Windows 10 microphone mind f@ck

BOOM! It just switched on me between sentences I was dictating. User error my ass. Fuck this motherfucking shit!

 

If it switched while in use that can only indicate the device dropped out either to a poorly functioning driver or physical hardware failure. USB headset?

 

Yes, USB. I'll order a new one.

 

If you have multiple USB ports on your laptop/desktop, try a different one to rule out a bad port there

 

I've done that. Thanks.

 

Figured you had, but did not remember seeing it.

 

How long did you have the old one ?

 

I wanted to know if it was USB because you should be able to hear the USB disconnect reconnect sounds if you have the system sounds enabled.

 

A few years. Not sure.

Good point. It doesn't make the sound.

 

No.
There are gremlins built into Windows.

 

Was it right after you said the word 'disconnect' or 'switch'?

 

Hmmm....no USB drop kind of rules out the headset as I doubt the mic alone is dropping out. That points to drivers perhaps. Right click on the mic built into the laptop and disable it all together for a couple days and let's see if the headset mic ever drops out.

 

Dick.

Built-in had been disabled since Saturday when headset mic dropped out today.

 

Then that indicates that it had to re-enable the built-in mic and it certainly shouldn't be doing that without some user input. I'm running out of ideas without having the machine in front of me to beat on.

 

It doesn't re-enable the built-in mic. It just leaves me with no mic.

Maybe when you have some downtime someday you can play with it a little and see that I ain't crazy.

 

Cite

 

Then it's an intermittent failure of the device. Grab a new headset and re-test.

 

Try this instead.

 

Go back in time to about 1980, Monterey, California. Find the guy at DR that was too busy with his yoga lesson to see the people from IBM and kick him in the nuts. This won't fix your problem, but it might make you feel better.

 

On a related note, since last week on my work computer Win7, I tried to watch a MS tutorial video for excel and the video would not play through my headphones. the headphones are still the default audio. No matter what it plays through my laptop speakers whether the hp's are plugged into the laptop or docking station. While watching videos anywhere else(Yahoo, Facebook, Youtube) audio functions normally. Bill Gates is the devil.