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- Posted on Jan 30, 2011
Re: How to unmute laptop sounds. Its mute and i am not...
- Click START
- click CONTROL PANEL
- click SOUNDS and AUDIO DEVICES
- Look at the box labelled SOUND RECORDING - if the DEFAULT DEVICE is listed as WAVE DEVICE (may have some letters and or numbers in front of the words WAVE DEVICE - they are only the name of the device) go to step 6 otherwise click the little downward arrow at the right hand end of the DEFAULT DEVICE box. Scroll down the pop-up list to WAVE DEVICE and click on it.
- click VOLUME in the SOUND RECORDING box
- A window will open entitled 'Recording Control'
- Put a tick (check-mark) in the little white box under the heading of MICROPHONE and make sure the Volume slider is at the top of the scale.
- Close the window to go back to the Sounds and Audio Devices Properties Window.
- If you also want to hear what you are saying into the microphone over your own loud-speakers / headphones click on the VOLUME button in the SOUND PLAYBACK box.
- A VOLUME CONTROL window will open. If MICROPHONE is in the list of sound sources go to step 11 otherwise click OPTION on the tool-bar at the top right of the VOLUME CONTROL window. Then click PROPERTIES. With a little green dot in the PLAYBACK box look where it says 'Show the following volume controls' - place a check-mark against microphone and then click OK
- In the VOLUME CONTROL window remove any check-mark from the MUTE box under the MICROPHONE heading and also make sure that the MUTE ALL box (bottom left) is also un-checked.
- Close the VOLUME CONTROL window. Press OK to close the Sounds and Audio Devices window and exit CONTROL PANEL
- That should be it but if you are using MSN Messenger / Skype or other similar program you will need to start that program and click on the TOOLS button followed by SOUNDS and TEST AUDIO - follow screen prompts thereafter.
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