If dust and the port contact points were not the root-cause of your problem, pursue the following troubleshooting solutions. Check your microphone or headsets, inspect the cord for any traces of physical damage that might prevent the mic from working properly. If they’re damaged in any way, that could explain why you computer keeps saying the microphone is not plugged in. Check the contact points of the microphone port.
Use a can of compressed air and dust off your computer jack and USB ports. Make sure there are no specks of dust inside your microphone jack or the USB port you’re using for connecting your USB microphone to your computer.
Sorry for the rant at Microsoft, I hope the OP gets their problem fixed.Tip 1. That could be the problem the OP (original poster) here had. There's also driver issues with soundcards / microphones that are causing other people problems, I don't want to dismiss that. Many people don't use a mic/webcam daily so those people will discover a few weeks / months later that theirs aren't working and wonder why. My point is, this new Privacy setting caused alot of problems for alot of people. For every 1 person that posts a question there's probably many more who didn't want to sign up and post a question. If you look at that, you'll see alot of activity right after the new Win update. I even did a "roll back" on my laptop to make sure webcam worked on the old Windows, it did. I think that was about 48 hours after the update was released. It left me (and I'm sure 1000's of others) scrambling for several days trying to figure out what was wrong. In my opinion, if they were going to do this on purpose (for security reasons), I think they should have provided a huge notice of warning to users that their mics & cams would be blocked by default in the Privacy settings. I don't know if it was deliberately set to block webcams and mics or not, but it does so by default after the update.
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