Not sure if this was mentioned, but you could try Sound Recorder. It's pretty basic and comes with Windows. The only draw back is that it creates wav files, not mp3's. Wav files are still audio, but they're much larger then mp3's, so they can't be sent by email. You'd have to download a seperate program to convert the files. But, if ya can't get anything else to work, ya might want to give it a try. Just click "Start", then "Run", then type in sndrec32 and press "Ok"