Windows update breaks microphone

1.       Microphone driver:

Windows often updates your audio driver whereas the updated driver might not be the correct one, so here’s what one can do. You need to first uninstall the audio driver in the device manager.

Right click the driver and click uninstall and restart the computer. This will install the driver again automatically.

If that doesn’t resolve the issue. Follow the same procedure and uninstall the driver but DO NOT RESTART.

2.       After you follow the above step and uninstall the driver, follow this article and you can find out hardware ID and reverse look up Google to get the correct driver which will certainly work.

3.       Some other methods would be fixing this by going to Realtek.com or to the manufacturer of the sound card website and install the latest driver as well. To do that, you can simply open Google:

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