Solved can't get volume icon back in sound tray even after following instruction

I have windows vista home premium 64 bit and have lost the volume icon in the system icon tray. I have tried the notification Area - Sytem Icons tutorial, method 4. In step 4 I click HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
All I have in the right hand pane is: (Default) REG_SZ value not set. Can comeone help me out. Thanks

Hello, and welcome to the Vista Forums!


Try this (large chunks copied from the Tutorial - thanks Brink! http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/106787-notification-area-system-icons.html)

• Navigate to that registry key
• In the right pane of Explorer, right click on a empty area and click on New and DWORD (32-bit) Value.
• Type HideSCAVolume and press Enter
• In the right pane, right click on the one you just typed to disable and click on Modify.
• Type 0 and click on OK. (See screenshots in tutorial if necessary)
• Restart your computer.
• Test and report back.

Thanks!

Richard

Richard

Thanks for the response. I did as you instructed, when I restarted I have no icon. I went to the regedit and in the right pane I have:
HideSCAVolume REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0). Any suggestions

Thanks
Ed

Have a look at Step 6 F) and G) here http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/106787-notification-area-system-icons.html to see if they need resetting as well. You will need to run the registry editor with administrative credentials for this.

Dwarf said:

Have a look at Step 6 F) and G) here http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/106787-notification-area-system-icons.html to see if they need resetting as well. You will need to run the registry editor with administrative credentials for this.

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Thanks so much Dwarf!

ejn45: Hopefully this will solve the problem! It would certainly make sense.

I deleted HideSCAVolume REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) in the registry and restsrted the computer and still have no volume icon, I do have a network icon and a clock.

ejn45 said:

I deleted HideSCAVolume REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) in the registry and restsrted the computer and still have no volume icon, I do have a network icon and a clock.

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but did you also delete it from: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

as Dwarf suggested?
Thanks!

I went back and did the following steps:
Went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
I right clicked on HideSCAVolume REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) and clicked delete then yes. I then restarted my computer, still no volume icon. Went back to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
HideSCAVolume REG_DWORD 0x00000000 (0) was gone. Am I doing something wrong?
Ed

OK. Try setting the values to 1 as though you want to hide the icon and then restart. Now delete the values as per the Tutorial. Sometimes, for unknown reasons, you need to toggle the values in order for your desired effect to stick.

I have my icon back. I right clicked on the tray and properties,notification area and checked volume. I tried this before but it would not let me ckeck this box.
Thank you for all the help I appreciate it.

Ed

You are most welcome, and I am glad that the problem is fixed!