Stereo Mix not appearing in your recording devices?

A friend had this issue last night where he couldn't find Stereo Mix in his recording devices. It's an issue I also had about a year ago and at that time, it took me some good googling before I could find the solution which turned out to be easy. Here it is.

This works on Vista and Windows 7. For XP, you have to make a registry tweak which I know nothing about (sorry!).

Right click the sound icon in the task bar > Recording devices > In the list, right click and select "Show Disabled Devices".


Voilà! If your computer supports it, you should now see "Stereo Mix" appear in your list!