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.
dawust Hey, thank you very much for this tip. Seems to work fine.
BTW just use notepad++ with HEX-Editor Plugin to edit it.
- I really hate that Microsofts approach has become "make everything as primitive as can be for idiot users" without giving their users any option to customize their apps anymore. Back in the day you had tons of settings, now everythings forced onto you. Same for Windows 11. Took me one year to find some hidden Windows <10 menus where I could finally disable Headset mode on my bluetooth headphones, just so that games and Teams stopped enabling Headset mode everytime although I explicitly deactivated those audio devices. All they make is more problems and worse software...
unionpMicrosoft
I just tried it, and when I set that byte to 00, Teams won't launch until I change it back to 01 😞
What is the filepath of your Teams shortcut 'C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe --processStart "Teams.exe"' or 'C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\current\Teams.exe'? The former one doesn't work for me either, maybe Update.exe verifies the checksum of Teams.exe. So could you just try to start Teams.exe instead if it isn't already the case.
- unionpAh yes, that was the issue, thanks!! Guess I just gotta change my shortcuts 🙂 Hope this helps someone else hitting the same issue!
