Windows System Tray (Notification Area) is located in the lower right hand corner of your screen, down by your clock. It show things like your anti-virus program, firewall, volume control icon, and others, depending on your configuration. The System Tray will "hide" icons you aren't using from time to time, or just ones that don't "register" as being used. But sometimes you may want to see them anyway! You can keep them all from hiding with a little setup
Step 1 Right Click the lower right hand corner of your system tray as shown in the image below.
Step 2 Choose Properties from the drop down menu that appears, as shown below:
Step 3 The following window will open. Click Taskbar tab. If you want all the icons to show all the time, Uncheck the Hide inactive Icons button. If you want to pick and choose which to hide/unhide, then choose Customize.
Step 4 The window that appears will look like the one below. Find "Volume" in the list, click it once, then click the little blue arrow next to it to open the drop down menu of choices, and choose "Always Show". Now click OK
Step 5 You are all done! You can use the same steps listed here to change the behavior of other icons in your System Tray too!
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Susan Snyder
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