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When you start your Windows Vista computer, the Volume Control icon may be missing from the Notification area. Also, in the Taskbar properties – Notification tab, the checkboxes for Clock, Volume and Network may remain grayed out.
Simply logging off and logging on to your user account helps in most cases, if this is not caused by a Policy setting. Alternately, you may try terminating and restarting Explorer.exe to see if that works. If that does not help (and your computer is not part of a domain), use the instructions below to unlock the Notification area icons.
Registry Fix
Download trayicons.reg and save to Desktop. Right-click on the file and choose Merge. Click Yes when prompted for confirmation.
Note that the previously mentioned REG file removes the following Registry-based Policy values in your system:
- HideSCAVolume
- HideSCANetwork
- HideClock
- HideSCAPower
Additionally, it clears the IconStreams & PastIconsStream values as suggested in Microsoft KB945011.
Important: After running the .REG file, you need to terminate and restart Explorer.exe for the change to take effect.
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Wow. Worked like a charm. Thanks a ton.
Followed instructions on my HP with Vista 64 Home Premium. Got my missing battery icon back into the notification area. Thanks a bunch!
Many thanks
@Mark: Fixed that!. Can you try downloading the file?
Trayicons.reg is saving as Trayicons.mp3!
Thanks for great tip. Second time this has happened.
Works fine now.
Cheers.
super!!! finallyyyyyyyyy!!!! My problem completely solved!
Thank’s alot!
Thank you very much for this. I think it was Tuneup utilities 2008 that screwed the systray icon up. Your reg-fix perfectly restored things to normal.
Thanks !
Henk, Gent, Belgium
Great! Worked perfectly!
Hi, i just did exactly what the instruction said and it still hasnt work for me. What do you suggest i should do?
Many Thanks!