Vista: Enable Speaker Icon in Notification Area

Posted on Nov 26, 2007 under Windows Vista Tips |

How to enable the speaker icon to appear in the Notification Area or Systray next to the time.

1. Right-click on a blank area of the Taskbar and choose Properties.

2. Click the Notification Area tab.

3. Under System Icons, put a check in the box for Volume and click OK.

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4 Comments so far »

by John, on April 21 2008 @ 7:16 pm

Thank you very much for a very simple fix for what I thought was going to be a big problem to correct. Your solution to no speaker icon on my compputer was easy.

John
by dej, on April 29 2008 @ 9:59 am

Thanks a lot. I don’t like to have a speaker icon because I already have icon from sound card. Good tips.
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