No recoding device found

Audacity 3 Help Forum Windows
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I have a new’ish HP z240 running Widows 11 Pro. I have Audacity installed and it was working OK until I deleted the XBox app. I was trying to loose unused apps that I will never explore. I’m not a gamer.

The RealTek speaker icon in the Task Bar tray (lower right) is there and working. I can adjust speaker volume, etc. I can hear system sounds and the audio from shows on YouTube. I just can’t record …

So I went on line and looked for all the possible issues with “Settings, Sound”

In the input section I get “No Input Device Found” The machine comes with RealTek sound system embedded. And Intel video system embedded. I have checked the System components in Device Manager and both RealTek and Intel are there. Both are enabled. Both had their drivers updated (right click, update). And the computer has been restarted multiple times. Always with the same result.

I downloaded MS Windows “Sound Recorder” and installed it. It says it can’t file files.

When I installed an earlier version of Audacity (2.3.3 I think), I got a message that a DLL was missing. wxbase311u_VC_custom.DLL

OK, I went looking for that and can’t find it anywhere on the net, or the MS web site.

Sort of tearing my hair out at this point. Any help greatly appreciated

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Windows 11 should have a Troubleshooter utility

Or, I assume it’s a driver problem. Have you checked to see if you can download the drivers from HP?

Or you could get another soundcard or USB audio interface.

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My home computer has a built-in RealTek sound processor, and there is a system service that is needed for it. Also on my computer is a process in the Scheduled Tasks that starts the service when a user logs into Windows. I don’t know why they don’t just set the service to Automatic, but that is how they are doing in on my computer.

It would be real easy for someone to go looking through the Scheduled Tasks, see something that runs when they log on, and disable it, thinking, “I don’t want things taking up memory by running every time I log on.” This is a perfectly valid concept, but those who do that will have to manually start the system service to use the RealTek hardware.

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I found a solution by logging out and coming back in as the builder/seller and activating the sound devices. Originally was trying to do that from my local user account …

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You might have been able to do that without logging out and back in again by pressing Win+R and typing: runas /user:Administrator “control.exe”