Accidentally deleted internal microphone - I hit 'disable' and now it's gone. How can I find it?

[CindyJohnston99]

Thank you very much!  Worked with your link to the step by step instruction.  the right mouse on recording screen is what was getting me.  I kept clicking properties in the bottom right corner.  LOL  Sometimes it is the simple things that stump us.   Thanks again.

 Cindy

[Daniel_Potyrala]

You're welcome.

[romboowner]

To go to more further details.

It's that some people aren't able to see the "Show Disabled Devices."

To do it go to:

Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Recording > Right click on Stereo Mix (if you have another one that isn't called Stereo Mix then right click that one) > Click on "Show Disabled Devices." > Now the microphone should appear > right click the default microphone > click enable it.

Thank you,

Hope I helped out. 

[Prosperra]

I had the same problem then realized he said RIGHT CLICK.  There is no option that says "view disable devices" on the screen; you have to right click your mouse to see the drop down box...there will be an option that says "View Disable Devices."    All the best

[bobcodew3]

xinort, i tried it your way and it was very simple to recover.......this feature is missleading and when the icon just dissapear, panic sets in.

i recovered the mic and it is working fine. thanks

[ENTERPRISE31417]

Hello, I did exactly what you recommended and it worked.  However, now I have a very bad "echo" coming through my speakers and if I "boost" the microphone settings I get this terrible feedback sound and it is not controllable.  I have to literally shut down the laptop and re-start it again.  The sound is really awful and I don't know where the settings are to eliminate this.  Even right now as I am typing I can hear the microphone picking up the sound from my mouse.  It's really bad!!  Also when having a conversation in any chat room websites the people say they cannot hear me. Can you please help me?  I would like to get this resolve ASAP.  Looking forward to hearing from you.  Thank you.  

[Daniel_Potyrala]

@ENTERPRISE31417

Hi,

Please start a new post because this topic is only about problem with disabled microphone and when you will do this post here link to it.

[JMickkdd]

Yep, that worked for me too.  Its not very apparent when you are there though.  Thanks - whoever you are!

[Paisley777]

I have the exact same problem, but there is no "Show disabled devices" option.  Where else might that be?

[astroqueen]

Hi, your direction and download did not work for me. I received a error message that I have no audio devices on my computer. So is there a download for that?

Also under recording there are no devices listed and none of the buttons on the bottom are highlighted.

I disabled the built in mic hoping I could use the mic on my headphones for making Google Voice or Skype calls. When I did work with the built in mics before they reverberated and caused all types of noise. They also cut out my voice and other people couldn't hear me. Now, I seem to have a worst problem with no mic or audio devices detected on my computer.

The person who mentioned right clicking on the Recording box solved my problem.

Not sure which operating systemn I have, Windows 8.1 but don't know the bites.