anonymous:
I am no expert in this (or any) forum, but what I think is happening is this: a recording program looks for the sound input.This can be wave, stereo mix, the sound card, or whatever. If it doesn't find any input, it cannot record audio. Vista apparently "hides" whatever sound device you have so the program cannot find it to use it.
I have tried 6 different programs, not one could find my sound card. This is my guess as to what is happening, I would appreciate any comment on it.