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Old 09-09-2008   #1 (permalink)
Buddha
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Network Icon and Volume Control disappeared from tray

My network activity icon suddenly vanished from the notification area. So
did the Volume Control. R-Clicking on the Taskbar and going to
properties/notification area shows check boxes for both, but both are grayed
out. No changes have been made to the system. At reboot, the 2 items were
just gone.

Any ideas?

Buddha


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Old 09-09-2008   #2 (permalink)
leap frog vista
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Re: Network Icon and Volume Control disappeared from tray

do a system restore to a point before this happened...


vista is full of strange bugs

"Buddha" <TEPonta@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My network activity icon suddenly vanished from the notification area. So
> did the Volume Control. R-Clicking on the Taskbar and going to
> properties/notification area shows check boxes for both, but both are
> grayed
> out. No changes have been made to the system. At reboot, the 2 items
> were
> just gone.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Buddha
>
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Old 09-09-2008   #3 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Windows 7 RC x64 Vista HP x86
 
 

Re: Network Icon and Volume Control disappeared from tray

Before you do a system restore just check the status on the taskbar properties in safe mode there are options on the notification area tab to not display these items
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Old 09-09-2008   #4 (permalink)
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: Network Icon and Volume Control disappeared from tray

Hello Buddha,

This tutorial may be able to help you fix this problem.

Notification Area - System Icons

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by Buddha View Post
My network activity icon suddenly vanished from the notification area. So
did the Volume Control. R-Clicking on the Taskbar and going to
properties/notification area shows check boxes for both, but both are grayed
out. No changes have been made to the system. At reboot, the 2 items were
just gone.

Any ideas?

Buddha
My System SpecsSystem Spec
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