Microphone- how to mute playback in windows 7?

[evident]

Windoze 7 Professional
X-Fi Elite Pro

This seems like a really dumb question. I have a logitech microphone that i use to play games. when the mic is plugged in to my soundcard, whatever sound the mic picks up also goes through the speaker. that means the sounds in my room and my voice as well can all be heard at all times, unless if i turn off or disconnect the mic.

In windows xp i could disable mic output in playback preferences but that option doesn't seem to exist in Windows 7, or it seemed to have moved.

Is there a way i can make it so sounds the mic picks up doesn't go through the speakers/headphones?

 

[corkyg]

If you have the speaker icon in the Notification area, right click and select Recording Devices. That will bring up a dialog box that should show your microphone. Right click on it for control options.

 

[poisonpanik]

If you go into the Playback Devices menu and view the properties of your speakers you will find under the LEVELS tab that you can mute or lower the output volume of your mic just like you could in previous versions of windows. It's just buried a bit more here.

 

[ElvinJim]

If you go into the Playback Devices menu and view the properties of your speakers you will find under the LEVELS tab that you can mute or lower the output volume of your mic just like you could in previous versions of windows. It's just buried a bit more here.

I mean read the post by poisonpanik. The other guy was wrong but poisonpanik was correct.