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TonyB - 10 May 2008 23:25 GMT

Does anyone know how i can reinstall this program in XP? I've been
trying to use my mics to record and test them. I have 2 mics and they
both work in my laptop xp version of sound recorder...but I need to get
my desktop version to work. I checked all inputs of the volume control
and none of them are muted. Possibly, its corrupted?

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Gary S. Terhune - 11 May 2008 00:39 GMT

This is a Windows 98 newsgroup. You want a WindowsXP group.

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> Does anyone know how i can reinstall this program in XP? I've been trying
> to use my mics to record and test them. I have 2 mics and they both work
> in my laptop xp version of sound recorder...but I need to get my desktop
> version to work. I checked all inputs of the volume control and none of
> them are muted. Possibly, its corrupted?

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TonyB - 11 May 2008 01:16 GMT

> This is a Windows 98 newsgroup. You want a WindowsXP group.

Regardless, window's sound recorder are identical for win98 and xp...at
least I haven't noticed any changes. Don't be technical, answer it or not.

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Gary S. Terhune - 11 May 2008 02:31 GMT

Well, since this is a Windows 98 group and the answers aren't in the least
bit the same for Windows 98 and Windows XP, regardless of what your pissant
brain thinks, my answer is "not".

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>> This is a Windows 98 newsgroup. You want a WindowsXP group.
>>
> Regardless, window's sound recorder are identical for win98 and xp...at
> least I haven't noticed any changes. Don't be technical, answer it or not.

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TonyB - 12 May 2008 14:36 GMT

> Well, since this is a Windows 98 group and the answers aren't in the
> least bit the same for Windows 98 and Windows XP, regardless of what
> your pissant brain thinks, my answer is "not".

I suspected as such coming from you.

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Gary S. Terhune - 12 May 2008 16:16 GMT

When a person comes looking for help, he's got no business issuing
ultimatums. Makes him a pissant.

piss·ant also piss-ant (psnt) Slang
n.
1. One that is insignificant.

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>> Well, since this is a Windows 98 group and the answers aren't in the
>> least bit the same for Windows 98 and Windows XP, regardless of what your
>> pissant brain thinks, my answer is "not".
>>
> I suspected as such coming from you.

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glee - 11 May 2008 04:30 GMT

Replies inline....

> Does anyone know how i can reinstall this program in XP? I've been

As Gary already stated, since you are specifically asking how to "reinstall this
program in XP", you should ask in an XP group, as the methods for doing such are not
going to be the same as in Win98.

> trying to use my mics to record and test them. I have 2 mics and they both work in
> my laptop xp version of sound recorder...but I need to get my desktop version to
> work. I checked all inputs of the volume control and none of them are muted.

If all you see are "Mute" check-boxes, then you are not looking at the right thing,
be it Win98 or XP.
Open Volume Control, click the Options menu> Properties.
Click the "Adjust volume for> Recording" radio button.
In the "Show the following volume controls" box, check-mark at least Recording
Control, and Mic, plus any others you plan to use.
Click OK.

In the Recording Control volume control that appears, be sure that Mic has a check
in the "Select" box, and adjust the volume up to at least over the halfway mark, or
all the way up for testing.

Go back to Options menu> Properties, select the Playback radio button, then make
sure Mic is check-marked there also (in "Show the following volume controls"), then
click OK.

In the Master Volume control, make sure Mic does not have the Mute box check-marked.

> Possibly, its corrupted?

Not likely, if it is operating as described above....it is just an applet for
adjusting the volume controls.

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TonyB - 12 May 2008 14:47 GMT

> Replies inline....
>> Does anyone know how i can reinstall this program in XP? I've been
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> Not likely, if it is operating as described above....it is just an
> applet for adjusting the volume controls.

I did step by step as u suggested and still no positive results. I do
not want to reinstall XP just for sound recorder...i just thought there
was a small file that could be reinstalled again in the event it got
corrupted. There is very little help google wise or microsoft site that
settles this problem, unless of course i pay out $90. Thanks

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