Windows 7...why?

DeaconFrost said:

lehnerus2000, when I said the dials and knobs can be positioned anywhere, I meant that they are physically positioned anywhere before you buy...so if you drive one car, then get into another, everything aside from the wheel and pedals is different. Yes, it is a physical product, but it is still a user interface. The first thing you learn in a UI class is that UI's aren't only relegated to the digital world. We're going round and round and going off topic, though....even if it is an interesting debate.

Fair enough.

I've never heard of a production car that allows you to reposition the accessories (not without visiting the workshop).
I have seen pictures of concept cars that are reconfigurable (to a limited extent).
Car analogies (almost always) fail when applied to computers.

I never meant to suggest that UIs were limited to electronic devices.

Dodgy UIs have contributed to various disasters (e.g. Three Mile Island).
From Wikipedia:

"The mechanical failures were compounded by the initial failure of plant operators to recognize the situation as a loss-of-coolant accident due to inadequate training and human factors, such as human-computer interaction design oversights relating to ambiguous control room indicators in the power plant's user interface. In particular, a hidden indicator light led to an operator manually overriding the automatic emergency cooling system of the reactor because the operator mistakenly believed that there was too much coolant water present in the reactor and causing the steam pressure release."

My point is that physical UIs are constrained (e.g. materials, space/volume, regulations, weight).
Virtual UIs (OS GUIs) have almost no restrictions (e.g. only host system performance matters - processing and storage capability).
These reasons are why airliners use computer displays, instead of (or in addition to) traditional gauges/lights.

Linux demonstrates that there are no real reasons why an OS can't support multiple UIs.
That causes other problems though.

Since Linux GUIs aren't developed by multi-billion dollar companies (in general).
MS has no real excuses, for its inability to provide options, other than they think there will be no ROI.

Rewarding "Customer Loyalty", is considered "bad" business practice these days.

What program are you using for the online streaming?

For example, I have Firefox set to ask me, which program I want to use for listening to sound.
You could set it to use Audacity and see if Audacity will then record the sound.

You are talking about "Stereo Mix" are you not? That completely depends on the sound card you have and whether the manufacture of that sound card has provided drivers with stereo mix capability. It appears you are using the generic HD Audio drivers which provides just basic features.

For example I have stereo mix on my computer because the drivers for my sound card support that capability.

You are missing the drivers for your sound card. Even then however it is not guaranteed they will support stereo mix. That feature is provided at the discretion of the manufacture of your sound card.

You'll probably need: http://www.abyssmedia.com/isound7/