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    Battery Icon and Volume Speaker missing from system tray

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by lilredfoxie, May 28, 2006.

  1. lilredfoxie

    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    Sometimes when I boot up to windows, the Volume Icon and the Battery/Power Plug icon is missing from the system tray, i checked the settings and they are set to show up but yet they go missing
     
    lilredfoxie, May 28, 2006
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    Is Quickset installed?
     
    nickspohn, May 28, 2006
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  3. lilredfoxie

    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    yea it is installed, i personally dont like that program, i think the windows power management thing is much better, i only keep it on so the media buttons work
     
    lilredfoxie, May 28, 2006
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    j4y_7 Notebook Consultant

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    Just to double check,

    Volume Icon:
    Control Panel -> Sound And Audio Devices -> Place Volume Icon In The Taskbar

    Power Icon
    Control Panel -> Power Options -> Advanced -> Always Show Icon On The Taskbar

    Both are checked?
     
    j4y_7, May 28, 2006
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    aznwild0 Newbie

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    You are most likely running Windows XP and you use the welcome screen function when you log in. The only way I know to fix this is to use the NT style screen. No simple work-arounds, sorry.

    To switch to the NT style login screen, go to Control Panel, then the User Accounts settings. Click on 'choose ther way users log on/off' and uncheck the top box on the next screen, the one labeled 'use the welcome screen'

    And voila, that should fix your problems. You will notice that hitting ctrl-alt-del will bring up a different screen you may be used to seeing, the NT style screen. Personally, I find the "Lock Workstation" button indispensible; locking the computer takes only half a second.

    Yes, you'll do away with the Welcome Screen but I never really liked it anyways, it's just clunky user interface on top of the NT login screen.

    Cheers
     
    aznwild0, May 28, 2006
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  6. lilredfoxie

    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    j4y_7, I have the integrated audigy sound which has a totally different speaker icon, and volume control applet from creative, and its checked as well as the power one,

    aznwild0 I have neither since I only have one user account it just goes right to windows
     
    lilredfoxie, May 28, 2006
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  7. Amber

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    for the volume control, you need to start one of the creative applications. If you disable any of the creative applications in MSCONFIG, then your volume control would be missing.
     
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  8. lilredfoxie

    lilredfoxie Notebook Evangelist

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    it may have been an error but now everythings loading up fine, i did something with quickset in the msconfig.exe and now it loads up and doesnt impede the volume nad battery icons
     
    lilredfoxie, May 28, 2006
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