It's God's punishment for using Windows. And equally to those klods trying to copy one disk to another in that other thread. Doesn't Windows come with *any* useful software?
If so, first establish if the sound is still working at all - an updated sound card driver that has broken the system sound may cause the control to be removed. Check device manager[1] is not listing any of the sound components with a yellow error triangle.
[1] type devmgmt.msc in the search box on the start button (or any number of other ways of launching it)
If the sound system is working ok, then try the following:
You can enable and disable the on/off switches with group policy settings. Depending on which version of windows you have you may or may not have the group policy editor (type gpedit.msc in the search box at the bottom of the start menu and hit enter to find out).
Then see:
formatting link
Option 1, step 4.
If you have not got the policy editor (home versions of win7 may not), then download the .reg file they include in Option 2, step 9. And double click that.
On Friday, 27 February 2015 21:55:25 UTC, The Medway Handyman uses:
Giving ideas to a Windows user is like selling explosives to idiots. It should be self destructive but it isn't. I presume that the imbeciles have achieved critical mass?
Windows is easier to use. That doesn't mean the user is an idiot. Just like people who drive automatics aren't necessarily incapable of driving manuals (like me), I just prefer them to do it themselves, less for me to do.
Under control panel, devices, sound controllers, do you have any audio device(s) shown? Do you have any yellow question marks or exclamation marks instead?
Not got access to Windows 7 at the moment, but do you have a small triangle towards the right-hand end of the task bar? If you do, left-click it and click on 'Customise'. Within the window that opens you should find an entry for 'Volume'. Click on the drop-down and select 'Show icon and notification'.
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