Microphone listening delay

My PC just died which had XP Home installed, and I have never had a problem recording with my microphone such as for recording karaoke. So since my computer has died, I've had to install my karaoke programs on my father's laptop/notebook. This lappy has Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit installed. ...

Hey, so I get this half second (or something) delay whenever I speak into the microphone. I can't record or use softwares like Skype because it's too much of a distraction! Anyone else had/have this problem? Any solution?

I have a laptop running windows 7 (the brand is " Capital" but you might not know it) Anyway, the audio driver is realtek, and so far everything works perfect, except that when using a microphone, the output is delayed by about 1 second (which is pretty much especially if u try karaoke....) I...

I purchased an HP p6340f with a Realtek integrated soundcard. I use the system for online Karaoke and the soundcard was working poorly. I upgraded to a Creative PCI Express Extreme Audio SoundBlaster card and have been experiencing a .5 sec delay on voice to speaker, even when I am off...

Hi there. Im running Windows 7 Professional x86 final on this machine: athlon x2 5.000+ 2x2gb ddr800 dual-channel memory ati radeon hd 4650 512mb 128bits 500g sata hd The os is updated and all the settings of the os are on default. The settings of videocard are in performance/balanced.