XP has a built-in sound recorder that you can use to make .MP3, .WAV, etc, files from a microphone. This is especially useful when recording a voice track for a song, or a bit of talking; such as reading a limerick or an audible greeting.

It can be called up via the command line; but to save time and hassle, plus remembering the command to use when you need it, you can put an icon on your desktop which you just click when you need it

How to make an icon to click ( in XP.):

Right-click on a blank area of your desktop (Where there are no icons.) and mouse-over “New” in the box that appears. Click “Shortcut”. Another box appears asking you to type the location of the item: Enter in the full command:

“sndrec32”

and click next.

It now asks you to type a name for this shortcut: I named mine “Sound Recorder”; because that’s exactly what it is.

Click next, the box vanishes, and a loudspeaker icon appears on your desktop.

Now let’s put a volume control icon on the desktop too: Clicking this has the same effect as double-clicking the little loudspeaker icon in your system-tray; but it’s much more handy to have it on the desktop.

As before; right-click on a blank area of your desktop (Where there are no icons.) and mouse-over “New” in the box that appears. Click “Shortcut”. Another box appears asking you to type the location of the item: Enter in the full command:

“sndvol32”

and click next.

It now asks you to type a name for this shortcut: I named mine “Volume Control”; once again because that’s exactly what it is.

Click next, the box vanishes, and an icon appears on your desktop. – Thus:

- Target neutralised.

The procedure for creating the volume control icon applies also to Windows 7 (RC). The sound recorder icon is created in a very similar manner in Win 7, except that rather than just typing “sndrec32″ when creating the shortcut; you type in “%systemroot%\Windows\System32\SoundRecorder.exe”, where %systemroot% is your system’s root directory. (Usually C:)

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