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.

Taskbar Properties

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'.

Taskbar Properties

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.

Taskbar Properties

The Volume Mixer icon will now show up in the notification area of your taskbar.

Comments

Wed, 01/14/2009 - 02:44 — Anonymous (not verified)

I used a registry cleaner and

I used a registry cleaner and the icons reappeared.... (Uniblue Registry Booster)

Sat, 02/14/2009 - 14:21 — Anonymous (not verified)

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.

Sat, 02/28/2009 - 19:26 — i need help (not verified)

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??

Sat, 03/07/2009 - 23:29 — Brad (not verified)

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

Sun, 05/31/2009 - 16:57 — vasu (not verified)

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