Windows 10: After Windows 20H2 special function key won't mute microphone

Hey,

so I have Lenovo IdeaPad laptop and I had Win 1909 everything was working smoothly but Microsoft started pushing the 20H2 update so I was forced to install it. After installation my mic was not working at all I ran the troubleshooter and somehow my mic was muted and it was fixed. So now my mic works but I used to mute/unmute my mic with special function keys like F4 will mute/unmute my mic but this is now not working at all I tried reinstalling the sound driver, the microphone is set to default... nothing works.

Any help?

:)

 

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Windows Explorer is muting microphone

Hi Jozef,

To help you stop your microphone from muting automatically, we suggest that you follow the steps suggested by
Kalpana Shankarappa on this
thread that talks about the same issue.

Let us know how it goes.

Thank you.

 

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