

If even your audio device has gone missing from the Control Panel, it would be a bad news.

Click Sounds, and then click Audio Devices.Click Sounds, click Speech, and then click Audio Devices.Click Start, and then click Control Panel.If there’s no such option in anything from the above method, try this:

Click Show volume control on the taskbar / Place volume icon in the task bar.(In Windows 8, type control panel from your start screen, Windows will find it for you) To enable the display of the Volume control icon in the taskbar, follow the steps below: How to Fix Volume Control Icon Missing from Taskbar Windows 8/7/XP This page was originally made for Windows XP users, but most of the methods should also work for the latest Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 7. If for some reason, you can’t do that, then try out the following methods. Try to recall what you’ve done recently before this problem exists, and then look into the causes, remove any program that you remember you’ve installed recently and see if the volume icon comes back. The most recommended solution is to find out what program causes the problem.
