4th msg. 1-3 went ignored. Audacity worked great for 10yrs until a month ago. Cannot record from web, or auto start when sound is detected. Preferences have been verified.
I went online to try other apps, Better Audio being one (based on Audacity program) and all of these apps render the same symptoms. I don’t have a clue what to do … going wacko… help! 
OK, so right away we have problems. Your post also says:
This is the first time jakethecat has posted
We can’t go back and look at your previous posts unless we know who you were. Changing your ID as you go is not a good idea.
Windows? Which One? We need to build your system in our imagination to figure out what’s going on.
Recording internet sound is not easy.
Computers have two simple sound pathways: Come in from the internet and go to your speakers/headphones; and start from a microphone and go to Audacity for recording. The two pathways don’t easily cross.
It’s possible to record your speaker sound, but that gets tired in a big hurry because you have to leave your speakers turned up to get a good recording.
So people designed software to add a special sound pathway.
This immediately bumps into other software such as Skype, Zoom, Meet, or Multi Player Games that also want to manage sound pathways—and they don’t take no for an answer.
If it is Windows, have you ever done a Clean Shutdown? When you shut down or restart Windows, it doesn’t close everything. It’s possible that software gets left behind and that could be what’s causing the problems.
A Clean Shutdown closes everything and can take longer, but leaves you with a clean, fresh machine to do your jobs.
Save your work and close all your applications.
Method 1 or Method 4.
When shutting down finishes, start the machine, start Audacity, and set it for internet recording. Do Not let anything other than your browser start.
Koz
Audio enhancements would be common to all audio apps …
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/disable-audio-enhancements
Post back if any of this works, or if the symptoms change.
Koz
Then it is a general problem on your machine, not a problem with Audacity…
Mh…
First, if you don’t provide details about your setup (operating system, OS version, Audacity version, what settings, what you already tried with what result, etc.), nobody can help you.
Second: “Hope you get it fixed soon” implies that you do not understand that this is a forum where users (try to) help other users. It is not the direct contact to the authors of Audacity.
Can re-enable “audio enhancements”.
Let the other couple people who helped know I appreciate their ideas. This one got me doing diagnostics/tests via MS assistance, and a couple issues re: the drivers came up. Followed the prompts and low and behold, it fixed the problem.
Got a bit of knowledge about how the forum works. Thanks again. 
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