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Today, when I booted my Windows 10 PC, it was extremely slow, and it takes 15 minutes for everything to be stable. I can use the PC as normal, but how matter I try, I cannot get the volume button in the taskbar to be working. When I clicked it, nothing showed up, no controls show up. I right clicked it, no context menus showed up. Other icons in the taskbar still works normally.

I tried to go into Settings and to the "Sound" part. When I went into the "Sound" part, it froze for minutes before showing the volume settings. I can only control the volume there, and not from the icon on the taskbar. I turned the icon on and off in taskbar settings, but it still isn't working.

Google doesn't tell anything helpful; it only shows me how to fix it when the icon itself doesn't show up. Now, the icon appears, but doesn't do anything. Can anyone help?

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my Windows 10 PC, it was extremely slow, and it takes 15 minutes for everything to be stable. I cannot get the volume button in the taskbar to be working.

(A) Try DISM / SFC:

(1) Open cmd.exe with Run as Administrator.

(2) DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /StartComponentCleanup

(3) DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

(4) SFC /SCANNOW

(5) Restart when all the above is complete and test.

(B) If DISM does not solve the issue (it may not), run a Windows 10 Repair Install.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Windows 10 is running, so click on the Download button (not Upgrade Button) and select Run.

Start with the option to Keep Everything and see if that works.

The next options: Keep Data and Keep Nothing are more aggressive.

A Repair Install will update all the drivers it can and that will be helpful

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  • I was talking about the volume button
    – Wolf20482
    Commented Dec 10, 2021 at 2:05
  • You also said the PC was running slow. So try DISM and SFC and see if that helps. DISM will try to repair all settings that it can.
    – anon
    Commented Dec 10, 2021 at 2:06

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