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.
Best Answer
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.
Restart Explorer.exe.
explorer
, click OK and it should be back.Restart the computer.