How to mute microphone in Windows Vista
I’ve been using Vista for some times and then my mic is always plug into my computer. The thing that bother me is I can heard my voice when I talk into the microphone. This sucks, which mean when I volume up my speaker, I can heard a loud irritating noise. Besides that, without Mic Boost on, my friend can hardly heard me on Skype, but then the problem is not I don’t want to turn on Mic Boost, it’s I can’t. If I turn on, then the loud irritating noise can be heard again.
So, now I need to mute my microphone so I can’t heard my voice when I am talking into it, but it still can take my voice in during Skype call or other recording software.
I had been looking around in Vista to mute the Microphone but then I found nothing in the mixer. After searching for some help on the net, I found out how to mute the microphone.
First, open Control Panel. Look for Sound and open it.
Then at Playback tab, right click on Speakers then click on Properties.
Click on Levels tab, then you’ll see Microphone. There’s a speaker icon there, click on it and you’ll now got your Microphone mute.
Walla! It’s done. Congratulation now you can no worry of turning your speaker loud and doing mic boost.
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Comments 8 Dec 7th, 2007
June 20th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
This really helped me out i’m new to vista, thanks alot =)
August 16th, 2008 at 11:18 am
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September 13th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Doesn’t work! I click on levels and I only see one slider/mute button for a speaker. I would really like to mute the built in mics.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
yeah same here even on my cerative sound card audgiy i would like to mute the mic while playing music and other as games u know i don’t want to hear myself playing the game or music while talking to other people while program make the mic feedsable to talk into it. it does ehco out of the mic issue from the speaker of your desktop other than I don’t want to find a switch type mic to trun off and on if I want to talk into it.vista team need to look into it i t sould be the same as xp
September 21st, 2008 at 1:03 am
Oh it doesnt work, after choose levels tab i see only “Realtek HD Audio output” and “PC Beep”
October 29th, 2008 at 5:31 am
THANK UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! MAN THAT MIC ON WAS SO ANOYING
October 30th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Thank you so much, it worked for me.
November 20th, 2008 at 7:32 am
If the mic does not show up under playback devices, try under Recording devices/Mic Properties/Levels. That’s where I found mine.