Microphone auto muting and the levels go down to zero

Anonymous
2014-11-04T03:18:40+00:00

Hello all.

I have come upon a recent issue with my computer. My microphone automutes itself , and the levels go down to zero as well. Even if I manually adjust levels to 100 and unmute it resets and automutes again after a short time ( less than a minute ). I have not updated drivers but I cannot see them being the issue because I had zero issues yesterday why would the problem begin today I did not update or install any new programs. I have tried another mic plugged in through the standard jack and it does the same thing. My mic is a logitech webcam USB. Any suggestions? I cant seem to find any solutions on the web other than the obvious " Oh unmute it" .

I feel this is a windows 7 issue and this is why I have come here.

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Anonymous
2016-10-13T19:08:30+00:00

Hey, 

I made a video on how to fix this issue. 

You can watch the video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xQMlZEyr0

Hope that it helps!

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-10-30T21:42:48+00:00

    My friend fixed this problem by going to recording devices selecting the mic selecting properties under advanced and unchecking allow applications to take exclusive control of this device and give exclusive mode application priority and then restarting.

    after you restart the options should be automatically reselected though. was here looking for a solution found none. and they fixed it and decided to help others as seems the people that run it (this web sight) only knows basic troubleshooting information anyone who knows how to turn on a computer knows.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-30T16:00:33+00:00

    Hey, 

    I made a video on how to fix this issue. 

    You can watch the video here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4xQMlZEyr0

    Hope that it helps!

    What Should  I do if there isn't a svchost running under my computer's name? There are some under my user name... should I end those?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-02-20T20:19:22+00:00

    I had the same issue it was caused by 4 Trojans i found with malware-bytes

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-07T15:25:24+00:00

    Hi,

    I would suggest you to check if the issue persists in different computer.

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