Aggrivated with AlienFX - Help?

Hey everyone. M11xR2 owner here. The other day I was cleaning up some things on my machine to speed up boot time. One of the things I turned off in MSConfig by acident was FATrayMon (Sensible Vision). Since then, I havent been able to turn on battery charging or AlienFX via the FN keys.

I re-enabled this in msconfig. Ive reinstalled Command center and Ive reinstalled OSD. What am I doing wrong? I dont think disabling battery charge has ever worked, but I use the toggle for AlienFX to go dark quite often.

I also no longer have on screen displays for brightness and audio toggling like I used to.

*Edit*

Also, when I go into the AlienFC controller and click on the Alien Touch icon at the bottom, should that give me an error screen and crash the program? That has always happened even when the machine was stock.

 

Alien Touch shouldn't have any issues, unless if:

you're not admin account
or
no drivers installed beyond stock MS drivers (chose Dell.com or Synaptics.com... I chose Synaptics.com driver since it's not mindlessly feature-locked).

 

If you've installed Synaptics drivers (you should) then AlienTouch is going to crash in CC. AlienFX is really the only thing you should be using Command Center for. The rest of it's better handled ways - 7's own power management, Synaptic's own driver, etc.

Make sure you have the latest BIOS (A03) installed along with the lasted OSD application, both from Dell. Together this gives you fully functional OSD icons for all features.

Fn+F2 does not enable/disable battery charging. It just shows you the battery's current charge. There is however a Dell utility that was originally for some of their netbooks that someone here has found that will allow you to enable/disable charging. Search for that.