The more things you have loading up when you start your computer the slower the loading times get, also the computer uses up more memory this short guide will show you how to get the small speaker icon out of the system tray so Windows has one less thing to load up.

The purpose of the speaker icon is it allows you to adjust the volume of the speakers, but now we have our own speakers which do not come included with the PC so we can manually alter the volume ourselves.

Although this small tweak wont make your computer suddenly turn into a speed demon burning up the track it will however free some small amount of memory which will help things run a lot smoother.

Step One: Removing the speaker Icon.

Right click the speaker icon located in your system tray.

Select Adjust Audio Properties.

Look to the bottom of the properties box and you will see Show volume control on the taskbar. Remove the tick from the box to stop it loading in the system tray.

This shouldn't effect your sound in anyway, as its just a controller for the sound if you didn't have anyway to change your sound yourself.

If at anytime you wish for the little speaker icon to return to the task bar when your system loads follow the above instructions but place a tick in the volume control menu, where you removed it before.

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