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alefeb

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May 25th, 2013 00:00

microphone icon pop up

Hi!

Just bought inspiron 7520 SE r15 with win7.

Great machine, by the way.

Have one question:

in the bottom right corner, there appears a microphone icon (grey square with microphone pic inside) whenever I speak or there are loud sounds around.

Not like it bothers me much, but I'd like to know if I can turn that off somehow? Searched all of control panel - settings - task bar settings, nothing even remotely connected to it.

It might be connected to speech recognition, but couldn't find how to turn of this notification in there either.

Please help.

Thank you very much in advance.

DELL-Sundeep B

874 Posts

May 25th, 2013 04:00

Hi alefeb,

The Inspiron™ 7520/15R (SE) is shipped with the Conexant SmartAudio HD controller. You may follow the steps below to update the audio drivers :

  • Click on Start -> Control Panel -> Programs and Features -> Uninstall a Program
  • Uninstall the audio driver and restart the computer
  • Update the audio driver from Here follow the onscreen instructions and restart the computer when prompted.

If the issue persists go to control panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Sound

  • Click on 'Recording' tab and select the 'Microphone' and click on 'Properties'
  • Click on 'Listen' and make sure Listen to this device is unchecked
  • Click on 'Levels' and ensure the microphone volume is at maximum level and microphone boost is minimum.

Hope this helps.

jerry_zel

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June 28th, 2015 12:00

I am having the same issue. Microphone ICON keeps popping up in lower right corner, every minute or less, with volume being set to off.  This is a new issue.

I change the volume level to max in the microphone properties but when the ICON pops up the volume level is re-set to 0 with microphone set to off.

I did all of the above - reloaded the driver (same rev I had) and set all the levels as above BUT ICON keeps popping up in lower right hand comer.

This is a nuisance.

H E L P

jerry_zel

2 Posts

July 2nd, 2015 21:00

The above issue turned out to be a Trojan VBCRYPT virus using multiple hidden SVCHOST background processes. Problem resolved by running malwarebytes anti rootkit

TalRob

1 Message

June 23rd, 2016 07:00

Very helpful, Jerry...VERY helpful.

Thanks

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