Let the mute microphone under Windows 7 sound again

A friend around the author recently followed the trend to install Win7. Recently, when I used QQ chat, I found that the other party could not hear his voice. I can clearly hear the sound with the system sound recording function, indicating his The microphone is normal. I thought it was a problem with the other computer, and the result was normal with XP. This problem can plague him for a long time, so the brave author took the shot, and finally found the problem, and now also ugly, introduce it to everyone in case of need.

Step 1: Install the latest driver Do not use the system comes with

Because Win7's driver function is much stronger, this friend's notebook is automatically installed with the sound card driver after the system is installed. And usually used to listen to songs, watch movies, the sounds are all normal, it is normal to use a system recorder to sing a song, so there is no more to manage. However, this is probably the problem, so I suggest you update your sound card driver, you can go to the search engine to search for download.

Step 2: Set the microphone correctly

After the driver is properly installed, you need to turn on the microphone function. In XP, you can easily click the small speaker button on the taskbar to set it. The corresponding location in Win7 has changed. Go to the "Control Panel", select the "Sound" item, then switch to the "Record" tab to see if the "Microphone" is set as the default device. Of course, some sound cards may have multiple microphone options, so choose the correct one. "microphone".

Step 3: Turn off the microphone effect

With the above settings, your microphone may have sounded normally, but if you find that the microphone sound is small, you need to go into detail. Settings. In the "Record" tab in the second step, double-click the default "Microphone" icon to enter the detailed settings, switch to the "Level" option, drag "Microphone" to 100, and "Microphone Boost" to +30.0dB, If the sound is too loud, it can be adjusted. If the sound is small, it will not be adjusted. In addition, under the "Enhancement" tab, you can also disable all sound effects. According to the feedback of many netizens, turning on these effects may cause the microphone to have a small volume or even silence, so select "Disable all sound effects".

After the author's test, in the software that needs to use the microphone, such as QQ, YY and Sina UT, the above operation can solve the problem successfully.