turned out It's a hardware problem
Microphone picking up PC audio
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I've been struggling with this for a long time and decided to post the question here. For some reason my microphone is picking up all of the audio from my pc. I have already tried a lot of things.
Mix stereo is turned off
The microphone is not picking up physical sound from my headphones playing too loud because it still picks up sound even when I manually turn off sound in my headphones
Listen to this device is turned off
My microphone basically acts as if I turned on mix stereo but a bit quieter. It's been really annoying me and I have no idea what to do
I'm running windows 10 if it helps
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Anonymous
2022-02-03T14:10:24+00:00 -
Anonymous
2022-01-28T08:53:43+00:00 Good Day Szakusiek,
My name is Carlo, I am also using Windows 10 pc and community member like you. Let us work together to sort this out.
Here's the steps you can try.
-Press Windows key + X
-Go to Settings
-Click Update and Security
-Click Troubleshooter then Additional troubleshooter.
-Look for Speech and run the troubleshooter.
Once done proceed with these steps.
-Press Windows key + X
-Go to Device Manager
-Expand the Sound and Video Game Controller
-Look for Audio driver that was installed
-Right click and Update
-Look for "Browse my computer for driver
-Let me pick drivers available drivers
-Choose an old driver and use it.
-Go to Control Panel
-In Control Panel, select Large icons from the View by drop down menu.
-Select Sound.
-Select the Recording tab
-Right click the Microphone and click Enable.
-Right-click it again and select Set as Default Device.
-Right click Microphone and click Properties.
-Click the Levels tab, then drag the volume slider towards the largest value.
-Click OK
-Click Advance Tab
-Uncheck the box to "Allow application to take exclusive control on this device"
Restart and check the Microphone.
If issue persist, let's download the updated driver.
What is the exact model of your computer?
To check the system model proceed with these steps.
-Press Windows key + R
-Type msinfo32 and hit enter.
-Look for the System Model and manufacturer and post it here.
I hope the information above helps. Please let me know how it goes.
Have a wonderful day ahead and stay safe.
Sincerely,
Carlo T.
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Anonymous
2022-01-30T13:13:09+00:00 Hello Carlo T,
Sadly the fixes didn't work. Some I either straight up couldn't do or they just didn't fix anything Like for example troubleshooting speech brought up windows cortana. Below is a screenshot of the system summary you wanted.
Also sorry for the delayed reply I have a busy lifeThanks,
Szakusiek