Cannot turn microphone on, please help.

Dear All.
I was playing about with a USB microphone yesterday with little success.
In order to stop the built in microphone from interfering I disabled it.
Now I cannot enable it. If I go into sound devices and look under the
recording tab, there are no devices to select and enable.
Can anyone help, please.

AMcF

The Sound card will be a device listed in Device Manager (in the Control
Panel) Use the Action menu to 'uninstall' it, then 'scan for hardware
changes'

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"Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
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> Dear All.
> I was playing about with a USB microphone yesterday with little success.
> In order to stop the built in microphone from interfering I disabled it.
> Now I cannot enable it. If I go into sound devices and look under the
> recording tab, there are no devices to select and enable.
> Can anyone help, please.
>
> AMcF

Bingo! Worked first time.
Many Thanx.
AMcF


"Mark L. Ferguson" <> wrote in
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> The Sound card will be a device listed in Device Manager (in the Control
> Panel) Use the Action menu to 'uninstall' it, then 'scan for hardware
> changes'
>
> --
> Please use the Communities guidelines when posting.
> http://www.microsoft.com/wn3/locales...help_en-us.htm
> Use the "Ratings" feature. It helps the new users.
> Mark L. Ferguson MS-MVP
> https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Mark.Ferguson
>
> "Alex McFarlane" <> wrote in message
> news:AA24B7E1-7C57-4E1D-807A-...
>> Dear All.
>> I was playing about with a USB microphone yesterday with little success.
>> In order to stop the built in microphone from interfering I disabled it.
>> Now I cannot enable it. If I go into sound devices and look under the
>> recording tab, there are no devices to select and enable.
>> Can anyone help, please.
>>
>> AMcF
>
>

I switched off speech recognition and now can't enable it and, as wit
Alex, I can't find a device to select and enable in sound devices. An
help, please

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Fjp

Have found a solution, I went into sound devices/recording tab. In tha
window I right clicked and a box popped up showing disabled microphones
All you have to do is enable them again

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Fjp

Thanks for letting us know - it may well help others.

SteveT

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> The Sound card will be a device listed in Device Manager (in the Control
> Panel) Use the Action menu to 'uninstall' it, then 'scan for hardware
> changes'

That is one workable method. We think our method is somewhat simpler. Right
click on the Speaker icon in the lower right Taskbar. Choose Recording
Devices. Right click in the windows and select "Show Disabled Devices."

Marty Markoe, eMicrophones, Inc.
See us at: http://www.mymmsspeech.com
New to Windowsâ„¢ Speech Recognition?
See, Getting Started with Windows® Speech Recognition at:
http://www.mymsspeech.com/download/WSRGetStarted.pdf