volume icon missing

[Guest]

In the last few months my volume icon does not load in the system tray most
of the time on boot up. I have it selected to show in the task bar
properties and the control panel. For the life of me I can't figure out how
to get this icon back. I have to bring up the Master Volume Panel to change
volume settings. This is a real pain most of the time, as all I want to do
is stop a web site from playing some anoying music or turn the volume back on
when I need it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rich Barry]

Tim, try rt clicking on Taskbar>select Properties>Customize>Under Current
Items-Volume rt click on Behavior and select
Always show.

 

[jopo]

Hi there Tim, Try this
There are many suggested fixes, but the only one that worked for me was
http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_013.html. Under the "Disable Universal Plug
and Play" fix I made the changes from MANUAL to AUTOMATIC in both cases.
Hoping that this is of assistance.
John

 

[Guest]

I just found out today after losing some of my tray icons, including the
volume icon, how to fix them all very easily.
Just "log off" and "log back on" and all your startup icons are restored. I
know, sounds too easy, but it works.

 

[Michael T]

You may also want to try this.

http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

scroll to line 329

 

[Michael T]

My mistake. I should have type line 320.