Displaying volume control icon on taskbar in XP Pro

Serdar Yegulalp

Published: 30 Sep 2003

I recently upgraded workstations on my network from Windows 2000 Professional to XP Professional. After doing so, users complained that they missed having the volume icon, which appears on the taskbar in earlier versions of Windows. Is there any way to add this icon to the toolbar in XP?

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