Lenovo onscreen display utility windows 10

Hi there, I recently changed my hard drive to SSD, so I had to reinstall Windows. Before that, I had nice screen indicators that showed up if I clicked on Caps Lock, Numlock or if I changed the Volume. I liked it.

After reinstalling Windows, this feature has disappeared. I tried searching for it on Google, it says I shoud go to Control Panel->Display->Adjust Resolution->Advanced Settings->On-Screen Display

However there’s no «On-Screen Display» tab. I tried installing Lenovo Energy Managment, but the tab is still missing.

How do I enable it? What I am doing wrong?

Windows 10 Pro 64bit (10586 Build)

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Would this be the same indicator you need?

» The on-screen indicator functions are installed as part of the Hotkey Features Integration package and is available from Support Site, download the latest version. «

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Would this be the same indicator you need?

» The on-screen indicator functions are installed as part of the Hotkey Features Integration package and is available from Support Site, download the latest version. «

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Re: Y50-70. On-Screen Display setting missing. (Windows 10)

Yes, that’s it, thanks.

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Great that it all works now .

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Lenovo onscreen display utility windows 10

Hi — I have a T530 with nVidia graphics. After the October update, I lost Bluetooth, Lenovo Vantage, and the onscreen display for the thinklight and backlit keyboard. After following all the suggestions in https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Pre-Installed-Lenovo-Software/Vantage-has-encountered-a-problem-Windows-1809/td-p/4228092/page/5, I wasn’t able to make Vantage work, so I’ve just given up. I’ve manaed to fix Bluetooth, but I’m still having a problem with the On Screen display: I have caps lock, microphone mute, speaker volume and brightness (FN+FX), but not Fn+spacebar for thinklight/backlit keyboard.

The machine started as Win 7 and was upgraded through Win 8.1 to Win 10.

The installed software is:

Lenovo PM Device 1.67.14.7

Lenovo Interface Foundation V2 device 1.1.16.0

FN and Function keys 9.0.2.15

Lenovo Solution Center 3.12.003 (which can not connect to the warranty server)

System Update 5.07.0072

But here’s the thing, which I think may be the problem: In looking at two other Thinkpads that both started with Win 7 (an X1 gen 1 and another T530) it works. They have something called Settings dependency installed. But more importantly, in the various HOTKEY directories, they have files that are missing from this machine:

And a few others.

On this 530, I can find those files in C:\DRIVERS\HOTKEY\OSD\_amd64 but not in C:\Program Files\Lenovo\HOTKEY, or C:\ProgramData\Lenovo.

Can you suggest a way to fix this? It seems to me like the wrong hotkey OSD package is installed, without the thinklight/backlit keyboard icon/exe files. (And, can you point me to someplace to download the correct package?)

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

I tested on T430 and found same problem about ThinkLight OSD not appearing on Win10. Then I found the solution. Please try this:

1. uninstall «Fn and Function Keys» from Device Manager, if it exists

2. uninstall «Lenovo On Screen Display» from Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features, if it exists

3. Download hotkeys 8.86.25 (n1qvub3w.exe) from T430/Win7 download site.

4. From your download folder, right-click on n1qvub3w.exe and select Troubleshoot compatibility

5. Choose the option about «Troubleshoot program»

6. Choose the option about «The program worked in earlier versions of Windows»

7. Choose the option about «Windows 7»

8. Click on «Test the program» which will run you through the hotkeys installer, then reboot as prompted at the end.

Why this problem happens: ThinkLight was removed after T430. The first Win10 ThinkPad was T450. Hotkeys installer mistakenly assumes that all Win10 ThinkPads won’t have any ThinkLight, so no need to install that component. We can trick the hotkeys installer by running it in Win7 compatibility mode.

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Between hotkeys version 8.x and 9.x, it was changed from an application to a driver. This means, most of hotkeys files are now installed to driver repository (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\fn.inf_XXX) and not to C:\Program Files\Lenovo\HOTKEY. To try to solve your problem, I would uninstall «Fn and Function Keys» from Device Manager. If there is anything like «On Screen Display» in Control Panel -> Programs and Features, I would uninstall that also. Then, delete the entire C:\Program Files\Lenovo\HOTKEY folder and re-install hotkeys from here: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds120449

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Hi, thanks so much for answering. Did everything you said, but the onscreen backlit keyboard and thinklight notification icons still don’t work. (All the others are working) I could be wrong (I’m way over my head here) but I don’t think the dlls and exe’s for that function is in the Fn download you sent me. 9.0.2.15.

But I think they exist in a subdirectory: C:\DRIVERS\HOTKEY\OSD\_amd64. But the files in there go back to 2013/2014.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks, I really appreciate you’re trying to help me.

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Try uninstall it again, but this time, install an older hotkeys. https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles/n1wvu25w.exe

«C:\DRIVERS\HOTKEY\OSD\_amd64» is just the installation files. Nothing runs from this folder. It’s like a temp folder.

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Weird. Still no luck. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Weird. Still no luck. Any other suggestions? Thanks.

Just to clarify, the Fn+Space key makes the light turn on and off, but there isn’t any on-screen status display about it. I am understanding the problem correctly?

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Yes. The other on-screen displays work with the Fn key.

And every time I make some change in the device manager Fn key to either update or remove and reinstall, I lose bluetooth.

As I said, it’s weird.

And thank you again for staying with me on this.

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

Forget about the bluetooth. That was another problem with the October update. I think I finally fixed it.

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Re: Thinklight backlit keyboard onscreen display missing after October Windows 10 update

I tested on T430 and found same problem about ThinkLight OSD not appearing on Win10. Then I found the solution. Please try this:

1. uninstall «Fn and Function Keys» from Device Manager, if it exists

2. uninstall «Lenovo On Screen Display» from Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features, if it exists

3. Download hotkeys 8.86.25 (n1qvub3w.exe) from T430/Win7 download site.

4. From your download folder, right-click on n1qvub3w.exe and select Troubleshoot compatibility

5. Choose the option about «Troubleshoot program»

6. Choose the option about «The program worked in earlier versions of Windows»

7. Choose the option about «Windows 7»

8. Click on «Test the program» which will run you through the hotkeys installer, then reboot as prompted at the end.

Why this problem happens: ThinkLight was removed after T430. The first Win10 ThinkPad was T450. Hotkeys installer mistakenly assumes that all Win10 ThinkPads won’t have any ThinkLight, so no need to install that component. We can trick the hotkeys installer by running it in Win7 compatibility mode.

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