Forum Discussion
Media Keys and Teams notifications
- Hi 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
The command line parameters are no longer passed to the Chromium instance of Electron. I'm not sure if it's a bug of Teams or Electron, but I have my guess 😉
But you can still disable HardwareMediaKeyHandling by some advanced methods. Take a hex editor and search for HardwareMediaKeyHandling in teams.exe.
You'll find something like:
4D 65 64 69 61 4B 65 79 48 61 6E 64 6C 69 6E 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 C7 09 47 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Replace the last instance of 01 with 00 which should disable HardwareMediaKeyHandling again
4D 65 64 69 61 4B 65 79 48 61 6E 64 6C 69 6E 67 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 C7 09 47 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
This will most likely violate the end-user license agreement and these changes will also most likely be reverted by any Teams update. But if you came this far, you should be able to find a way to patch the file automatically after every Teams update.
Well, that's what we are left with when Teams can't get basic features right in 2022.
Hex editing worked for me today Christian_Wenz
I had to change the 01 to 00 on the first byte of the last group of 8 bytes
4861726477617265 4D656469614B6579
48616E646C696E67 0000000000000000
38C7094701000000 0100000000000000I don't recommend people do this unless they know what they are doing though, you will end up having to reinstall if it goes wrong.
- The second to last group of 8 bytes is different for me, which is why I was confused. I can confirm that it does in fact work for me now, as well.
