I have used Audacity for a long time but I think this is the first time I have used it since Windows 11. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and, of course, rebooting. I have removed every external sound device (speakers, mics, etc) from my laptop to avoid any confusion. I have tried every combination of host and recording device in the Audacity setup multiple times with restarts in between. I have tried recording from different types of files (widows media player, VLC, clipchamp). Nothing works. I’m at a loss. Help!
This usually isn’t Audacity itself—it’s almost always a Windows 11 driver or latency issue.
Try these quick fixes:
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Switch host to Windows WASAPI
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Update or reinstall your Realtek/OEM audio driver (from laptop manufacturer site)
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Disable audio enhancements + exclusive mode
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Set power mode to Best Performance
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Make sure sample rate matches in Windows + Audacity (44.1 or 48 kHz)
If it still happens, run LatencyMon—it will usually point to the exact driver causing the dropouts.
You also removed the settings folder which can be found in
%appdata%/Roaming/audacity
???
If not, all possibly wrong settings would remain there…
How will that help to resolve the stated problem?
@hellencharlezz seems to be an AI bot - don’t bother to reply…
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Yes, I suspected that too. Getting lots of likes for random posts made me suspect all was not as it seemed. Also, the responses were too clinical to be human IMHO.
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Thanks for this. I tried all of the steps and no luck. I finally decided I was over it and bought new software which worked fine 
I saw this on another post and tried it but that folder was already empty. Thanks for the advice though.
Not a bot, I just didn’t have time to get back to this (and sadly I ended up just buying an alternative solution)