Dear Cliff, I don't have the speaker in my sys tray, why would anyone want that? it takes longer to boot the more you have in the sys tray, all I have is my anti virus program starting there (if anyone has zone alarm this should be there too) As I said earlier if you put you volume control short cut into you task bar, this can be used to access you vol controls anytime, it does the same thing. This is just my opinion for what it's worth. Anyone have any opinions against this? I could be persuaded otherwise, and if Cliff is using XP, I know nothing of this OS. Billy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Messner" <cliffmessner@xxxxxxx> To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 4:12 PM Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Sound and my redundant post > To all that offered suggestions for my sound problem, eureka! After placing > the "speaker" icon in my system tray, I was able to right-click the speaker, > choosing "open volume controls" option. Sure enough, there was a box checked > to mute all! Thanks to you all for your help! > > Signed, > > Grateful Cliff > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Louis M Hall" <lhall1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:57 AM > Subject: [pchelpers] Re: Sound and my redundant post > > > > Cliff, > > > > This is with XP. > > > > Start/ Control Panel/Sounds&Audio Devices/ Audio Devices. XP opened with > the > > Volume Tab.It has two check boxes, one for mute, the other for "Place > Volume > > Icon on Task Bar" On this same panel, there is a button, "Advanced". Click > > it and I find "mute" and "volume" for Playback, Wave/MP3, CD Audio, Midi, > > Microphone and Line-In. > > Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.