This is an AutoHotkey script you can use to hide (and restore) the Windows volume osd (on-screen display).

Whenever you adjust the volume in Windows, a volume level display appears at the top left, sometimes with a large media summary of a video you are watching. This covers up a portion of the screen for several seconds and can be really bothersome while working.

Windows provides no way of disabling it. Some apps allow you to disable their large media summaries, but it's not always simple (browsers require you to search for obscure settings in their about:config tab, for example), and you still have the annoying volume display itself.

Not any more!

1. Install AutoHotkey version 1.x in order to run .ahk scripts. Not tested with AutoHotkey version 2.
2. Download all files from this repo and extract/place them where you want.
3. Run hide-volume-osd.ahk to hide the volume osd.
4. Run show-volume-osd.ahk to restore the volume osd.

Note: This is not permanent, it will only apply until you restart Windows. Every time you reboot, you will have to run this again to hide the volume osd.

• Must be run every time you reboot, cannot permanently hide the volume osd.
• Only tested on Windows 10, please let me know if it works on Windows 8 and 11.

• Tray icon version, with menus to toggle the volume osd on/off.
• Ability to install itself to automatically run on startup.

The technique used by this script to find and toggle the volume osd was discovered by UnlimitedStack/HideVolumeOSD.