Speaker Volume Control "Disappeared" from my Laptop

[JoLin]

Toshiba Satellite C55-A running Win 8.1. The volume control on the lower right toolbar just isn't there anymore. I have the Internet Access/Signal Strength icon and the batter state of charge charge icon. I noticed it was gone yesterday but have no idea what happened to it. I've searched through the Control Panel and MS System Tools but can't find anything related to the internal speaker or volume control. Any of you know ?

 

[jbuote]

One thing to try, is if you right click in the notification area (near the clock), and select "Properties", I think it brings you to "Turn system icons on or off"
Make sure the speaker/volume control is switched to "On" if it's off.

If right clicking and properties doesn't get you there, it's in Control Panel -> All Control Panel Items -> Notification Area Icons -> System Icons

If that doesn't work, or it's already on but still not visible, or the rare case it's greyed out, you can try to "Reset default icon behaviors" at the bottom of System Icons..

Let me know if that works..

 

[JoLin]

After searching around, I found the "Turn System Icons on or off". The volume icon was 'off', but it's grayed out- no option to toggle it on. I then chose the 'reset default icons" option. That put a bunch of them on the toolbar, but not the volume control.

I finally remembered the device manager, and reloaded the generic driver for the speaker. Back to the 'turn icons on and off" option. Volume is still grayed out.

UPDATE: Reloading the driver did the trick. Just had to reboot the laptop, and the volume control reappeared in the toolbar.

Thanks for the tips! I learned something new about toggling the icons on and off, and your post kicked my brain back in gear.

 

[jbuote]

LOL!!
Well glad it helped even if not the solution..


I like a phrase I heard many moons ago when I started my software career...

"To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer."::laugh:

 

[JoLin]

I've been playing with these danged things since my VIC-20 with a tape drive, a daisy-wheel printer and a typed-in word processor. After all these years, they still screw up. I pine for the days of DOS 2.11, which may be the last OS I really, really understood. Need to automate a task? Write a simple batch program... :facepalm:

My .02

 

[jbuote]

Oh yeah.. I remember those..
Batch programs are still useful for me, but it's less and less these days... (sigh...)
TRS-80 model 1 was my first..
BASIC First language.. hehe..

10 FOR X = 1 TO 10
20 PRINT "Have you checked compression? Spark? Fresh Fuel?"
30 NEXT X
RUN

ound:

 

[BWR1953]

The only thing I ever programmed was hexadecimal. And I remember the answer!

01FA :lol:

 

[garbageguy]

Fortran 77 anyone?

 

[JoLin]

There are times I think I'm the oldest fart I know... so I come here to feel better...

 

[MTboatguy]

I started out on an Atari Game console using Atari machine language, we thought we had the world by the tail when we finally got a cartridge to load basic in that machine and start writing code.