Tiny Symbol Has Suddenly Appeared On My Screen.

[Graudian]

When I booted up this morning I noticed a tiny circle on the
screen just above the speaker symbol.
It is half the size of a match stick & even though I hovered over it
I can't remove it or discover what it is.
Being an absolute technophobe I am hoping it is not sinister.
I ran Malwarebytes with no issues thrown up.

Any advice please as I am a worrier.
Thanks.

[Old_Geezer]

Unsure. Not got it on mute or something then ? Open up the audio control window and see if a setting can account for it.

[Graudian]

Thanks but it doesn't seem to be that.
The other odd thing is that even if I close down it is still there until
the last thing.

There is some sort of logo inside the circle but even with a magnifying
glass it is too tiny to read.

[Old_Geezer]

A picture may help someone recognise it.

[Graudian]

Thanks again but I don't know how to take a picture.

[Old_Geezer]

You have a print screen (PreScn) key that will put it in the paste buffer. You then paste that into, for example, a paint programme and save it to your drive.

Then you find a hosting site to register with and upload that picture file to it.

Then you can post a link to that picture file in your thread.

[Graudian]

Thanks for your patience - I'll try.

You're not such an Old_Geezer are you!

[Old_Geezer]

Some days I feel centuries old.
Meanwhile, who knows, someone may recognise your description anyway.

[Bertrum]

Run Msconfig to see what is running on startup something may give you a clue as to what it is

[HansUrbancka]

What equipment has the screen. Is it a Laptop, Desktop, Tablet or whatever.?

A note of make and model would also help.

If the circle has a line diagonally across it, it might be indicating that your speakers are muted.

Hans.

[Graudian]

Thanks Bertrum but unfortunately nothing was revealed.

[Graudian]

Hans

It is an Acer Aspire 7540 series laptop.
The speakers do not appear to be muted.

[HansUrbancka]

You have said that you have hovered the mouse over it, but have you actually done a right click onto it, to see if a menu appears.

I admit to being at a loss to think what the circle means or how it got there, but have been searching the internet to see if I can get any clues.

Hans.

[Quoi]

I'm interested what you are looking at when you say your 'speaker symbol'

does yours look like this

http://www.myiconfinder.com/icon/wooffer-bass-sub-audio-up-down-configuration-options-panel-speaker-system-volume-music-media-player-button/3078

or this

http://www.myiconfinder.com/icon/speaker-audio-louder-loudspeaker-music-sound-volume/10193

[Graudian]

Thanks for your efforts Hans.

I did right click but nothing appears.
I'll probably do what I always in these cases - ignore it and pretend
it is just something inexplicable.

[janbee]

When this happens on mine, it means that my speaker/volume is on mute.

[Graudian]

Sorry Quoi you weren't there when I replied to Hans

The speaker symbol is the second one in your question.

[Graudian]

Thanks janbee.

Just to be sure I played some music from Youtube with no problem.

[HansUrbancka]

Computers/Laptops are strange animals. Sometime, disconnecting all cables to them and removing batteries, if possible, then leaving for Half an hour and then re-connecting everything, is enough to correct faults which have developed.

You may consider trying a complete shutdown with all cables disconnected or even contacting Acer as indicated in the following link:-

http://acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/service-contact

Hans.

[hc4361]

If it's working okay, ignore :)

[Graudian]

Thanks again Hans.

I did as you suggested and disconnected everything - but no joy.