Thanks for coming back with your solution. I will file it away (where I will
promptly forget it )
Who was your vender support, they should get a little credit! So much
discourse about venders support is 'how bad it is'.

Michael


"churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
news:OK5TcjbOIHA.2376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> I contacted vendor's techsupport. He could not explain why. I let him
> examine my PC through remote access session. He was doing what I had done
> and he could not tell why those are grayed. Then he switched the UI from
> Classic to the default UI, and those two icons all of a sudden showed up
> on the system tray. I reverted the UI back to the Classic and the icons
> fortunately stayed on. He was saying he switched the UI because the
> default UI is more convenient for him to use not because he suspected the
> Classic UI.
> The problem must be a bug related to the Classic UI. The first thing I did
> with this PC was to switch the UI to the Classic but if I configured the
> network and checked the sound system before switching the UI, then I would
> not have this problem.
> Thank you anyway for trying to help me.
>
> Michael Walraven wrote:
>> Sorry, can't help. Never happened to me so have no idea why they would be
>> grayed out.
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> "churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
>> news:uR6w7WaOIHA.5140@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>> Michael;
>>>
>>> Thanks for your response.
>>> I followed your suggestion and saw 'Volume' and 'Network' under System
>>> Icons. But both are grayed so I could not add check marks. What could be
>>> wrong?
>>>
>>> PS: Network icon is also not shown on the system tray.
>>>
>>> Churin
>>>
>>> Michael Walraven wrote:
>>>> Right click in the taskbar area
>>>> select properties
>>>> notification area tab
>>>> system icons
>>>> should have a box to select for Volume
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "churin" <churin@new.postalias> wrote in message
>>>> news:u1uSQDSOIHA.1168@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Speaker icon for volume control is missing from the system tray. This
>>>>> is with a brand new notebook PC I just bought. Otherwise, audio is
>>>>> working just fine. Could anyone help?
>>>>