Unable to see/turn on network, battery, volume, etc. icons

Hello,

I recently noticed my network and battery icons have disappeared off my taskbar. When I tried to put them back, the check boxes in customize notification area were greyed out. I did a little research and people who had the same problem said to run "sfc /scannow" in command prompt. After attempting that, cmd gave me an error.


I'm guessing the problem is a little more complicated than I thought. Any ideas?

Thank you for your responses but I am still having trouble.

Jerry, I did run the scan as administrator and still no luck.


Shawn, I tried using the both options without any luck as well.
Option 1: I can't run Local Group Policy Editor as an snap-in in MMC (It's not in the snap-in menu) or searching for gpedit.msc.


Option 2: I've downloaded each registry edit and ran it. Still nothing

Any other thoughts?

Ok, I ran Malwarebytes and it cleaned out a couple of things but still no luck.

I read the thread you linked but still couldn't find my problem.

Would it be best to try to repair windows with the installation disc first before system restoring? I realized I turned off system restore on my c drive so my only restore points are right when the problems began .