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Hi, internal microphone used to work OK but now its functioning but not picking up my voice, it gives the impression its "listening" to something else, a skype test just returns "background" noises, I dont think its a garbled version of my speech as the sound bars do not fluctuate in line with me shouting abuse at it. Any ideas?
(tried borrowing external mic, worked fine)
(Win 8.1)

Bill, thanks for that info. I don't think I would ever expect to get any support from Adobe on these programs, since I stopped buying revisions after CS4. I was surprised that I was even able to successfully install the CS4 Web suite onto Win 8.0, and Win 8.1 probably adds another couple hundred million lines of redundant code from our friends in Bill Gates-Land.
However, my A-Pro9 problem did resolve unexpectedly! I tried opening all the suite's programs, one at a time, and then Acrobat, with no luck. Then I realized that the suite had installed both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Photoshop (I use the 64-bit version) onto my new 64-bit computer. So, when I opened the *32-bit Photoshop* for a minute, closed it, and re-opened Acrobat 9, it went back to working normally. I'll take it!
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