In Control Panel|Sound|Recording it lists 1 mic which is supposed to be the one its listening to. It lists the wrong one.
If my external mic is not plugged in and I pull up Sound|Recording it shows the internal and if I tap on it it shows sound level. If I plug in the external, reopen Sound|Recording, it still only shows internal but it's listening to the external (I can tell by tapping and seeing which causes a response). If I just open and close the win Sound Recorder program and then reopen Sound|Recording then it still lists just 1 but the right one, the external and shows it working. The mic works and records fine but when I use Dragon Naturally Speaking it doesn't think the mic is there unless I first run Sound Recorder, probably because win is confused and reporting the wrong thing when Dragon queries.
Whatever Sound Recorder is doing to either initialize the mic or at least properly detect, and thereby cause win to also properly detect, needs to also get triggered when the external mic is plugged in and win seems to know enough to switch to using it, but win doesn't update its list of current active mic. Anybody seen this error or have a solution?