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USB Microphone Shows Up in Device Manager, but not Windows Sound -> Recording

I have a blue snowball usb microphone, and it shows up in device manager under "Sound, video, and game controllers". However, when I go to the sound control panel, under the "Recording&...
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Disable horizontal (left/right) mouse input during specific key press (toggle) or key hold

In Windows 10, I am looking for a way to disable any input from my mouse's movement in the horizontal or left/right direction while still allowing the input in the vertical or up/down direction to be ...
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Keyboard/mouse undetected after installing Windows 10

Afterwards, I installed Windows 10 (over Windows 7) on my SSD. First start was ok, keyboard and mouse were working fine. I shut it down and came back hours later to discover that I cannot input ...
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My mouse will periodically "pause" when plugged into a USB hub

This is a weird one, and I can't track down where to look. When I have a mouse plugged into a hub, it will pause/freeze/hang for about a second every 30 seconds or so. Moving, scrolling and clicking ...
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Windows inserts additional characters when pressing a key

Since two reboots ago, Windows enters a backslash in front of every zero I type on the number row, like so: /0. This does not happen when using the numpad. Similarly, when hitting Enter on the numpad,...
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Pen input isn't correct working after 1709 Fall Creator Update

After the Windows 1709 Fall Creator Update the behavior of my surface pen has changed. It seems that the Digital Pen input is interpreted as touch instead of mouse click. I checked the battery of my ...
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Program to use an Xbox controller as a mouse [closed]

I recently bought an Xbox 360 controller for my computer (those things are really cheap now that the new Xbox is the norm) and I was trying to figure out if there was a way to use the controller as a ...
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Is there a way to disable automatic movement of the pen input window?

I am using a Microsoft Surface 3 with the newer Surface Pen. When using the pen input window, it moves around of it's own accord. It's clearly intended to be "helpful" by moving itself where it thinks ...
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Windows doesn't switch audio inputs automatically

I upgraded my PC a while back and changed the motherboard. I have a pair of speaker connected from the back of my PC and they work fine. The problem is that when I connect my headphones, the system ...
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