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Hello,


     I got my acer aspire one laptop for christmas. It is a ZG5 model. It was working perfectly fine in the beginning and randomly when I turned it on one day the icon bar at the bottom of the screen was gone. I was not able to view my battery status, volume bar, internet connection, etc. Also, my stupid friend tried installing this program called winzip and after attempting it I was no longer able to access  my internet connection from the settings part as well. I am completely not able to connect to my wireless internet. Please help i'm in desparate need.


                                                                             Thank you,
                                                                                             AmandaConfiguration: Mozilla Firefox
Linux/Linpus

Steve · Accepted Answer

Try this: 

Method #1
Volume Icon Missing

     1.  Open task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del)
     2.  In the Processes Tab, click to highlight “explorer.exe” 
     3.  Then click “End Process” (desktop icons disappear)
     4.  Click on “File” “New Task (Run)”
     5.  In the Open box, type “start systray.exe”
     6.  Click OK
     7.  Again, click on “File” “New Task (Run)”
     8.  In the Open box, type “start explorer.exe”
     9.  Click OK again.

Everything comes back, including the Volume Icon. 
 Method #2
Volume control program - SndVol32.exe Missing
1.	Go into your Control Panel and open Folder Options. 
2.	Under the View tab uncheck "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)", click Apply/OK. 
3.	Now go into Windows Explorer (Not Internet Explorer) and go to C:\Windows\System32\dllcache folder and open it. 
4.	Locate the sndvol32.exe file right click it, choose copy. 
5.	Next go to the C:\Windows\System32 folder and open it. 
6.	In the right pane right click an empty area and choose Paste. 

Now you should have your volume icon back.

beee · Answer

there should be a little arrow in the bottom left hand corner, click that and it should bring the tool bar back up :)

beee x

tiger · Answer

well right click if uv got the extra menu thing then go to settings then go to settings maniger then go to panel maneger
thn change the appearance size (pixels): to 30 thn change position to fixed position thn mark (showhidebutton) 
thn theres a square box thing click the middle botam thn change it to full width and thats u thn go to terminal 
an put (xfce4-panel -a)  in thn put ur icons back down the botam done!!!!! it dose work I had the same problem  :)

jojoshanshan · Answer

Heya I used to have this problem and I have a dell ispiron laptop...... just hold the on off button for 6seconds and then when u turn ur comp back on it should be ok.... good luck :) xx

samie · Answer

press F11 on the key board and it should go smalll and then come back on I have just done that to my comp 
:) x

kelly · Answer

hi I seemed to av lost the vloume icon on the screen of my pc , therfore I cannot lisen to any music games ect does anyone no wat to do plz thanks kelly x.

Fay Cooper · Answer

hello name is fay cooper 

i got an aspire one acer laptop for christmas it has been working ever since I got it then one day my internet went and I went on settings and it wouldent let me go onto the settings like try a new net gear like that but it didnt let me on it.
It let me go on every think ealse but not the internet.
me and my mum have tryed every every think.
please could some one help me :) 
thank you

Yrag · Answer

Hi Amanda,

Im not sure if you have already find a solution to your GREEN VOLUME BAR INDICATOR problem, but anyways the solution is the "LAUNCH MANAGER"

Resinstall or enable this function and your volumne indicator should pop out when you turn the volumne dial.

If you are using and ACER notebook, you can use the ACER eRecovery Maanagement, then select the "Reinstall applications/drivers", from here just follow it step by step, but be sure to select only the driver for the LAUNCH MANANGER to avoid accidentally reformating your system.

I hope this is helpfull.

Yrag.

Tom6 · Answer

I am guessing that you are new to linux and might appreciate a few other links

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Links?action=show&redirect=Signpost%2FQuestions#help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows
http://www.linuxquestions.org

Also to get to forums specific to your particular version of linux try navigating through from this site
https://distrowatch.com/
I think Aspire has Ubuntu so my first links should be good for that ;)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

hannah · Answer

if the start button dissaperes press f11 then the start button comes back up

arron · Answer

its not workin, nothing comes up not even my task manger. dont know what to do

smash · Answer

i had the same problem sorta I just upgraded to windows 7 from vista, and for some reason my wireless and sound icon disappeared and if you click on the arrow pointing up where it says customize.. click that and then click the little blue question mark icon and it will help you with the help topics OR you can just click any empty space down there on the taskbar and then click properties. and a window will pop up that lets you choose which icons are visible and which are hidden.. just click which ever ones you want or need.. as for why your internet isnt working.. that could be a number of problems. have you tried diagnosing it?  callingyour ISP.. I hate calling those people as much as the next person but they help fix the problem especially if you have tried diagnostics, unplugging your router restarting and all that other crud.. Good luck hope you get it figured out.

Ruthiie · Answer

Hey, whoever said press f11, thanks cause it worked. 
Thanks a lot.. Ruthiie

Joy · Answer

Thank you STEVE!!! I have my volume back after task mgr...then using run to start explorer again.

harry · Answer

please,my  address bar and location bar plus navigator hav failed to come on,please help me!!!!!!

Maureen · Answer

Have lost the two little computers to indicate internet connection as well as the volume icon on bottom right bar.  How should I restore these??

lo · Answer

F11

hlaptopb · Answer

try pressing f11

Bruce · Answer

I was able to restore battery meter icon on Acer aspire running XP SP3 by doing the following:
  Ctrl-Alt-del all at the same time
  Click "processes" tab
  scroll to and highlight "explorer exe"
  Click end process 
  Click "File" "New Task"
  cut and paste, or type: explorer.exe
  Click "OK"
  Ctrl-Alt-del all at the same time
  Click "File" "New Task"
  cut and paste, or type: systray.exe
  Click "OK"
  
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EnZo · Answer

Ok guys - took me a little while to figure this out, people were solving this problem in the windows operating system.

I am fixing an Asipre One - Model : ZG5 - Operating System : Linux

From what I have researched the problem is creating from a system crash, when the system reloads the panel(taskbar) resets back to default.

### Open a terminal session(Press Alt + F2)

### In the terminal type xfce4-panel -a
In this screen you get the option to add functions to the panel.
Add all the nessacary ones, (some defaults that I remember are)Clock,Tasklist,Volume etc.

Each Time you add a new function to the panel you may have to type (xfce4-panel -a) again in the terminal to load the list.

### Once you have added all the functions type xfce4-panel -c

This displays the panel customization which if you play around with you can get it back to the bottom of the screen(The same as windows).

### Once you have it in position type xfce4-panel -s

This Saves your configuration

All done - Restart the netbook and all should be fine.

If you need help with additional options using the xfce4-panel you can always type xfce4-panel --help, this will displays the xfce4-panel options

I hope this helps anyone with similar problems, feedback is always welcome

EnZo

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