Comments on: Sound or volume tray icon missing in Windows Vista?

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:49:17 +0000

Nina & Jenny’s comments worked great. The volume icon did not reappear immediately, but I opened the Properties task bar (place cursor over blank area of task bar, right click, “Properties”, “Notification Area” tab, check the box next to “Volume” which should no longer be ghosted) and re-checked the “Volume” box.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 10:53:30 +0000

Great. It works. Thank you!

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:59:13 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you Aseem. After following your very clear instructions and a reboot. I was finally able to go back into the taskbar start menu properties notification area and click on the volume and Network system icons to enable them again. Thanks also for putting in the whole address to locate the icon stream as I didn't have success using just the 'find' keys. I have searched for quite a few hours to find a solution to this problem on the net before finding your site, and most others only mentioned clicking on the volume and network system icons ……that would be easy if they weren't already grayed out, and the only other solution they gave was to unlock the toolbar (which of course was already unlocked)! Thanks for making it so easy for even a novice user such as myself to fix the issue.

By: Dhin

Dhin — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:28:38 +0000

worked fine with vista – spend nearly 2 hrs before getting this search page. Thanks, -12-21-11

By: ABRIN

ABRIN — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:52:56 +0000

Simpler Solution: Open task manager, under Processes select explorer.exe, then click End Process. CLick On the Applications Tab, click on New Task and type explorer. Missing Icons (sound/network) will appear again :-) (No hacking registry and no rebooting)