When I click record the button depresses and nothing happens

[aedm]

I have used audacity for a long time on my desktop, which is running XP, but have had a devil of a time getting it to function on a laptop running Vista. First, I couldn't get it to record any sounds except those being inputted by the microphone, so no direct output, only the output that was being broadcast by the speakers and routed through the integrated pickup. Now, I actually want to use that integrated microphone, and lo and behold, when I push record, I can't even get that to work. The record button remains depressed until I hit stop, and a new track appears, but nothing is recorded, not even dead silence. Any ideas?

[steve]

IMPO, Vista is horrible for recording.
There may be some information here to help: http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index. ... s_Vista_OS