Put the Volume Mixer icon back on your taskbar
Sun, 03/23/2008 - 10:57 — Ciprian
Many of our readers asked us to help them put their Volume Mixer icon back to the notification area of their taskbar. Since this has been quite a common problem, we decided to publish this tutorial to help others having this issue.
First, right click on the taskbar and select Properties from the right click menu.
Alternatively, you can go to the Control Panel and type the word 'taskbar' in the search box from the upper-right side. Once the search results are loaded, click on the link that says 'Customize icons on the taskbar'.
The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties window will show up on your screen. Here, go to the tab called Notification Area. In the System icons section check the Volume box and click on OK.
The Volume Mixer icon will now show up in the notification area of your taskbar.
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Comments
Missing Mixer
My volume box was uncheckable the first few times I tried to fix this problem. But after searching "volume mixer" in the Windows Help and Support through the start menu, I was able to open up the volume mixer. Then the next time I clicked on the taskbar properties I was able to click the volume box. Maybe this will help out -- I'm not expert, but the mixer may have to be a recently used program to make that volume box clickable.... or something like that. :)
Oh my!
WOW!
Oddly enough i tried your little method to get my vloume mixer back
and it worked! Thanks for the help. It surprised me a little. :D
Icon Missing/ Rogue Volume mixer
I followed these directions but I could not check on the volume box. So I tried searching for volume mixer and opening it. The next time I tried checking the sound box, it was still uncheckable.
Vista seems to be kidnapping
Vista seems to be kidnapping volume mixers...
thank you
For a while ive been wondering what happened to my volume icon. but i finally got it back thanks to this website
Volume Icon on Taskbar
Under my "Taskbar and Start Menu Properties" Notification Area Heading the "Volume" icon is not highlighted for selection. Was this option somehow turned off? If so, please advise as to where I can turn it back on.
I used a registry cleaner and
I used a registry cleaner and the icons reappeared.... (Uniblue Registry Booster)
Thank you
I have been doing so many searches trying to figure out this very easy step to get my volume control back. I lost the little speaker when I downloaded some updates and did a restart. When I started the computer back up the icon was just gone. Thanks for helping me. I adjust the volume all the time on my laptop and it was annoying going about it the long way.
i need some realt help
ok so like i did all that but the thing is i wont let me check the icon so how do you do that if it wont let you??
Here is the easy fix:
Don't edit your registry, don't reboot, don't....
This is apparently an explorer.exe problem (see this thread at the bottom of this page: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-xp-tips/sound-or-volume-tray-icon-missin...)
1. Start Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del and select Start Task Manager or right-click on empty space on Task Bar and select Task Mgr).
2. Click on Processes.
3. Click on Image Name (this will sort the processes by name--makes it easier for next step.)
4. Click on "explorer.exe".
5. Click on the End Process button.
6. Still in Task Mgr, click on Applications tab.
7. Click on the New Task... button.
8. Type in "explorer.exe" and hit enter.
[Note: Steps 6 & 7 is the same as clicking on File on the Task Mgr menu, then selecting New Task (Run...). Same number of mouse clicks.]
Your icons will reappear.
Brad
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