Volume Icon will not stay in notification area

[Brandy]

Hi Everyone, this is a long and very difficult problem, I have tried everyone's suggestions and still the Volume Icon is never in the NA after a reboot, it always appears after going to control panel, opening Sound and Audio devices and removing the check mark, clicking apply, replacing the check mark and again clicking the apply.

Would a Windows repair or reinstall help?  I don't want to loose all my present information, but a reinstall would also give me the opportunity to enable AHCI, which I need so my external SATA backup drive can be recognized without having to turn it on and reboot, which is what I have to do now.

Thanks for any help.

Jim

[Broni]

XP?

Go Start>Run ("Start Search" in Vista), type in:
sfc /scannow
Click OK (hit Enter in Vista).
Have Windows CD/DVD handy.
If System File Checker (sfc) will find any errors, it may ask you for the CD/DVD.
If sfc won't find any errors in Windows XP, it'll simply quit, without any message.

[hiloed]

 
Go here for help.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/01/04/system-tray-icon-missing-from-system-tray-in-windows-xp

I  went to my network places and disabled the show icons for networked UPnP devices as suggested and that worked for me. I can always enable it if necessary but never needed to so far. Icon problem solved for me since the change.

Good Luck