Mic Jack as Line-In

My laptop doesn't have a line-in jack. It does, however, have a microphone jack.
And I've heard that you can make it so your computer recognizes your mic jack as a line-in jack.
Does anybody know how to do this?

If your laptop will allow it, then the audio driver will have the settings to do so. Some are even auto-sensing, but I would check the driver's program first.

On my tower, the Realtek sound let's you specifiy what port is what.

how do I open up whatever thing I need to get into to change it?

That all depends on what type of audio card you have, and if it has a program associated with it. That's way too general of a question to answer. You'd likely see something on the control panel, the system tray, start menu list of programs...etc.

So if I don't have a specific program for it, is there one I can download somewhere?

No, it would have to be included with your audio driver. Did you read somewhere that your mic-in can't be a line-in? Have you tried it? Did you look through Windows' audio settings?

Yeah, I've done all that. Not working.

Make and full model number of the laptop?

stormy13 said:

Make and full model number of the laptop?

It's a Gateway.
The model number as printed on the bottom is:
NELA0

Almost but not quite. That number leads here,

ENERGY STAR

which shows it to be from the ID49C series, which in turn leads here,

Gateway Support - ID49C Gateway ID49C Notebook Series

Let's start with the basics. The audio driver installed and not using the default Windows driver? If not,

Conexant Audio Driver Version 4.121.0.50

also if the driver isn't installed then you won't see an option like this in the Windows recording properties,