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I use Microsoft Teams in my corporate environement.

I have a multimedia keyboard (Logitech MX keys if it matters) that have a play/pause button.

When I press the button, it triggers the Microsoft Teams ring tone (even if no communication is active). Popup contains Microsoft Teams Notification:

Microsoft Teams ring tone

The right button in the prompt takes me to my actual multimedia app (Deezer Windows 10 app).

How to avoid MS Teams to be registered as a multimedia app ? Not sure what's the behind the scene regarding this windows feature.

PS: my system is Windows 10 x64 20H2 professional. MS Teams is in the release channel (I guess)

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Reset to default
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Start Teams with -disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling

eg. C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\current\Teams.exe -disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling

or C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe --processStart "Teams.exe" --process-start-args="-disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling"

Source: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/teams-and-media-keys/136320bb-7af0-4bdc-8743-56608ff576b2?page=2

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    Sounds promising, however the autostart registry entry automatically reverted to its original value. :-( Maybe a new one (and disabling autostart in Teams) would do the trick.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Feb 24, 2021 at 13:03
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    For the record: no longer works for me on version 1.5.00.28361 on Windows. The flag is no longer propagated to child processes.
    – hectorct
    Commented Oct 18, 2022 at 10:37
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    Yep, no longer working for me. Any other work arounds would be massively appreciated!
    – Dutchmanjonny
    Commented Nov 15, 2022 at 11:52
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    No longer working of Nov 2022. You can hack the .exe with a hex editor and find the string HarwareMediaKeyHandling and look for the closest lonely 01 right of that, and change it to a 00.
    – Iain M Norman
    Commented Nov 16, 2022 at 10:07
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    Typo in the above comment, it should be HardwareMediaKeyHandling. For more details, see techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/…
    – UnionP
    Commented Nov 16, 2022 at 20:13
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This works for me on MacOS:

Terminal command: open "/Applications/Microsoft Teams.app" --args -disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling

Paste it into a terminal and you are good to go.

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    Commented May 4, 2022 at 12:07
  • @oscar-wieman This stopped working recently (current version 1.5.00.21551). Do you have this issue again, too? Have you figured out why this fix doesn't work anymore?
    – maiermic
    Commented Aug 22, 2022 at 9:23
  • @maiermic I'm on version 1.5.00.21551 and it is still working for me. I wrapped it in an automator application recently and placed it next to my teams application in the task bar: imgur.com/a/1eWqEd2
    – Oscar Wieman
    Commented Aug 23, 2022 at 10:10
  • This solution is no longer working for me. I'll continue to look for a fix and will update my comment when I find one.
    – Oscar Wieman
    Commented Jan 26, 2023 at 13:56
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I've found on a reddit thread that when you use ctrl or shift and your media keys you will stop teams from intercepting.

This works for me but is a bit annoying as you want to press one button.

So to fix this aswell ive used PowerToys (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/) to remap my play/pauze to ctrl+play pause. enter image description here

This seems to work for now, i'll update if this ever starts to fail.

EDIT: PowerToys can do alot of other things aswell and is very easy to install, so don't be scared away from it! I've also used it to map the "scroll lock" key of my laptop to play+pause, as it does not have a play/pause button.

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I have the same problem and I can offer my workaround: When you press play and the Teams ringtone starts along with your music, you can press pause in the Teams Notification popup.

If/when you pause you music again the ringtone should not restart.

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    Its true until the next call ... actually, it seems that the buttons apply to the latest multimedia app that got focus.
    – Steve B
    Commented Dec 15, 2020 at 17:01
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For all Linux Users: Change the last line in file /bin/teams nohup "$TEAMS_PATH" "$@" --disable-namespace-sandbox --disable-setuid-sandbox --disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling > "$TEAMS_LOGS/teams-startup.log" 2>&1 &

(Just add --disable-features=HardwareMediaKeyHandling before the > "$Teams_LOGS)

(This is for MS Teams on Arch installed over pacman, might not work for other installs.)

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