Missing Volume tray icon in Windows Vista

Some users of Windows Vista were surprised to discover that, for some reason, still undiscovered, icon Volume from System trayThat the last use of the PC was in place, disappeared without a trace.

volumeicon

How to "traditional" restoration, ie through Taskbar and Start Menu PropertiesHas no effect in this case, the solution you registry (Before applying this method to restore the tray icons is advisable to perform a backup of the registry, Just in case).

taskbar properties

Here's what to do for the icon Sound & Volume to reappear in system tray:

- Open registry Editor (Go to Home and type regedit in Instant Search);

- in the menu Edit select Find, type IconStreams and click on OK. Within seconds two results will appear on the right side of the screen, IconStreams si PastIconStreams. Right click on each of them and then Delete.

IconStreams

A way to get faster TrayNotify by Windows Explore is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Classes \ Local Settings\ Software \ Microsoft \Windows\ CurrentVersion \ TrayNotify

After deleting the two entries in TrayNotify is required restart of the system, then you will notice that the Volume icon will be in place in system tray. If this does not happen, go to Start Menu Properties-> Notification Area and select the icons you want to have in the tray (this time it will work;)).

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