How do you get the microphone to work on Audacity?

I just downloaded Audacity today and for some reason it won't allow me to record. I downloaded the right version (I have vista) but it keeps saying:



"Error while opening sound device. Please input the device settings and project the sample rate."



I have no idea what is wrong because I can record fine with Windows Sound Recorder.



Thanks in advance.How do you get the microphone to work on Audacity?
go to edit-%26gt;preferences. on "audio i/o" tab, select the playback and recording device. if you have many options, just try each one of them.



go to "quality" tab, select 44100 for "default sample rate"



the problem should be the audio i/o selection.