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
Thanks
My volume control and network icon was missing but with your tutorial I was able to fix it in less than 45 secs. Thanks Greatly
Followed these and Hey
Followed these and Hey Presto! got them back. Thanks!
check box is locked
trying to get the volume, network and power mini icons back in my tray but there locked and i cant mark them. why is this???
thanks so much if you can help!
heres a link to an image if that helps-
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2474/3826402962_5837a66ef6.jpg
my taskbar
hey dude .. i saw the tutorial it was great but theres one small problem ... when i see the volume thing and i click on it nothing happens no check or anything ..... idk what happened please help ?
Maybe a fix
After I restarted my computer (I'm not sure if you have to though) I right clicked on the taskbar to bring the menu up. Instead of clicking "properites" uncheck "lock the task bar" after that follow the instructions for the tutorial above and then relcok your taskbar. I hope it works for you.
i checked this out b4 but it
i checked this out b4 but it was unable check ,but now its suddenly appeared thnx a lot anyway!
Help me get back my volume icon
I also cannot seem to get my volume icon back up. It's greyed out under the properties tab. I'm installing a game that wont stop playing the intro music and I want to shut it off. GRRR
Help please
Shortcut / Link
How about Microsoft be consistent and also put a shortcut/link to the volume mixer in the start menu ? I think it was in accessories/multimedia, even just accessories would be nice.
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