- Where Did My Volume Control Icon Go Windows 7
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Follow these steps to hide your volume speaker icon from the taskbar in Windows 7: Open the start menu, and type ' volume ' in the text box. Windows 7 will display near the top the matching results: click on the link labeled ' Show. The Control Panel will open, and display the ' Turn system. Volume Icon Missing From Taskbar In Windows 7: Solution 3: Via Group Policy Editor. Click Win+R to launch Run. Type gpedit.msc in the given field. Expand Administrative Templates under User Configuration. Then Click on Start Menu and Taskbar. From the list on the right side, Go to Remove the volume control icon and click on it. May 12, 2014 If you actually have some Windows files that have gotten corrupted or been deleted, the process would be more involved and you might not want to tackle this project yourself. Here are some ways to get back your volume icon: Windows 7 or Windows 8: For these two newest versions of Windows, the process is the same.
You want to adjust the sound output of your Windows 7 PC, so you move your cursor to the bottom to find the Volume icon in the taskbar and there you find out that there is no icon there. Well, if you have been in such a situation before, then you know the real struggle. If you actually have some Windows files that have gotten corrupted or been deleted, the process would be more involved and you might not want to tackle this project yourself. Here are some ways to get back your volume icon: Windows 7 or Windows 8: For these two newest versions of Windows, the process is the same.
Step 2:
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...restart the computer and check again.
That's exactly what I did!... when restarting didn't work the 1st and 2nd time, I restarted it again!
I have a HP Compaq PC running Vista.
I installed new HP D2660 printer yesterday,
restarted the computer.
Every icon that is a shortcut to a Firefox browser webpage is blank, doesn't go anywhere.
Volume control is missing from system tray.
No sound on for example YouTube videos.
I doubled-checked everything plugged in ok.
I downloaded a sound driver from HP/Compaq website (which I didn't have to do):
» Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Update for Vista
» Compaq Presario SR5152NX 2008-03-01 , Version:6.0.1.5548, 12.34M
Restarted computer as instructed.
Control Panel, Sound, shows Speakers, Realtek HD Audio: working
Taskbar and Start Menu, right click on system tray taskbar, Properties, Notification Area... Volume icon is gray.
I now have on my Taskbar an icon from HP for RealtekHD Audio Manager but no Volume icon.
Sound now works ok for example on a YouTube video online, but Volume icon still missing from system tray.
Restarted computer.
Went to hp.com, Customer Care for my computer model, instructions for Volume icon on Taskbar:
Right click Taskbar, Properties, Notification Area... Volume now shows black :/ Checked the box, 'apply'.
'If the icon shows in the Notificatioin Area' you're ok... it didn't show.
Restarted computer.
I have a HP Compaq PC running Vista.
I installed new HP D2660 printer yesterday,
restarted the computer.
Every icon that is a shortcut to a Firefox browser webpage is blank, doesn't go anywhere.
Volume control is missing from system tray.
No sound on for example YouTube videos.
I doubled-checked everything plugged in ok.
I downloaded a sound driver from HP/Compaq website (which I didn't have to do):
» Realtek High Definition Audio Driver Update for Vista
» Compaq Presario SR5152NX 2008-03-01 , Version:6.0.1.5548, 12.34M
Restarted computer as instructed.
Control Panel, Sound, shows Speakers, Realtek HD Audio: working
Taskbar and Start Menu, right click on system tray taskbar, Properties, Notification Area... Volume icon is gray.
I now have on my Taskbar an icon from HP for RealtekHD Audio Manager but no Volume icon.
Sound now works ok for example on a YouTube video online, but Volume icon still missing from system tray.
Restarted computer.
Went to hp.com, Customer Care for my computer model, instructions for Volume icon on Taskbar:
Right click Taskbar, Properties, Notification Area... Volume now shows black :/ Checked the box, 'apply'.
'If the icon shows in the Notificatioin Area' you're ok... it didn't show.
Restarted computer.
Came here to Microsoft (it would have been simpler if I had come here in the first place :/
Right clicked on the Taskbar, Notif.Area, clicked on 'Volume' again, clicked OK... volume icon now shows in Notif.Area AND on the Taskbar! yay
I consider myself lucky... I didn't have to do the 15 steps Registry Editor or delete any Explorer registry keys and wouldn't have had to, thank goodness.
Thanks
Right clicked on the Taskbar, Notif.Area, clicked on 'Volume' again, clicked OK... volume icon now shows in Notif.Area AND on the Taskbar! yay
I consider myself lucky... I didn't have to do the 15 steps Registry Editor or delete any Explorer registry keys and wouldn't have had to, thank goodness.
Thanks
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So unexpectedly my volume control is missing from the system tray on Windows 7. I goto the start menu and type volume and choose 'Show or hide volume (speaker) icon on the taskbar' and it's disabled in there and set to off. I then click 'customize notification icons' at the bottom and on the list that shows up, I see at the bottom 'Volume' with the dropbox icon over it.
Does dropbox obliterate my volume control on accident? Anyone else have anything like this? Got any other ideas for me to try?
forgot to mention: All the volume functions work, it's just the icon that's missing. I can control the volume by the keyboard or through the actual volume control (by pulling up the control panel widget). I just don't have the icon on the systemtray. All the rest of the system works tho.
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This can happen from time to time, but it is very rare and usually a restart will fix it.
The three solutions to try are (in order of convenience):
- Restart the Windows Audio service.
- open the Start menu
- right-click on Computer and select Manage
- navigate to 'Services and Applications' → Services
- right-click on Windows Audio and choose Restart
- Restart Explorer.exe.
- press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and select Task Manager
- go to the Processes tab and find explorer.exe
- right-click it and select 'End Process'. Make sure you do not have any file operations (copy/move etc.) going. Explorer should automatically restart.
- If it doesn't, then in Task Manager, go to File → 'New Task (Run...)', type in
explorer
, click OK and it should be back.
- Restart the computer.
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Go to control Panel, in that open
Notification Area Icons
In that window in the bottom side click on the
Turn System icons on or off
please select on
in the icon behaviour of volume, and click ok
....that's it
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Albin ThomasAlbin Thomas
I'm running Windows 7.I could not quickly find 'Notification Area' in Control Panel, so I simply typed in 'notification area' after clicking on the start button (lower left)Pick the first response,'Notification Area Icons'.
Choose 'turn system icons on or off'. You should be able to pick which ones to show. If the volume control is greyed out choose 'Restore default icon behaviours'.
Choose 'turn system icons on or off'. You should be able to pick which ones to show. If the volume control is greyed out choose 'Restore default icon behaviours'.
And finally restart your computer.
Reginald SmithReginald Smith
I came across this and since none of these solutions worked for me, I thought I'd share what did (from here):
- Back up the Registry by creating a restore point.
- Go to Start > Run (or Windows-key + R), type in
regedit
and hit OK. - Navigate to the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareClassesLocal SettingsSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionTrayNotify
. - Delete the values
IconStreams
andPastIconsStream
. - Open up the Task Manager (Ctrl + Shift + Esc), go to the Processes tab, select
explorer.exe
and click End Process. - Open the Applications tab and click New Task at the bottom-right of the window.
- In the message box that pops up type in
explorer.exe
and hit OK. Explorer.exe
will reload, and the missing icons should now be back in the system-tray where they belong.- Then if the volume bar isn't there, go to taskbar properties (where the volume was gray) and simply tick the box.
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arrrgharrrgh
Sorry to say, the patch I used is not compatible with Windows 7, but for your information, I have/had exactly the same problem with Windows XP. The problem has obviously carried over into Windows 7.
I came across this explanation for the XP problem:
this is caused by a timing defect in the Windows function Shell_NotifyIcon in shell32.dll, which has a timeout fixed at 4 seconds. Combined with an unfavorable Windows API message this causes the problem, which befalls many heavily loaded computers that don't have ultra-fast hard disks. Changing the timeout to one minute and removing the unwanted message solves the problem
The author provided a patch, which once installed, fixed the problem for me. Scroll to
Main problem and complete solution
section, which mentions:nars has posted a patcher tool (direct download link )that solves the problem even for future versions and makes patching very easy and quick. Thanks a lot, nars!
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For me, something had set the registry entry HideSCAVolume under:
I fixed it by removing this entry and restarting Windows Explorer.
Steven PennySteven Penny
I have taken this from the Official Microsoft forum, I used it on Windows 10 and it worked for me:
- Left click on windows icon and choose settings.
- Click on display tab.
- Change the size of text to 125% Then apply.
- DO NOT LOG OUT YET. Choose sign out later!
- Change the text size back to 100% and click apply.
- Now sign out and sign back in.
Your volume icon will be back.
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MazenMazen
I have windows 7 Professional and restarting the service as was enough.
I believe this problem because of installing ubuntu on top.
mic84I believe this problem because of installing ubuntu on top.
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GvidasGvidas
The easiest and quickest way to return the sound icon to the system tray is to restart the systray.exe process:
- Open up the task manager with CTRL + SHIFT + ESC.
- File > New Task (Run...)
- systray.exe
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