Eugene

I managed to fix this on my computer...

It wasn't a vista issue as such, but a SigmaTel Audio problem.

Under control panel, I have an icon "SigmaTel Audio". When I open this it
shows a dialog box with just 1 option "Allow reconfiguration Pop-Ups". When I
re-check this then all is fine again.

This explains why so little information seemed to be available about this.
It probably would be a fairly obscure issue, related to 1 particular audio
card. I had assumed it was a generic vista thing.

"cauliflower" wrote:

> When I plug in my headset (earpieces and microphone), it usually asks me to
> select "microphone" as my choice for the plugged in device. Earlier today, I
> hit "do not ask me this again" because I thought that it would accept that
> the only thing I ever plug into that port (the red part of the red/green
> audio section). What I wanted was to not be asked to choose every
> time....that I always wanted to select microphone. But now it's not asking
> me anything, and the microphone is not working. I've done all the microphone
> troubleshooting things...but can't figure out how to get the computer to
> start asking me again what device I want to use every time I plug in the
> headset. Any ideas?