I'm not sure what nag screen you're seeing. If your mic is truly disabled in Windows, hitting the F8 key would show this message and SR would never bug you when starting a recording:



Also, there wouldn't be any choices listed in either the Microphone or Input Device fields from the Preferences menu:



If I run SR on a device with a mic, I don't see any nag screen if the mic is enabled or disabled, so maybe share a screenshot so we can see what you're seeing. It actually sounds more like a Windows notification that an app is allowed to use your mic, and that can be turned off from Settings | System | Notifications

Here's a hastily made video to show what I'm getting. I didn't bother editing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CRZEXHWgsQ

I'm using a screen capture utility (Action!) to capture a screen capture utility.

Thanks for that clever screen-recording-app-recording-a-screen-recording-app workaround👍

I saw that "mic not set up" screen once on my Surface Book 3 when I was checking this issue, but I still didn't get any warning after starting recording. What happens if you first set up a mic rather than trying to force it out of existence? Choose anything from the drop-down menu and then set it to Off from Preferences. No need to change any sliders or do anything else - simply set it to Off.

If nothing shows up under the dropdown menu, make sure your whole audio chain is turned on and start at least one screen recording to verify that you don't get the pop-up screen. Then you can power it all down and see if SR behaves itself.

Quote Choose anything from the drop-down menu and then set it to Off from Preferences. No need to change any sliders or do anything else - simply set it to Off.

If nothing shows up under the dropdown menu, make sure your whole audio chain is turned on and start at least one screen recording to verify that you don't get the pop-up screen. Then you can power it all down and see if SR behaves itself.

Alas, I tried those things, also. No joy.

Sounds like you should contact CL tech support. Include a link to this discussion so they can see all the things you've tried so far.

I don't know if this is related in any way to your issue, but there's a new Screen Recorder version (4.3.0.19614) out now and you can install it using the CL App Manager (CAM).

Ricebug - See the screenshot. I don’t have your mixing board with the ASIO interface. You may want to change the Windows settings of the Input device from the Microphone to the Stereo Mix to avoid all those Microphone messages and popups. I had to change it though the audio driver as Windows keeps defaulting back to the microphone and the Stereo mix cannot and was never enabled through Windows settings.

I thought I answered this but apparently not. Anyways, tech support had me D/L an update to the Screen Recorder. It fixed the problem.