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
    2017-07-11T15:39:15+00:00

    My mic mutes itself when I use the Blackboard program.  bb.collab.com.  I get a popup message in Blackboard that states The microphone has been muted by another application.  Do you want to unmute?  This only happens in Blackboard.  I can play music, I can watch youtube etc., and don't experience this.  I have searched through every application on my computer, on google, on FF and IE and cannot find which application is doing it.  I have used a different head set and it still does it.  I have tried other computers and I don't have this issue, so I know it's not Blackboard.  I tried your troubleshooting step, but I don't see a host folder you have discussed.  I have Windows 7 professional.  Does it have a different name on Windows 7?

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-08-20T20:24:42+00:00

    Your video is for Windows 10.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-01T00:11:52+00:00

    Your video is for Windows 10.  Dean Guitars above has Windows 7, and so do I.  We need a fix for Windows 7.  I don't have the svchost.exe on Windows 7.  This is a windows issue, and you people need to fix this.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-10-05T14:04:32+00:00

    Didn't.....any other advice

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