In Joseph Anctil had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Just wondering if anyone knows how to restore this control in the
bottom tray of Windows XP. It's been there since the beginning but
simply dissapeared one day after I turned the PC on.
In addition to the other people's advice...
Yes, turn it back on. If it's on and not showing then turn it off and then
turn it back on. Then stop using a registry cleaner or be more careful. I
had a long (and I mean very long) thread with someone that ended in private
mail about it and finally we figured out that it was being eaten by his
registry cleaner. Since then, when asked, everyone who's had it go missing
has been using a registry cleaner. Not even always the same one...
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