Recent content by dmd0705

This is the fix: Open Control Panel, select Sound. Go to Recording tab and double click your microphone. Under Advanced tab uncheck Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device. Click Apply and OK to save changes. Very simple, yet it took me weeks of Google searches to find it.

It's only Skype, and I turned off global hotkeys and it's still doing that. I don't know where to find out why the Alt key alone is causing the huge volume decrease. The Alt key usually requires another key to be a hotkey, but this is when only the Alt key is held down. As soon as the Alt key...

When I hold down the alt key while talking to someone on Skype, the volume drops so they can barely hear me. As soon as the alt key is released, the sound is fine.

Maybe I didn't express myself well. I don't want to share my calendar with anyone but myself. I have two laptops and I would like my Outlook 2007 calendar to be identical on both of them. So far, the only way I've found to do that is to save a backup file then use my home network and import...

I want a calendar that I can install on my computer so that if my internet goes down for any reason, that I can still access my calendar, and as important, one that I can sync between two computers.

I have Office 2007 and two computers, one with Windows 8.1 and the other with Windows 10. Is there any way to sync my Outlook 2007 calendar between the two computers? It takes too much time to save the .pst to Google Drive or to a flash drive and import it. Is there any free software that does...

I tried everything, but it magically fixed itself today and a few hours ago I added an update to my post mentioning that. Thanks for the help!

Last night, my headset mic was fine. Today, it's barely functioning. In audio manager, it's set as default, but when I say "hello" loudly, there is only one little green bar, yet the built-in laptop mic is getting many green bars. I normally have it plugged into the extra USB port on my...