Media Controls on the Windows 10

Hi nikitque

I have seen at least 15 threads where people are reporting the same thing in the last two days, that would indicate Microsoft have changed something in Windows, but I can find nothing in their documentation about this, and I can find no new setting or registry hack to restore that Media Bar yet . . .

Hi nikitque

I am Dave, an Independent Advisor, I will help you with this . . .

That media bar can be turned on individually in some applications, it looks like you are using Spotify:

Open Spotify and click on 3 dots at the top left corner.

Choose Edit - Preferences

Scroll down to bottom and under Display Options section, find "Show desktop overlay when using media keys" option

That option should be enabled . . .

Hi nikitque

For Chrome, this is the method to enable that Media Bar:

For example if that is the Chrome Browser;

Open Chrome

In the Address bar, paste this and hit Enter:

chrome://flags

On the resulting page, type media key in the search box

Enable 'Hardware Media Key Handling'

Restart Chrome

Also, if that does not enable that Media Bar in Chrome, I have seen this problem on the forums for the last few days, a few people are reporting they cannot enable the Media Bar after a recent Windows 10 update

Do the media keys on your keyboard (if they exist) work as they did before?

Which media controls do you have in mind, specifically? The media controls in the image you included are part of Spotify, a separate app.

I always had media controls as spotify app and as chrome browser. But they dissapeared. Everything is okay with spotify: