Volume icon greyed out windows xp

Normally you can re-enable the items by right-clicking on the Taskbar, choosing properties and going to the Notification Area tab:.

You can solve all of these problems by looking in two separate places in the registry, and then deleting a bunch of keys in each location. Open up regedit. Over the last year, many people have reported a related problem to me: They just have no volume icon… and also no sound. If you still have problems, head over to our forum and ask your question over there.

Important Note: Numerous people have reported to me that this problem happens much less after installing Service Pack 1, so you should probably make sure you are all patched up as well. Use Google Fonts in Word.

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Is there any possible way to turn on the speaker icon? I know Windows XP is already dead, but I still need it for some of my programs I like to use and works much better than W7. Trusted Advisor. Joined May 12, Messages 84, TerryNet Terry. Joined Mar 23, Messages 81, The Sound driver is installed? No warnings or errors in Device Manager? It has no audio driver listed for Windows XP. Joined Jun 1, Messages Not to make light of this, but I found no way to make the icon show up reliably or disappear One thing it seems I can count on is that it will show up when I don't want it to no matter what.

At least it used to be a little bit convenient for it to be there sometimes by surprise. On the plus side Volume2 is a great program for any version of Windows Screenshot is my favorite skin, because it shows when a USB has been inserted or removed and it says muted on the skin when the system is muted. I have it set up so that I mouse to the bottom and scroll wheel the volume, but there are numerous ways to set up the program. The level indicator can be placed anywhere on the screen too and the number of volume steps per mouse scroll can be set By the way, notice the XP volume icon in the bottom right corner of the screenshot below AtlBo said:.

No, that's Rainmeter on Windows XP. It does look a little bit like Windows 8. I turned off the desktop icons, because I don't need them using Rainmeter Volume2 is an enhanced volume control program. It works like the XP one, but it always shows up in the tray, and it has many nice features for controlling the volume that add for me to the experience of using a PC over long stretches Thanks AtlBo, I will give volume2 a try later on today. I think I will have to quit with the XP part.

I tried everything possible but still unable to install the audio driver icon. I will try to find an adequate laptop with windows XP just to edit my movies and to do some minor tasks with the older programs I have. I don't plan to use the internet with Windows XP at all.

Thanks for all your help and support. The only other option that I can think of is to install a sound card that supports Windows XP and Windows 7. The speaker icon is contained in your XP installation unless something went wrong with the installation.

There is a setting that you use to control whether it appears in the system tray here maybe you already tried this? Make sure there is a check in the check box.

I have battled this problem for a couple days, and with Andaaagaaalaaagaaa's process, I now have the speaker on my user's computer. I had tried many others, to no avail, but once I did his, then went into the sounds and devices, it let me put a check to place volume icon on the taskbar. Thank you, this advice saved me hours of time, I have already spent days trying to figure this out! Thank you for posting your solution to help others.

This will add a warning in red letters, but I am willing to risk it to have my sounds working correctly again. This solves the lost volume control icon and fixed my main issue of I lost my default beep, it was replaced with the system beep. Threats include any threat of suicide, violence, or harm to another. Any content of an adult theme or inappropriate to a community web site. Any image, link, or discussion of nudity. Any behavior that is insulting, rude, vulgar, desecrating, or showing disrespect.

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