i thank you for that. my mic is now working but that window steal freezes up

"Spirit" wrote:
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> 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=green]
> > 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]
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