I have a question about Getting Rid of the Little Yellow Speaker in the Tray:

I have win2k pro and the audio/playback tab doesn't have a taskbar option.Has anyone else had this problem?Cheers

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Start > Contorl Panel > sounds and Multimedia > 'Show volume control on the task bar'


On Friday, November 9, 2001 at 8:44 pm, Bigalow wrote:
>I have a question about Getting
>Rid of the Little Yellow Speaker in the Tray:

>
>I have win2k pro and the audio/playback tab doesn't have a taskbar option.Has anyone
>else had this problem?Cheers

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I have USB speakers and this option is greyed out. If a sound card is installed this option works.


On Saturday, November 10, 2001 at 2:42 am, Lee Weedon wrote:
>Start > Contorl Panel > sounds and Multimedia > 'Show volume control on the task
>bar'
>

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Make sure that you have your motherboard chipset
disk/CD.  Then run it.  If you have a built-in sound
card or something that plugs in the USB slot, then
you would need the driver that comes with the
motherboard or other device.  It wouldn't hurt to
go to System in the Control Panel and take a look
at the devices.  You can look and see if there are
any entries flagged as having problems.  Multiple
installations, IRQ conflicts, and missing drivers can
cause problems here.  Another place to check would
be "Install New Hardware."  You can run that and
see if Windows finds anything else.






On Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 11:04 pm, john wrote:
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>I have USB speakers and this option is greyed out.
>If a sound card is installed this option works.

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No, it's not these. Everything is fine. I'm sure it's something in Windows. When I took out the CL LIve sound card the checkbox became greyed. The speakers are plugged into the m/b usb slot. I tried putting the sound card back and the checkbox was usable again.


On Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 4:16 pm, Courtney wrote:

>Make sure that you have your motherboard chipset
>disk/CD.  Then run it.  If you have a built-in sound
>card or something that plugs in the USB slot, then
>you would need the driver that comes with the
>motherboard or other device.  It wouldn't hurt to
>go to System in the Control Panel and take a look
>at the devices.  You can look and see if there are
>any entries flagged as having problems.  Multiple
>installations, IRQ conflicts, and missing drivers can
>cause problems here.  Another place to check would
>be "Install New Hardware."  You can run that and
>see if Windows finds anything else.
>
>

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If you "hover"(Or right click?) over the "grayed out" "Show volume control on taskbar" checkmark, then click on the "what's this?" Windows tells you that it's "grayed out" because Windows volume control doesn't work with your particular system(Which is probably fine). Unfortunately, Windows doesn't tell you why then, the "Speaker Icon" is still showing...? Nor how to get rid of it...


On Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 4:44 pm, john wrote:
>No, it's not these. Everything is fine. I'm sure it's something in Windows.
>When I took out the CL LIve sound card the checkbox became greyed. The speakers are
>plugged into the m/b usb slot.
>I tried putting the sound card back and the checkbox was usable again.
>
>

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You'd want to make sure that you have the device driver to the USB speakers. If this is part of the motherboard, then you'd want to make sure the built-in sound is enabled in CMOS. Windows cannot control what it cannot find.


On Thursday, July 11, 2002 at 4:44 pm, john wrote:
>No, it's not these. Everything is fine. I'm sure it's something in Windows.
>When I took out the CL LIve sound card the checkbox became greyed. The speakers are
>plugged into the m/b usb slot.
>I tried putting the sound card back and the checkbox was usable again.
>
>

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