Windows 10: Windows 11 desktop taskbar sound icon speaker icon does not change when muting or unmuting...

I have windows 11 and I have an asus keyboard it has a mute button on it. Usually when I window out of something the sound will mute and then unmute when I reopen that window and the task bar speaker icon will change along with the sound changing. Recently I had several updates through asus armoury app and a windows update thought that might fix things but it has not. I have tried restarting windows explorer I have tried uninstalling and restarting my computer that does not work there are also no updates to be had that I have found. If I have Realtek selected for my sound output device it work

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Apparent bug: Windows 11 Sound icon in Notification bar is in the wrong state at startup or after sleep

Not the biggest thing in the world I accept! But, here, the sound icon in the notification bar shows "muted" on startup or after sleep although sounds are heard. If you click on the "muted speaker" icon in the sound bar and then click on the "muted speaker" icon in the popup settings menu the sound is then actually muted and the icon remains unchanged. Another press of this icon unmutes sound and changes to the regular (unmuted) speaker icon. So, it seems, for some reason, this icon is just out of sync with the true state after startup or sleep.

 

Speaker MUTE Key and ICON

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mute key mutes and unmutes speaker but ICON stays on all the time

 

Prevent sound from unmuting while lowering down the volume

The Windows Volume Control does the same as our TVs, any change in the Volume slider unmutes the sound, apparently "just the way it is made". But then there's a Mute button on our TV remotes while clicking the Speaker icon on the Windows slider bar itself mutes instantly. Some browsers have a speaker icon on tabs that can be clicked to mute only that sound when on a Web site.