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Okay vista fans in order to get this to work, your going to have to do a few things first.

Firstly go to you start menu, click control panel, on the left and side will be an option that says classic view; click it, on the left find the option that says sound, click the tab that says recording, now if your sound card doesn't show up don't fret, right click in the white space, click the option that says "show disabled devices," right click on your sound card, click enable, now click properties, click the levels tab, and turn the volume up (not to high as sound quality will decrease)

Now open audacity, click the edit tab, go to preferences, the first section you see will be Audio/IO, on the far top left will be recording, in the drop down box select your sound card, in version 1.3 beneath the devices drop box will be the recording drop box, it should already be set at stereo, for version 1.2 cancel out of preferences, and go to the drop box that the first tutorial instructed you to click and choose stereo. With any luck you just got it to work. good luck my vista peeps