ian said:
The window that opens for the sound recorder is too small, it does
not show the record buttons. The max screen option is not in place
and the window will not resize.
In Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices, on the Voice tab along the top,
do you have anything in the "Voice Recording" section in the middle, or is
it greyed-out/unavailable? If so, it'd make sense that Sound Recorder
wouldn't enable its record button if Windows doesn't know of any way of
feeding an input to it.
Being unable to resize the app and its having no maximise button is normal.