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graemec5
Dec 02, 2020Brass Contributor
Media Keys and Teams notifications
If I use keyboard media keys to pause music when I receive a call in teams, the notification sound doesn't seem to get dismissed when I answer the call. So, when I later press play, it also resumes p...
- Dec 28, 2020Hi graemec5
Known issue, as raised here on uservoice
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/39956326-media-keys-affecting-teams-web-app
If you go to that uservoice, a few comments down you should see a solution to this: go to avatar > settings > permissions > turn off midi device. People have reported that it has solved it for them
Hope this resolves and answers your question
Best, Chris
AndreDIAL
Feb 16, 2021Copper Contributor
dhvik thank you very much!
Your suggestion didn't work for me perfectly as my registry entry got overwritten with every restart of windows but this is my modified solution now:
1) Go to settings and switch off "Auto-start application"
2) Go to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs and search for "Microsoft Teams" / Right click on the short cut / Copy
3) Press WIN+R / type in shell:startup
4) Right click in the autostart folder / Paste (now the shortcut should have been added to your autostart folder)
5) Right click on the short cut / properties / short cut and copy/paste the following to target:
C:\Users\My Name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe --processStart "Teams.exe" --process-start-args "-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling --system-initiated"
6) Apply changes
7) Restart your computer
This works fine for me now. Hope it helps you, too .
dhvik
Feb 16, 2021Copper Contributor
AndreDIAL I noticed the same. Seems that Teams updates the autostart registration each time it starts (and overwrites any changes).
I also switched off the autostart setting (in Teams configuration). This removed the registry autostart key.
Then you are free to manually launch teams any way you would like to.
(I added a new key to the same registry folder and named it Teams instead, but a shortcut in the autostart folder as you mentioned, works just as fine)