Windows Volume Control Disappeared? 1

[kjv1611]

When I was recently reformatting, etc, the new media PC for our church (sound/media room - audio/video recording), after a while, I noticed that the volume control next to the clock seemed to disappear. Originally it was there. Unfortunately, I cannot recall exactly when it disappeared.

For some background info:
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[li]Dell Inspiron 530 desktop with Intel Q6600 CPU[/li]
[li]Currently using Creative Labs Audigy 2 for sound card[/li]
[li]Disabled onboard sound in BIOS[/li]
[li]One strange thing, I thought, is during boot-up, before Windows, I'm getting a message something about "no ASIO BIOS drivers"[/li]
[/ul]

It does seem that the volume control may have gone away after installing the Audigy driver, but I just cannot remember for sure.

I thought I'd go into the Sounds management section in Windows to re-enable the control as in XP, but for the life of me, I couldn't find where the option is to "show volume control in task tray"

Thanks for any suggestions. I have Vista on a laptop at home, and I've worked on some Vista machines, but I've yet to see this one before this past weekend.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[kjv1611]

Just as an update for now, I may have found some possible solutions at the following links:

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/552531-volume-control-icon-system-tray.html

and

http://forums.techguy.org/windows-vista/593223-solved-system-tray-icons-disappear.html

I will hopefully get to test out some of those ideas either tonight or tomorrow night.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[linney]

Some good ideas in those links you supplied but the obvious thing to check first is to see what you have ticked under "Taskbar and Start Menu" Properties/ Notification Area/ System Icons.

 

[kjv1611]

Will look and see shortly. Thanks for the replies.


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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[kjv1611]

Well, it was the simple things on this one. All I had to do was check the taskbar properties, as you mentioned. I'm real glad!

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me