I can see the volume control icon in taskbar, the soundcard is OK and all the drivers are ok AFAIK but I still can't use my "volume control" window.

You see, when I right-click the sound icon on my taskbar and open volume control, the volume control window pops open, but it opens outside my screen! I've tried to play around with my resolution and maxed it to 1280x, but I still can't get my hands on the Volume Control. Now this is very annoying, since apparently I've got two mutes on there or something so I can't hear any wave sounds in my Windows. All the DOS-based games' music play correctly, but I can't hear anything when I play my mp3- or oggfiles.

I've tried many things during the last week to fix this, but nothing so far has worked. Do I really have to reinstall my Win98 for something this trivial?

Any help would be appreciated.

Perhaps uninstalling and reinstalling it will fix it.

Go to 'add/remove programs' in control panel and click the 'windows setup' tab and go down to 'multimedia'. Uncheck volume control, then 'apply', 'OK' and reboot. Go back into windows setup--multimedia and recheck volume control.

Tried it, didn't help. Any other ideas?

You could try removing the sound driver in the Device Manager. It will be reinstalled on the next boot.

I'm a bit foxed. If you know it is there then presumably you can see it. In which case I wonder why you can't drag it left with the blue top bar.

I'm oviously not understanding this but wonder if you go direct and type sndvol32 in the Run box whether this will assist in some way.

Derek.W

The ICON is there, I can see it, I can even open the separate detailed volume adjustment thingie which I want to use, but it pops open outside my screen when I open it. I can't access it.

In general, removing the software that installed the icon and then reinstalling it would seem to be the way to go. I know you've tried it through 'windows setup' but have you uninstalled the sound drivers as mentioned by ham30?

Unfortunately, it's probably a situation where it'd be easier to figure out if we could see it for ourselves.

Double-click the sound icon to invoke the advanced control "thingy"

Press ALT-space then hit M (for move) and use the arrow keys to position the control panel - press Enter when done

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I'll have to remember that one.

It's an old (Win31) convention that occasionally comes in handy

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