Comments on: How to recover the volume or sound icon to your Windows taskbar

By: calvin

calvin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:02:58 +0000

wow. I was going crazy looking for the fix to my volume and network connection status icon for the longest time. I thought i had deleted it or something, but your tip on just going to control panel, sound and audio devices and checking the toolbar, man do i feel stupid! thanks bro, once I did that they both appeared. good tip!

By: ayas

ayas — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:41:42 +0000

Hi,

I have a DELL latitude 520 model laptop loaded with Windows XP (SP3). My sound is working perfectly but the icon is not displaying on the task bar. also when the windows starts up i couldn’t hear the defualt start-up sound.the play button for the default sound in Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices Properties > Sounds is greyed out. Please suggest how i will fix this. I have already tried to fix this problem by re-installing the driver but its not working…

By: Felicity

Felicity — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:54:18 +0000

Thank you sooooo much. I obviously unticked that when muting at some point. It has been annoying me for ages and people posted some ridiculous answers, when you have clearly shown all it takes is a tick in the box to get the volume icon back!

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:33:40 +0000

I went through the steps from Control Panel to Sounds and Audio Devices. The same screen comes up that you show in the instructions , however, it is grayed out and I can’t check or uncheck anything.

Thanks.
Tim

By: Jaz

Jaz — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:35:57 +0000

The audio icon is missing from my taskbar and I have no sound. Plz help

By: Louise Ivey

Louise Ivey — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:27:11 +0000

I too am missing the sound icon on my taskbar, but as I purchased my computer used online, I do not have a CD.
Any other solutions?

By: Linnea Hendrickson

Linnea Hendrickson — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:27:36 +0000

Thank you! Your solution of unchecking the “show sound” icon, clicking apply, then going back and checking the box again and clicking O.K. worked perfectly, after I’d looked at half a dozen other suggestions on other sites and tried the Microsoft help with no success. Not having the sound icon in the task bar has been driving me nuts for months!

By: Papa G

Papa G — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:18:01 +0000

Glrajesh,

I have done as you suggested however I get an error message
Can’t open input file: sndvol32.ex_C:\windows\system32.

How can I resolve this please.

By: James

James — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:59:36 +0000

My volume icon was missing (among other things), and this actually brought all the missing icons back. Thanks!

By: Control speaker volume on your PC by scrolling mouse wheel

Control speaker volume on your PC by scrolling mouse wheel — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:22:18 +0000

[...] built onto the chassis near the keyboard so you don’t have to click on the sound icon in Windows (sound icon missing from TaskBar?). However, it’s still a button and it would be much nicer if you could control the sound volume [...]

By: Randy

Randy — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:26:48 +0000

Thanks for the tip on restoring the volume icon to the taskbar. I am remarkably computer illiterate and was hugely relieved that your simple solution worked. Thanks again.

By: Rajesh G L

Rajesh G L — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:57 +0000

you need to copy the sndvol32.exe image from your commercial XP installation media (not a vendor-supplied “recovery” CD-ROM) to the system32 folder by performing the following steps:
put winxp cd in the cd rom

Start a command session. click start- run
type command

Navigate to the CD-ROM drive by typing
:
Navigate to the i386 folder by typing
cd i386
Expand the sndvol32.ex_ file by typing
expand -r sndvol32.ex_ %systemroot%\system32

if u done successfully… say thkx to glrajesh@yahoo.com