ISIS is losing this war

ISIS model's world is no fitting into the new world; and no one should accept this as a model for our daughter and children; how is that a good father will choose a slavery life for our very lovely daughter. 

People of the world we should unite to stop this evil people that dont follow that our Holy Koran told US about it

Updated by Zack Beauchamp on February 23, 2015, 9:30 a.m. ET 

If you want to understand what's happening in the Middle East today, you need to appreciate one fundamental fact: ISIS is losing its war for the Middle East.

This may seem hard to believe: in Iraq and Syria, the group still holds a stretch of territory larger than the United Kingdom, manned by a steady stream of foreign fighters. Fighters pledging themselves to ISIS recently executed 21 Christians in Libya.

It's certainly true that ISIS remains a terrible and urgent threat to the Middle East. The group is not on the verge of defeat, nor is its total destruction guaranteed. But, after months of ISIS expansion and victories, the group is now being beaten back. It is losing territory in the places that matter. Coalition airstrikes have hamstrung its ability to wage offensive war, and it has no friends to turn to for help. Its governance model is unsustainable and risks collapse in the long run.

Unless ISIS starts adapting, there's a very good chance its so-called caliphate is going to fall apart.

Believe it or not, Iraq is looking better than anyone could have hoped six months ago

Control of territory in Iraq as of February 2, 2015. (Institute for the Study of War/Sinan Adnan)

One year ago, ISIS was soon to launch the offensive in Iraq that, in June, would sweep across northern Iraq and conquer the country's second-largest city, Mosul. Today, the Iraqi government is prepping a counter-offensive aimed at seizing Mosul back, which the US believes will launch in April.

In that year, the situation has changed dramatically. After ISIS's seemingly unstoppable rampage from June to August of 2014, the Iraqi government and its allies have turned the tide. Slowly, unevenly, but surely, ISIS is being pushed back.

"There's really nowhere where [ISIS] has momentum," Kirk Sowell, the principal at Uticensis Risk Services and an expert on Iraqi politics, told me in late January.

"There are a significant string of [Iraqi] victories all along the northern river valley, up through Diyala and Salahuddin [two central Iraqi provinces]," Doug Ollivant, former National Security Advisor for Iraq from 2005-2009 and current managing partner at Mantid International, explained.

"THE ISLAMIC STATE ... WILL LOSE ITS BATTLE TO HOLD TERRITORY IN IRAQ"

In northern Iraq, Kurdish forces are threatening to cut off a highway that serves as ISIS's main supply line between Iraq and Syria. They took the town of Sinjar, which sits on the highway, in December; by late January, they had taken a longer stretch of the highway near a town calledKiske.

Ollivant describes much of the Kurdish progress in the north as a "circling around Mosul." Though the Kurds won't attempt to retake the city on their own, a joint Iraqi-Kurdish force is now poised to do so. Re-taking Mosul would be a major blow to ISIS.

To be clear, ISIS isn't on the retreat everywhere. "The news in [western province] Anbar is more mixed," Ollivant says. "Things are shifting, but not to anyone's particular advantage. The Iraqi government gains ground here, and loses ground there." In February, an ISIS offensive in Anbar threatened al-Asad airbase, where US troops are training Iraqi soldiers.

Still, ISIS is falling back in most places where it's facing a serious push. And Iraq watchers are starting to see ISIS's struggles as harbingers of a larger collapse.

"The Islamic State ... will lose its battle to hold territory in Iraq," Ollivant writes in War on the Rocks. "The outcome in Iraq is now clear to most serious analysts."

Sowell agrees. "There is no Islamic 'State' in Iraq. They're basically operating as an insurgency/mafia," he says. "They just don't have the ability, the wherewithal in Iraq to set up Sharia courts, patrol, and really govern a state."

ISIS is at a standstill in Syria

Kurdish fighters in Kobane. (Ahmet Sik/Getty Images)

Syria is a different story. ISIS has a firm hold on the Syrian city Raqqa and its environs; it's stronger there than it is anywhere in Iraq. No faction in Syria is in a position to challenge ISIS's core holdings, at least in the near term.

Still, ISIS's months of progress in Syria have stalled. And that bodes poorly for the group's long-term prospects.

By the end of January, ISIS had been driven out of Kobane, a Kurdish town in northern Syria that it had spent enormous amounts of manpower and resources trying to seize. Kobane isn't hugely important in strategic terms. But the fact that Kurdish forces pushed ISIS back there, with support from heavy American airstrikes, does matter.

"We can take [Kobane], to a limited extent, as a signal that the airstrikes are helping roll back or at least stop [ISIS] progress in Syria," says Sasha Gordon, an associate at the private research and consulting firm Caerus Associates, who tracks developments on the ground at Syria closely.

"A lot of [elite ISIS forces] might have been lost at Kobane," adds Yasir Abbas, another Caerus associate on the Syria desk.

And ISIS has failed to make major gains outside of Kobane. "If you start with the beginning of US airstrikes in late September," Gordon says, "you'll find that ISIS hasn't taken any territory to speak of, and in fact has been rolled back in areas."

Control of territory in Syria, as of February 15, 2015. (Thomas van Linge)

Though there have been some reports of ISIS advances in western Syria, "the territories they have gained are meaningless [or] they didn't get to keep them," Abbas explains.

"All of their major offensives since the airstrikes began — Kobane, [Deir ez-Zor] Air Base, Sha'ir Gas Field — have either been stalemates or ended in outright defeat once they squared off against Assad's troops," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told me in late January.

Part of the reason ISIS hasn't been pushed back further is that no other faction in Syria — Bashar al-Assad's regime, al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, or the major rebel groups — have concentrated their efforts on the Islamic State.

"Everyone in Syria sees [ISIS] as a secondary priority," Gordon says, "because it's so universally unpopular that destroying it is very easy to sell and easier to do than for the regime to defeat the opposition or vice versa."

This is good and bad news for ISIS. Syria's other major groups are all focused on one another. But, at some point, that's going to change, and when it does ISIS's situation will be much more difficult.

"Do I think [ISIS] is going to be around forever? I don't think so," Gordon concludes. "But I think it can limp along so long as there's no army to take care of it."

Why ISIS is being pushed back: they're outgunned, outnumbered, and friendless

A US airstrike near Kobane. (Kutluhan Cucel/Getty Images)

There are three simple reasons why ISIS is so weak in its supposed strongholds.

(1) Coalition airstrikes. No one expects airstrikes to collapse ISIS on their own. But they've been extraordinarily effective at blunting ISIS's ability to launch offensives in Iraq and Syria. Large masses of ISIS troops, required for such offensives, are really easy to target from the air.

"Their freedom of movement, even within their own territory [in Syria], has been significantly affected" by the strikes, Abbas says. "Before, they could send a group of elite fighters to al-Hasakah [in] the east, fight there for a couple of days, take territory then, and retreat and go and fight in Deir ez-Zor."

ISIS "relied heavily" on fast movement of elite forces for military success in both Iraq and Syria, according to Abbas. That tactic "has been taken away from them."

Moreover, US and allied air strikes have been effective at aiding ground operations against ISIS. This was most most obviously true in Kobane, where a barrage of US airstrikes was critical to the Kurdish defense's success. The strikes have also help enabled the Iraqi and Kurdish advances in Iraq.

(2) ISIS has lost the element of surprise. In conventional terms, ISIS is pretty badly outnumbered. The CIA estimates that ISIS has between 20,000 and 31,500 fighters; some private sector sources suggest that figure may be closer to 100,000. There are about 48,000 official Iraqi government soldiers, but they're buttressed by 100,000 to 120,000 Shia militiamen fighting on the government's side. The BBC reports that there are 190,000 Kurdish peshmerga in Iraq's north. And that's to say nothing of ISIS's enemies in Syria.

Now, ISIS has always been outnumbered, but had used quick surprise strikes to overwhelm its enemies. One reason ISIS managed to sweep northern Iraq last June, according to Ollivant, is that Iraqi forces were "misdeployed:" positioned in small units designed to deal with an insurgency, but vulnerable to ISIS's fast, massed vehicular assaults.

Peshmerga on their way to the Mosul Dam in August, celebrating progress against ISIS. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images)

Now, American airstrikes are hampering ISIS's ability to conduct fast advances, and ISIS's enemies have redeployed. That'll allow anti-ISIS forces to leverage their superior numbers.

ISIS might be able to deal with its numbers problem if it had allies. But it doesn't, and that's the third major problem:

(3) ISIS is congenitally incapable of making allies. The group's ideology demands total and absolute adherence to its narrow and extremist interpretation of Islamic law. In their view, nobody — including al-Qaeda — is sufficiently pure. This causes ISIS fighters to lash out at people and groups who would otherwise be allies, making any alliances that ISIS forms temporary at best.

This is most pronounced in Syria: unlike Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda franchise, ISIS has had a tough time cooperating with other rebel factions against the Assad regime, and indeed has clashed with every major faction in Syria at one point or another. In a civil war defined by the fact that no one group can overpower another, ISIS's isolation puts it at serious risk.

This is part of why ISIS "is in a much worse situation" than it was several months ago, says Joshua Landis, Director of the University of Oklahoma's Center for Middle East Studies.

"Had they just taken this large Sunni tribal region from the edge of Baghdad all the way to Aleppo, they might have been able to keep it," Landis says. "If ISIS had kept its head down, and not had such an expansive revolutionary ideology to reconquer the entire Middle East and to take on all of the crusader states, it could have been left alone by the international community."

ISIS's self-destructive ideology is its greatest weakness

ISIS's so-called "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Al-Furqan Media/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

ISIS has staked its entire political project on one theory: they are the true revival of the early Islamic caliphate, destined not only to maintain and expand their theocratic state but to bring on the apocalypse. Once you understand that, ISIS's blunders look less like miscalculations and more like inevitable results of its animating ideology.

"When they declared the caliphate, their legitimacy came to rest on the continuing viability of their state," Gartenstein-Ross told me in October.

More rational insurgent groups, facing a conventionally stronger foe, have a well-established playbook. Stay away from open engagements, hide among a population that's willing to shelter you, and use hit-and-run attacks to bleed the enemy to death.

The Taliban, for example, responded to the 2001 US-led invasion by giving up its state and becoming a highly durable insurgency, one that is now resurgent in Afghanistan. But ISIS so far insists on maintaining its state — even if that means fighting battles it is likely to lose against more powerful enemies. More than that, even, the group's ideology demands that it continue expanding, exposing its vulnerabilities even further.

"To be the caliph, one must meet conditions outlined in Sunni law," Graeme Wood explains in an excellent Atlantic feature on ISIS's theology. One condition is that "the caliph have territory in which he can enforce Islamic law." Once the caliphate is established, "the waging of war to expand the caliphate is an essential duty of the caliph." Everything we know about ISIS suggests its members earnestly believe this — including leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

When ISIS does something obviously shortsighted, such as deciding to invade Iraqi Kurdistan and start a losing war with the previously uninvolved Kurds, that's their ideology. They believe they need to expand territory, and that God will ensure that they do in the end.

So ISIS troops will remain out in the open, making them vulnerable to American and coalition bombs. They'll engage in conventional fights with superior enemies, because they need to keep them out of ISIS territory. And they'll continue attacking neutral parties or potential partners, because they hold territory that ISIS wants.

The deeper problems that gave rise to ISIS will be around for some time

Unidentified Iraqi militants in January 2014. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)

All of these factors have put ISIS on the path to major losses, but that doesn't make the group's complete destruction inevitable, much less quick or painless. And there's no reason to believe that ISIS's defeat would solve the underlying problems that led to its rise, and will continue to plague Iraq and Syria for some time.

Even if Iraqi troops manage to topple ISIS in their country — which isn't guaranteed, and would take months or years of difficult fighting — the group's individual fighters could reform as yet another Sunni insurgency. ISIS, after all, is in many ways just one chapter in the Iraqi sectarian war that began in 2003, and it might not be the last one.

Syria is in even worse shape. Though ISIS is stalled there, it will likely have a safe haven for as long the Syrian civil war remains divided between several competing factions. Decisively addressing the factors that allowed ISIS's rise in Syria means ending both the civil war and the sectarianism that Bashar al-Assad cultivated since it began; those problems could be with us for generations.

In the short term, ISIS's setbacks in Syria have had the perverse effect of primarily benefitting not ordinary Syrians but rather al-Qaeda, ISIS's main competitor there for the mantle of Sunni extremism. As ISIS has retreated, the al-Qaeda franchise Jabhat al-Nusra has advanced, standing to gain both territory and recruits.

That even the rollback of ISIS could come with such terrible consequences is a testament to just how bad things are in Iraq and, especially, Syria. Even still, ISIS is perhaps the world's most vicious and inhumane militant group. That it is slowly losing its grip on its territory — and, with it, its ability to murder and torment the people of the Middle East — is worth appreciating

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Burn a CD or DVD from an ISO file

An ISO file, also called a disc image, is a single file that’s a copy of an entire data CD or DVD. When you burn a CD or DVD from an ISO file, the new disc has the same folders, files, and properties as the original disc. The most common way to get an ISO file is to download it from a website. For example, you might download and then use an ISO file to update software on your computer.

You can burn a disc image file, which often has either an .iso or .img file name extension, to a recordable CD or DVD by using Windows Disc Image Burner. Whether you can burn it to a recordable CD, DVD, or Blu‑ray Disc depends on your disc burner and the type of discs it can burn, the size of the disc image file, as well as the device on which you plan to use the disc.

1. Insert a recordable CD, DVD, or Blu‑ray Disc into your disc burner.
2. Open Computer by clicking the Start button , and then clicking Computer.
3. In Windows Explorer, find the disc image file, and then double-click it.
4. If you have more than one disc burner, from the Disc burner list in Windows Disc Image Burner, click the burner that you want to use.
5. (Optional) If you want to verify that the disc image was burned correctly to the disc, select the Verify disc after burningcheck box.
   If the integrity of disc image file is critical (for example, the disc image file contains a firmware update), you should select this check box.
6. Click Burn to burn the disc.

Notes

• If a third-party CD or DVD burning program is installed on your computer, that program might open when you double-click the disc image file. If this happens, and you want to use Windows Disc Image Burner to burn the CD or DVD from the disc image file instead, right-click the disc image file, and then click Burn disc image.
• You can't create disc image files using Windows Disc Image Burner. To create a disc image file, you need to install and use a third-party CD or DVD burning program or other program that lets you create disc image files from a CD or DVD.

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Smith key to driver safe and better

5 key

Key 1 . Aim high.

Forward Motion

Let drivers ahead telegraph information to you. Sometimes their actions or brake lights

can be warnings of a problem ahead which may not yet be visible to you.

Look ahead to where your vehicle will be in 15 seconds.

Keep your eyes aimed up high – you will see everything below.

Identify potential road hazards while there is still ample time to take evasive action if

necessary

Most drivers only have 3 to 6 second eye lead time – how about you, test yourself when

you get on the road.

Tailgaters are “low aim drivers” – the only thing they can see are the taillights ahead of

them which causes last second decision making

Keep your eyes aimed high around turns and curves. Be aware of where you are turning

before committing to the turn. Low Aim Driver Habits:

Hug one side of traffic lane

Swing wide to avoid parked vehicles

Over steer, swing wide in turns and curves.

Provide a choppy, jerky ride.

Are surprised by events and obstacles ahead.

High aim steering and 15 second eye lead time are habits that can’t be formed without practice. You’ll be able to evaluate information sooner and drive safer!

Backing Motion

Avoid backing period.

If backing is the only option “Aim High In Steering” by :

Scan the backing area and its surroundings

Identify potentially hazardous objects

Do not allow your eyes to dwell on the closest objects while overlooking

those at a slightly greater distance.

Watch for any changes in your surroundings as you approach the stopping

point

Key 2 big picture.

Forward Motion

The “Big Picture” involves using your eyes to create a 360 degree circle around the

vehicle.

To obtain the “Big Picture”, we need to check our mirrors often – every 5 to 8 seconds or

more.

Avoid vision barriers! Maintain proper following distance – 4 seconds (minimum) behind

the vehicle ahead of you. Increase distance when you have poor visibility or as weather

dictates.

To calculate the 4 second rule find a stationary object ahead. As the vehicle ahead

passes that object count 1001, 1002, 1003, and 1004. When you have counted 1004, you

should be passing that object.

Avoid a fixed stare – staring will rob you of your big picture.

Distractions take away your big picture. Avoid your distractions and avoid others that are

distracted.

Backing Motion

Avoid backing period.

If backing is the only option, get the “Big Picture” by:

G.O.A.L.- Get Out And Look if unsure of conditions in blind areas.

Look for any animate or inanimate objects that could be potentially

dangerous.

Back upon arrival instead of departure.

If possible obtain assistance backing from another person.

Key 3 keep your eyes moving

Forward Motion

In order to “Get the Big Picture” we must keep our eyes moving to activate our full visual potential.

We have 2 types of vision: Central and Peripheral.

Central vision is the 3 degrees of vision we actually focus with. You read with your

central vision.

Peripheral Vision is about 180 degrees around you. While it is not in sharp focus, it picks

up color, movement and light. It is your early warning system while driving.

Don’t get in to a stare – it will rob you of your early warning system. Don’t stare at

anything more than 2 seconds.

Before going through an intersection, look left, right and left again to ensure it is safe to

proceed. Look left first!

Observe objects in quick glances – move your eyes every 2 seconds to increase

awareness to the brain

Backing Motion

Avoid backing period.

If backing is the only option, “Keep Your Eyes Moving” by:

Scanning the entire area in quick glances with your central vision. This expands the peripheral vision and allows more information to be collected.

Avoiding turning while backing. Turning simultaneously causes the front end of the vehicle to move laterally.

Backing the vehicle slowly while your eyes move rapidly. If someone or something intrudes the “Big Picture”, slow backing allows time to react.

Recognizing and avoiding drivers who seem distracted.

Key 4 leave yourself an out

Forward Motion

Build a “Space Cushion” around your vehicle, to the front, rear and sides. Surround your vehicle with space!

Avoid traveling in clusters. Clusters are unsafe because they limit your options. If one makes a mistake the whole cluster suffers.

When stopped behind another vehicle, stay at least 1 car length (15ft) back. This cushion allows room if struck from behind.

When stopped at an intersection, stay back at least 1 car length (15ft) back. If rear ended this affords a buffer zone from being pushed into the middle of the intersection.

Anticipate the actions of others. Decide what they may do and what you will do in response.

On streets with parked cars, avoid traveling in the right lane. This keeps the right side of space cushion closed.

Backing Motion

Avoid backing period

If backing is the only option, “Leave Yourself an Out” by:

Select a parking spot with the fewest threats.

Your “Space Cushion” will protect your vehicle if hazards are nearby.

When backing, back no further than you must. Allow room for entrance into the

back of the vehicle.

When backing along a curb side, position your vehicle at a practical distance from

the parked vehicle.

When exiting from a backed in parking spot, NEVER CUT THE WHEEL TOO

SHARPLY prior to exiting parking spot. Pull forward, and once both sides of vehicle is clear, then proceed with turning. Leave Yourself a Safe Out!

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Preventing Attacks

What can individual sites do to protect themselvesfrom DDoS attacks?

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They can also route incoming traffic through a reputable third-party service that provides distributed caching to help filter out malicious traffic -- reducing the strain on existing web servers. Most such services require a paid subscription, but often cost less than scaling up your own server capacity to deal with a DDoS attack.

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How to defeat a computer - A lesson from history

The domination of computers over the world’s greatest chess players has ramifications that extend far beyond chess.  Indeed, Stephen Hawking recently remarked that artificial intelligence could spell the end for human kind.

The modern human brain is the result of six million years of evolution.  In the natural world it has an unrivalled working memory.  However, it can’t hope to compete against a computer.  Computers were, after all, invented to do things we can’t.  When it comes to battling against computers in a chess match, humans are no longer competitive.  In the game as it currently stands.
Maybe chess players could look at other sports for inspiration.  When Manchester United played the great Barcelona side of a few years ago, manager Alex Ferguson knew that he couldn’t hope to out pass the opposition.  So he adapted his game plan.  Similarly, chess players would have more chance of success if they played to their brains’ strengths.
Around 1.8 million years ago, our hunter gatherer ancestors endured a period of climate changes.  Many species, including Neanderthal man, became extinct. And yet we emerged thriving.  Why?  Because our brains can adapt to the environment around them.  This is still beyond modern computers.
So how does this help human chess players beat computers?  Well under the game’s current format it doesn’t.  It’s never going to happen.  We need to petition FIDE to come up with a blue print for an alternative.  A format which gives the advantage to human players.
If an alternative format was introduced that was more reliant on creative insight and adaptability than logic and planning, human players would hold the upper hand.  Examples of this could be:

• Removing a piece at random (The computer would know if this was planned for)
• Swapping sides (This would test adaptability)
• Changing the object of a game part way through (For instance, instead of checkmate, taking the opponent’s Queen)

We’d need to keep the existing game too of course.
Imagine the implications of having two forms of chess.  A chess Ryder Cup with the greatest humans battling against the top computers would be a historic event.  In many ways it would be bigger than the Olympics or football World Cup.  Both formats could be used, with the team that accumulates the most points overall coming out victorious.



Garry Kasparov was on top against Deep blue in 1997. He was thrown by the computer’s fail safe move, which made him think the computer was the better player.  He then went on to lose the match.  This is an example of the brain adapting to the circumstances, and could just as easily work the other way.  If just one human achieved success, the rest of the team would believe they could win.  This would rewire their brains, and the poor old computer would be none the wiser.
Until the day comes when computers have full artificial intelligence, they can be outwitted.  It has happened before.  Neanderthals are thought to have had larger brains.  It is therefore quite possible that they had a larger working memory too.  In the end they lost out, because they couldn’t adapt to changing circumstances.
If FIDE introduced an alternative format with the kind of rule changes  listed above, the chess playing community would have to have their say.  What do you think?  Is an alternative format a good idea, or would it bring the game into chaos?     What changes would you make?  Who would make your chess Ryder Cup team?  Have your say in the comments.



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No Sound: There is no sound for the captured streaming video

How to record sound in Windows XP - Stereo Mix

» How to record sound in Windows XP
» How to record sound in Windows Vista/7/8

If there is no sound for the captured video in Windows XP, it's usually the "Stereo Mix" setting problem.



Depending on the user’s settings, audio cannot be recorded (or volume of the recorded sound is too low). In such cases, the following adjustments in the settings need to be made.

1. Select the 'Open volume control' option in the system tray and run the 'Volume control' window.

If there is no 'Open volume control' option in the system tray, you can run the 'Volume control' window by clicking Window start > Setting > Control panel > Sound and audio devices.

2. Select the 'Properties' from the 'Volume control' window.

3. Select the 'Recording' icon from the 'Properties' window, and then check the 'Stereo Mix' button.

• If there is no "Stereo Mix' option, you can check 'Wake output mix', 'What U hear, 'Stereo out', 'Mixed output', 'Post-mix', 'Loop back', 'SUM' and the like.
• If you can't check "Recording" icon, you should change the "Mixer device" at the top of the 'Properties' (number 1)

4. If there is the 'Mute" check-box instead of the 'Select' check-box, the box needs to be unchecked.

5. If you set the stereo mix setting properly, you may see the sound bar when recording.

** Tip

1) If you still can't record the sound, change the sound device of Bandicam


2) Do not choose 'USB sound card' or 'USB headset' in Windows XP.
If you use Windows Vista/7/8, you can record computer sounds with the USB headset/sound device. However, If you use Windows XP, you can't record computer sounds with the USB headset/sound device.

How to record sound in Windows Vista/7/8 - Speakers

» How to record sound in Windows XP
» How to record sound in Windows Vista/7/8

If there is no sound for the captured streaming video in Windows Vista/7/8, it's the setting problem.

1. Bandicam settings

Go to the sound setting menu of Bandicam, and select "Win Vista/7/8 Sound (WASAPI)" in Primary Sound Device.

2. Windows settings

Go to the sound setting menu of Windows, and set the 'Speakers (or Headphones)' as the default sound device.

3. If you set the 'Speakers' properly, you may see the sound bar when recording.

** Tip

1) If you can't see the "Win7 Sound (WASAPI)" option, it may be a compatibility problem.

• Right-click on the Bandicam icon > Properties > Compatibility > and then uncheck "Run this program in compatibility mode for:" If you uncheck it, you can see the "Win7 Sound (WASAPI)" option.

2) If you can't record sounds with "Win Vista/7/8 Sound (WASAPI)", try "Stereo Mix"

• Go to the "Recording" tab of Windows, and click "Show Disabled Devices (No. 1)", and then click "Enable (No. 2)."
• Start Bandicam, and click the "Settings" button under the Video tab, and then choose "Stereo Mix (No. 3)" in Primary Sound Device

Related FAQs

• How to record voice from the microphone (Microphone Problem)
• How to record "computer sound" and "your voice" at the same time
• How to remove microphone noise/howling/robot/echo sound

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