Youtube volume fluctuation, systray volume icon greyed out in settings

As has occurred occasionally in the past, lately my Youtube volume is going up and down by itself. Some possible fixes I ran across involved the use of the systray volume icon, but it's missing from the systray and greyed out in the settings.

I use a portable version of the Volume² - advanced Windows volume control volume manager (great app, btw). As far as I remember, they have previously both co-existed in the systray without issue. I'm just speculating that perhaps it is somehow responsible for the disabled default volume icon.

I closed Volume², but it had no effect on the status of the default volume icon.

Volume² has a couple of related options:



Ensure these are not set.

There are also options which might lead to volume changes e.g.


when you use it.


Otherwise try running the audio troubleshooter for starters.

If you care to search for e.g.
volume setting greyed out

you will find numerous reports and possible solutions. E.g.
How do I turn the system icon for sound on (currently off; greyed out)
System icons greyed out

The troubleshooter didn't help. My action center is active.

Since those links are for Win 7/8 do you think that batch file is safe to run?

Maybe the easiest thing to do is restore with Macrium.

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dalchina said:

Volume² has a couple of related options:
you will find numerous reports and possible solutions. E.g.
How do I turn the system icon for sound on (currently off; greyed out)
System icons greyed out

Brinks reg file did the fix. So simple, just change the value to zero, and reboot

From this

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"HideSCAVolume"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"HideSCAVolume"=-

to this

Code:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"HideSCAVolume"=-

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]
"HideSCAVolume"=-

Thanks for everything!