With the Mic plugged in go into Device Manager and remove it
(look in sounds) and the rest of the sound card. Reboot, be
prepared re-install your audio drivers.... good time to go look
for the latest drivers before you do this. When your reboot
the sound card and rest will be re-installed.

"james" <james@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:847E2312-73B5-4450-AC5A-627A90E1DFDA@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> I'm having a weird problem that I can't solve. When I click to go into my
> control panel and click the sound icon. I then click on the icon to access my
> microphone but the window freezes up and I can only close it by going into
> the task manager. I really need to turn my microphone on. is there anything I
> can do?[/color]