ThinkPad: Get your on-screen display back on Windows 7.
by Hellreject on Aug.19, 2009, under Uncategorized
Ever since Windows 7 was released, there’s been a steady flow of users coming to the ThinkPad forums, asking about how one can get the on-screen display to work again on Windows 7. Even I have been looking around for the answer, but so far, no working solution has surfaced. Today however, I managed to find the answer to our problems, and I’m surprised I didn’t do this earlier.
What you need for this to work, is the beta versions of the Hotkey driver, and the Lenovo System Interface Driver. The Hotkey features driver can be found here, and the Lenovo System Interface Driver can be found here.
After both those are downloaded, you should unpack them, and run the Setup files. After you’ve installed both programs, do a reboot. The on-screen volume and brightness displays should now work.
Note: Some users might need the Power Manager driver. I didn’t, but I suspect others do. In any case, that one can be found here.
