Could anyone recommend a decent bare-bones simple WAV recorder?

[arcane1]

Everything I have requres the creation of a project folder, or some other nonsense. Even the free stuff.

In 1997 I purchased a used Compaq that had a WAV recorder. You just pressed "record", played what you wanted to play, and then pressed
stop when you were done. Then you saved it somewhere.

Every thing I have since found is over-complicated. By the time I've created a new folder and chosen my project properties, I have forgotten what I wanted to record!

[Denzil_DC]

1. Windows XP, 7, and 8 have the built-in Sound Recorder

You can't get much more bare-bones than that!

In Windows XP: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/app_soundrecorder.mspx?mfr=true

In Windows 7: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/record-audio-with-sound-recorder

I believe in Windows 8 it works roughly the same as W7, but there's also an app that does much the same thing: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/sound-recorder-app-faq

[arcane1]

2. Hahaha! I had no idea that was there, all this time!

Thanks!!!

[jtuck004]

3. Great tip above. And if you want to open it with just a couple of keys,

you can r-click on the icon in the menu, before you click to open it up (Windows 7, anyway - possibly XP) go to properties, the tab labeled "shortcut", and click in the field labeled "shortcut key" and choose a key combination that something else doesn't typically use in, say, your browser ).

I tried ctl-alt-s, nothing happened, so I used that, then closed it and saved it all.

Now ctl-alt-s opens it, and the space bar starts and stops it, opens a window for saving, if I don't click anywhere else.