Why did the volume control icon disappear from my taskbar notification area in Windows XP?

To display the volume icon in the taskbar notification area, you must select the "Place volume icon in the taskbar" check box in Control Panel Sounds and Audio Devices applet. If, when you try to select this check box, you receive the error

Error
Windows cannot display the volume control on the taskbar
because the Volume Controlprogram has not been installed.
To install it, use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel.

you need to copy the sndvol32.exe image from your commercial XP installation media (not a vendor-supplied "recovery" CD-ROM) to the system32 folder by performing the following steps:

1. Start a command session.
2. Navigate to the CD-ROM drive by typing

   :

3. Navigate to the i386 folder by typing

   cd i386 

4. Expand the sndvol32.ex_ file by typing

   expand -r sndvol32.ex_ %systemroot%\system32

Now your system should be recover from that error.

How To Fix Corrupted Files In Windows XP

Material:

1. Windows XP cd

Methods:

1. Start your PC

2. Go for "start".

3. Go for "run"

4. Type "sfc /scannow" (without "")

All your corrupted windows files will be replace.

Format Non-System Hard Drive or Partition using XP Disk Management

To open Disk Management

1. From the Start menu, click Run.
2. In the Open box, type diskmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
3. Select the drive or partition you want to format.
4. Right click the selected drive or partition.
5. Choose format from the list.

For more information select from the toolbar or from the right click menu.

Format XP by booting from the XP CD

BIOS must be set to boot from CD before hard drive.

1. Formatting an XP System Disk by booting from the XP CD is accomplished by loading the Recovery Console by typing R at the first window.
2. After selecting the Windows installation you want to access and typing in the Admin password [leave blank if no password was created] you will see a command prompt.
3. Type Map & press ENTER
4. Note the letter designation of the drive you want to format. [write it down]
5. type format x:/fs:fat32 then press ENTER, where x is the drive letter you want to format. Substitute NTFS or FAT if desired.
6. Type Y to confirm your selection and then type exit & press ENTER to restart computer.
7. To view other format commands, type format/? & press ENTER at the RC command prompt.

Format XP by booting from XP CD using an aborted setup

Note: I find this method to format a NTFS partition more time consuming than the use of FDISK from MS-DOS, but if a boot disk is not available use this method.

1. Formatting an XP System Disk by booting from the XP CD and using the setup routine is initiated by selecting ENTER at the first window. Example follows in step #2

2. When you see the "Welcome To Setup" screen, you will see the options below

   This portion of the Setup program prepares Microsoft
   Windows XP to run on your computer:
   
   To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
   
   

   To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R

   
   

   To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3.

3. After selecting ENTER you will be prompted to accept the EULA and then be given the option to choose the location to install XP. Your choices will include deleting partitions. Choose to delete the XP partition and any other partition you want to remove and then press ENTER.

4. Choose F3 to end setup.

5. You will need to use a boot disk or boot from the OS you want to install to format the unallocated space.

Can't open drive with double click

When it happen, just simply go to command prompt and write this command. :

c:\> attrib -r -s -h autorun.inf
c:\> del autorun.inf
d:\> attrib -r -s -h autorun.inf
d:\> del autorun.inf
restart the pc.


You also can try this solution


1Open Start >> Run and type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll
2. press ok
3. You will see a message DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shell32.dll succeeded
4. that�s it
SFE and tol PLEASE write how you solved this problem!