Microphone output sound delay

Hello,
I'm a musician. Often, I plug my headphones into my laptop and listen to music. Then I plug my guitar in the microphone jack and enable the microphone sound output so I can play along with the music on my laptop. In other words, I use the laptop as a mixer.
Now with Windows 7 RC x64, the mic in output has quite some delay, between 0.5 and 1 second. The laptop is an HP 2510p with ADI SoundMax HD integrated audio.
With Windows XP, this has not been an issue.
The driver is the one that Win7 automatically got via Windows Update. I also tried the Vista x64 driver provided by HP, no difference.
As you can imagine, such a delay makes playing along songs impossible. When I strike the guitar, half a second later I hear it from the speakers.
Is there any suggestion what I could try? Change settings, regkeys, drivers?
Best regards,
Jay

Hi everyone,
Thanks so much for your input! I solved this problem on my laptop... I signed up to this website just to write about how I went about solving this issue in hopes that I can help even one musician out there in the world... I literally could not record for
about a year and had almost given up on this issue :(
Also, I should note that Priestest's solution is probably the one you want to try first. I only went about it another way because I encountered the same issue as VietTrung:
"The "sound" window should still be open, then go to "playback" tab,right click on speakers and left click on properties. Then click on the "levels" tab, but I
don't see any microphone section! Help me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(("
Me too. I'm not sure why I couldn't see the microphone section in the levels tab, but when I did a search online, I found this:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70822&selectarea=SUPPORT&tempselected=5 Pretty interesting read. If you are curious, query for "MIGR-70822" online to find out more about this issue.
---- My solution -----
I am using a recording software by the name of Reaper (I'm thinking other softwares may work too, I haven't tried Audacity but that's the most my friends use). I went to Options> Preferences > Audio > Devices > and Selected "ASIO" for my driver.
The default option selected was "WaveOut" which gave me a HUGE DELAY.
It gave me no ASIO drivers are found! But a quick search online will tell you you can download ASIO4all. Restart Reaper and go back to Devices menu to select ASIO.
If you are still having problems after selecting ASIO, I highly recommend this forum:
http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=21590 (look at Diogene's post please)
--- Results ---
There was a huge difference between "WaveOut" and "ASIO" and I can record now.
I really hope that helps some musicians out there in the world. Recording is a huge motivation to improve your skills :)
References:
ASIO4all: http://www.asio4all.com/

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