For some reason the driver on my Creative X-Fi sound card disables the 'Microphone +20dB Boost' option after every reboot. I wrote a script to automatically enable it every time the system boots up.
var WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell"); WshShell.Run("Control.exe mmsys.cpl,@0,1") WScript.Sleep(100); WScript.Sleep(100); WshShell.SendKeys("{RIGHT}"); WshShell.SendKeys("%{P}"); WScript.Sleep(100); WshShell.SendKeys("+{TAB}"); WshShell.SendKeys("{RIGHT}"); WshShell.SendKeys("{TAB}"); WshShell.SendKeys(" "); WshShell.SendKeys("~"); WshShell.SendKeys("~");Save this script as micboost.js, or download it here. Drag the file into your Start->All Programs->Startup directory. This should work on Vista and 7, but probably not on previous versions of Windows.
18:30 PST - May 14, 2011