicators-Top_left.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SystemSettings\ConfirmatorPosition]
"PositionIndex"=dword:000000024 Change Position of On-screen Indicators to "Top center"
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the REG file below, and go to step 5 below.
On-screen_indicators-Top_center.reg
Download
(Contents of REG file for reference)
Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SystemSettings\ConfirmatorPosition]
"PositionIndex"=dword:000000035 Save the .reg file to your desktop.
6 Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.
7 When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.
8 You can now delete the downloaded .reg file if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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