Windows 10: USB plug and Play microphone not working properly

Hi, I have a problem with thi plug and play devices, its a microphone and the problem is it's too quiet. The solution I've found is to uninstall the device form the USB tab in devmgmt.msc, reboot the system and then plug in the microphone and let windows re-install it. Now, if i need to use the microphone I have to do this procedure every time after booting up the system. The microphone doesnt have specific drivers. Any better solution to this problem?

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Microphone not working properly after upgrade to 1803


After upgrade to 1803 my microphone is not working properly. I googeld and found many times this answer:

1. Hit Windows key and search for "microphone privacy settings"
2. Hit "Allow access to the microphone on this device"
3. Switch "Allow apps to access your microphone" to ON

Among the apps that are showing is Edge. There the mike is working, but on chrome and my games microphone is not working

 

Windows 10 USB Microphone will not find drivers on my desktop

As the title says, I just recently upgraded my work computer to windows 10 from windows 7. None of my microphones work now and are not recognized. I have a dual monitor set up that has webcams and mics on each one plus a USB microphone. Device manager
shows a exclamation mark beside each.

Steps I've tried

• Plug the USB mic into my wife's Surface Book. It works perfectly. Therefore, it's not the microphone.
• Plug it into every single USB slot on the computer and USB hubs, no go
• Disabled USB 3.0 in my bios, no go
• Run various TroubleShooters with no luck. The recording one just tells me its not plugged in.
• Buy a new microphone and try that, no go.
• Spent a day and half on google trying out numerous solutions, none work

I have to have a microphone since I work remote. I do not want to have to revert back to windows 7 just because I can't get a microphone to work.

It's not a fancy microphone, just a Dynex Plug and Play microphone. There are no drivers for it anywhere. I don't understand how my wife's Surface Book running windows 10 can find drivers for it but my desktop PC can't.

Between this and my Lumia 950 giving me all kinds of issues I'm just about done with windows.

[update]

Plugged in my 360 controller and hooked up the headset. The controller works, the headset doesn't.

 

Rundll32.exe hang (Recording devices) when USB microphone installed

Thank-you for your reply. I seem to have found at least a partial solution although I'm not quite sure how. These are the steps I took:-

• I uninstalled my Avast antivirus rather than just disabling it.
• I tried to uninstall the USB Audio device (which was the device Windows has detected and installed for the microphone).
• I found that even with the device uninstalled, the USB microphone appeared in "Recording devices" and rundll32.exe hung.
• I unplugged the device and managed to get it uninstalled and rebooted.
• I believe I then plugged it into a different USB port and it automatically reinstalled but as "Microphone (2-USB Audio Device)" and "Speakers (2-USB Audio Device)"
• The "Recording devices" dialogue now works OK with the microphone plugged into either USB port.
• I have reinstalled Avast and the microphone now appears to be working in Audacity but only with the mic plugged into the 2nd USB port.

I did run sfc (but in verifyonly for now) and no file integrity issues were found.

I'm not sure this is a complete or stable solution yet, but for now it appears that the upgrade process did not migrate the device properly and it is necessary to uninstall and reinstall with a reboot inbetween.

Stuart