Try using Audacity from http://audacity.sourceforge.org.

Dale

"Adrian" <Adrian@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My old computer running 98SE has a very functional Windows Sound Recorder.
> The Vista recorder on my new computer does nothing but record--no
> inserting,
> mixing, echo, etc. Is there any way to transfer the old recorder to the
> new
> computer running Vista?