Windows Media Player
If on such Windows applications like Notepad or Paint may still be some practical use, the built-in program audio is so primitive that benefit from it whatsoever. An important component in the sound recording with sound card mixer is Windows. If musical composition roars from the speakers and the program audio recording silence or faint crackling, then you have incorrectly set the recording source. Recording source is set to audio mixer. In Windows 9x for Call mixer must click on the icon with the image of the speaker on the taskbar.
In Windows xp, things get interesting. To open a standard mixer, open the Control Panel, select it and click sounds audio, in the opened window, select the Audio tab, and under Sound Recording click the Volume. By default, the mixer does not display all the sources of record. If recording from a microphone or line input you need choose options with the same name, then to record sound, played back through Windows Media Player, to use a group of Sound and recording with some of the programs you need the group overall record. By default, this group is not visible, it need to open using the menu command Options-> Properties.
The mixer also allows you to set the level of 'volume' recorded signal. Programs recording quite a lot. Only one site, I counted about fifty. There is no point in trying to consider all the recording software. For comparison, I chose two: one free and one shareware. Both programs received the highest rating on the site where I found them.