Missing volume control in Notification area ***

[Jasonholt]

I have installed windows vista recently and every thing was working great till yestarday. Today i found that Volume control is missing from lower right notification area. I have checked out in Taskbar & Start Menu > Properties > Notification Area but there is no option for highlighting Volume box. I dont remember changes that might have been made in my system as same system is used by my family members as well.

[anshusehgal]

Try out below solution and see if you are getting it back.

• First Back up your Registry by creating a restore point then Go to Start > Run, type "regedit" without quotes and click on OK.
• Once you get new window opened check out for HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify and delete the values IconStreams and PastIconsStream.
• Once you have done that open Task Manager > go to Processes tab > select explorer.exe and kill it by clicking on End Process.
• Now open Applications tab > click on "New Task" type explorer.exe in message box that pops up and click on OK.
• Explorer.exe should now get reloaded and y should get all missing icons in system-tray
• If at all you dont see volume bar then go to task-bar properties and checkmark it from there, just make sure that you are saving the changes before exiting window.

[tmeistergeneral]

i have the same problem.
the volume network and power icons are missing. i have tried using the registry editor and even a microsoft fix-it program but the icons tick boxes remain greyed out and they do not appear in "HIDE INACTIVE ICONS" either. any ideas?