My volume icon located in the notification area of the bottom tool bar, disappears mysteriously. When I notice it is gone a check of the task bar properties, shows it "grayed" out with no check mark. I must restart the PC in order to place the check , which restores the icon. Not a big deal but irritating. A forum search touched on this subject did not help. Any ideas on a permanent fix? OEM OS MS Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64 bit, PC HP m9457c. Incidentally, I have contacted HP support on other PC issues and found the service to be POOR.
Volume icon disappears periodically
- Thread starter Hokie56
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Hello Hokie,
It could be from a bad or corrupted audio driver. You might see if uninstalling and installing the latest driver version may help.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
It could be from a bad or corrupted audio driver. You might see if uninstalling and installing the latest driver version may help.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
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My volume icon was disabled, the box was greyed out when I went into notifications on the taskbar.
For some reason,,,, I got the volume icon back by going into the taskbar and selecting "start up menu" ( I was in classic mode) I then went in again and switch back to classic mode and the icon was back.
So, right click task bar, click properties, click start menu, there are 2 radio buttons (classic start menu), and, (start menu). I was in classic, I clicked, start-menu, looked at the view in the, start menu, then, repeated the process and clicked - right click properties on the task bar, click start menu, checked the radio button for classic menu. The volume icon reappared.
While I was in "start menu" view, I did click on a few icons, (ease of access) was one of them. I think a previous reply mentioned the ease of access icon, and perhaps some of the sub icons under it.
I am not sure which part of the entire process retrieved the volume icon but I am glad its back
For some reason,,,, I got the volume icon back by going into the taskbar and selecting "start up menu" ( I was in classic mode) I then went in again and switch back to classic mode and the icon was back.
So, right click task bar, click properties, click start menu, there are 2 radio buttons (classic start menu), and, (start menu). I was in classic, I clicked, start-menu, looked at the view in the, start menu, then, repeated the process and clicked - right click properties on the task bar, click start menu, checked the radio button for classic menu. The volume icon reappared.
While I was in "start menu" view, I did click on a few icons, (ease of access) was one of them. I think a previous reply mentioned the ease of access icon, and perhaps some of the sub icons under it.
I am not sure which part of the entire process retrieved the volume icon but I am glad its back