Remove Yellow Speaker From The Tray

If you find no useful purpose to have the yellow speaker displayed in the lower right corner (by the clock) of your tray, it’s easy to remove the display.

Yellow Speaker

  • Go to your Start Menu
  • Click Settings
  • Click Control Panel
  • Click Sounds and Multimedia (may just say Multimedia)
  • Click the Audio tab

Playback section:

  • Tick off ‘Show Volume Control On The Taskbar’ (This tick box may also show in the first tab ‘Sounds’)
  • Click Apply
  • Click ‘OK’

If you want to display the yellow speaker again, simply go through the above steps and check the ‘Show Volume Control On The Taskbar’ on. That’s it!

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