as fast as it disappeared, it has reappeared and the check box is no longer grayed out. So I checked the box and it is back, for now any way. I checked out that article of your second post an holy crap batman, that is a lot of work for one little missing icon problem. MS doesn't make it easy on us. Now my problem is the volume keys on laptop don't work....what the hell now. Do you have a fix, suggestion for that....Thanks.