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Sound Icon disappearing from notification area
I have XP Pro, stand alone used at home, DSL and PC not
shared. I have installed various programs within the last six months and at one point, the speaker icon in the notification area has disappeared. I need to use that speaker icon to raise or lower the volume of the sound files I need to listen to. 1. I don't have the 'hide inactive icons' settings active. 2. My default setting is to "Place Icon Volume in the Task Bar" 3. I have to get the icon back after each re-start by going to the control panel and selecting it off, then selecting it on again. That is the only way I can restore the icon and it is a royal pain in the butt. Does anyone know if there are ways I can have my Sound Icon appear on the boot without going through the settings, and without using a lot of system resources? I did a little research on this problem, and found a site that had a small program that restored the icon back to the notification area, but my system crawled to an average of 90 CPU usage, compared to about 15% before I installed the program. Good thing that XP provides a restore point. I'm an MCP in XP Pro and know that it is probably an IRQ problem, but I'm at a loss as to how to resolve it. Please help. Thanks |
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Sound Icon disappearing from notification area
Check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Select V
and scroll to Volume control. "PRNCE" wrote in message ... I have XP Pro, stand alone used at home, DSL and PC not shared. I have installed various programs within the last six months and at one point, the speaker icon in the notification area has disappeared. I need to use that speaker icon to raise or lower the volume of the sound files I need to listen to. 1. I don't have the 'hide inactive icons' settings active. 2. My default setting is to "Place Icon Volume in the Task Bar" 3. I have to get the icon back after each re-start by going to the control panel and selecting it off, then selecting it on again. That is the only way I can restore the icon and it is a royal pain in the butt. Does anyone know if there are ways I can have my Sound Icon appear on the boot without going through the settings, and without using a lot of system resources? I did a little research on this problem, and found a site that had a small program that restored the icon back to the notification area, but my system crawled to an average of 90 CPU usage, compared to about 15% before I installed the program. Good thing that XP provides a restore point. I'm an MCP in XP Pro and know that it is probably an IRQ problem, but I'm at a loss as to how to resolve it. Please help. Thanks |
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Sound Icon disappearing from notification area
Check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Select V
and scroll to Volume control. "PRNCE" wrote in message ... I have XP Pro, stand alone used at home, DSL and PC not shared. I have installed various programs within the last six months and at one point, the speaker icon in the notification area has disappeared. I need to use that speaker icon to raise or lower the volume of the sound files I need to listen to. 1. I don't have the 'hide inactive icons' settings active. 2. My default setting is to "Place Icon Volume in the Task Bar" 3. I have to get the icon back after each re-start by going to the control panel and selecting it off, then selecting it on again. That is the only way I can restore the icon and it is a royal pain in the butt. Does anyone know if there are ways I can have my Sound Icon appear on the boot without going through the settings, and without using a lot of system resources? I did a little research on this problem, and found a site that had a small program that restored the icon back to the notification area, but my system crawled to an average of 90 CPU usage, compared to about 15% before I installed the program. Good thing that XP provides a restore point. I'm an MCP in XP Pro and know that it is probably an IRQ problem, but I'm at a loss as to how to resolve it. Please help. Thanks |
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Sound Icon disappearing from notification area
Check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Select V
and scroll to Volume control. "PRNCE" wrote in message ... I have XP Pro, stand alone used at home, DSL and PC not shared. I have installed various programs within the last six months and at one point, the speaker icon in the notification area has disappeared. I need to use that speaker icon to raise or lower the volume of the sound files I need to listen to. 1. I don't have the 'hide inactive icons' settings active. 2. My default setting is to "Place Icon Volume in the Task Bar" 3. I have to get the icon back after each re-start by going to the control panel and selecting it off, then selecting it on again. That is the only way I can restore the icon and it is a royal pain in the butt. Does anyone know if there are ways I can have my Sound Icon appear on the boot without going through the settings, and without using a lot of system resources? I did a little research on this problem, and found a site that had a small program that restored the icon back to the notification area, but my system crawled to an average of 90 CPU usage, compared to about 15% before I installed the program. Good thing that XP provides a restore point. I'm an MCP in XP Pro and know that it is probably an IRQ problem, but I'm at a loss as to how to resolve it. Please help. Thanks |
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Sound Icon disappearing from notification area
Check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm Select V
and scroll to Volume control. "PRNCE" wrote in message ... I have XP Pro, stand alone used at home, DSL and PC not shared. I have installed various programs within the last six months and at one point, the speaker icon in the notification area has disappeared. I need to use that speaker icon to raise or lower the volume of the sound files I need to listen to. 1. I don't have the 'hide inactive icons' settings active. 2. My default setting is to "Place Icon Volume in the Task Bar" 3. I have to get the icon back after each re-start by going to the control panel and selecting it off, then selecting it on again. That is the only way I can restore the icon and it is a royal pain in the butt. Does anyone know if there are ways I can have my Sound Icon appear on the boot without going through the settings, and without using a lot of system resources? I did a little research on this problem, and found a site that had a small program that restored the icon back to the notification area, but my system crawled to an average of 90 CPU usage, compared to about 15% before I installed the program. Good thing that XP provides a restore point. I'm an MCP in XP Pro and know that it is probably an IRQ problem, but I'm at a loss as to how to resolve it. Please help. Thanks |
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