Volume Icon in system tray won't open after installing latest Windows10 updates

Anonymous
2017-08-13T13:51:04+00:00

since I installed the latest updates to windows 10, the volume icon in system tray no longer works.

The icon IS there in the system tray

hovering over the icon shows the volume level

HOWEVER, when I left click OR right click on the icon, NOTHING happens---it will not open so that I can adjust the volume level

Why do the Windows10 updates do more harm than good?

I routinely keep sound levels low until I want to listen to something---now 1 PC (Win10 home) is stuck on volume 20% and laptop ( Win10 Pro) stuck on volume 63%

How can I fix this?

THANKS

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Anonymous
2017-08-26T02:05:03+00:00

It's simple.

Open Task Manager and scroll to the bottom.

Right click Windows Explorer and then Restart.

Problem solved.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-05T15:00:06+00:00

    Jim, I'm glad I stumbled onto this discussion group. YES! The "restart" did the trick. This has happened with previous Windows updates (grrrr) and I do transcription, so I'm constantly needing to adjust the volume.

    Thanks very much for a simple solution. :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-12T20:44:48+00:00

    It's simple.

    Open Task Manager and scroll to the bottom.

    Right click Windows Explorer and then Restart.

    Problem solved.

    Hi Jim

    Well - I don't know how you stumbled across that issue, and how you managed to find out how it worked - but it does!!! Thanks muchly! Happy boy :-)

    To Microsoft - Can you please tell me why restarting Explorer works, when restarting the machine itself has no effect on this bug? It would be good to understand why an action that seems to have nothing to do with sound resolves the sound issue. Thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-22T13:24:33+00:00

    It's simple.

    Open Task Manager and scroll to the bottom.

    Right click Windows Explorer and then Restart.

    Problem solved.

    This fixed it the first time. Thank you for showing me this. Why won't people listen when you tell them how to fix something. You do have to keep scrolling until you get to Windows Explorer on the list. When you right click a menu of actions comes up. Click restart and it is fixed. Not even Microsoft knows this apparently.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-01-22T16:34:09+00:00

    Tok'ra kree!!

    Yes, I listened and I did it. It worked perfectly. 

    Thank you.

    Kind regards,

    Jolinar of MalkShur of the Tok'ra, avatar of Ileana Eliza Paunica, aka Crazy tarpan.

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