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‎01-24-2026 02:29 PM

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Hello,

I've a strange issue. Due to some other issues I had to completely removed my Zbook Firefly 14 G9 Realtek audio drivers. So I removed all audio related drivers. 

After restart I've re-installed the latest Audio drivers. 

Finally everything worked fine, BUT only one thing had changed. On the Navigation bar (bottom-right corner), where usually the Volume control placed, I could not see the Mic volume anymore.

At the beginning, when the Windows and Drivers was installed (win11 23H2), I could find the volume control and the mic volume control icon on the navigation bar, when I click on the nav bar. At this moment everything works fine, no issue, only mic volume control disappeared. Since than I have installed a lot of audio driver update, but mic-volume icon is still missing.

Could somebody help me, how to force Windows(regedit trick maybe) to show up the microphone volume control again somehow?

(independently from that mic volume can be adjusted in the programs I use, Teams, etc, but would be comfortable if i can see it on this navigation bar, where the normal volume control is placed)

Thanks in advance!

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