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After plugging in headphones/microphone set, my desktop speaker no longer plays sound? WINDOWS 10
So sound then plays from headphone only - How can I get the sound from both headphone and desktop speakers (I did follow steps at http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/audio-playback-through-headphones-and-speakers/faf2cb4a-b853-44a6-a7ee-37abaeb327c5 But it did not work on my pc?)
Also when I plug my headphones in, my pc speakers are no longer detected in the Sound / Playback box. There is also no “Stereo Mix” in that box. I will do a screenshot
I should add that previously, I have not had any problems, when I first got the headphones and plugged them in, they just started working alongside my desktop PC Speakers, I did not have to enable anything or muck around in the system tray, same when I upgraded to Windows 10, no problems, no muss, no fuss.
emilybieman
Posted 2016-10-10T05:42:18.793
Reputation: 11
Something about your system did change. It might be a software driver setting. Mine has an option to automatically switch it but usually that doesn't mean the speakers disappear. Check your drivers and maybe install the ones which are meant for your system instead of the windows default ones. Did you recently get the anniversary update? Had several people that needed to reinstall audio drivers after it. – Seth – 2016-10-10T06:25:58.383
There's a hardware switch inside the socket which tells the OS a headset has been inserted. The OS can be told to ignore that switch. It's in the Realtek control panel, rather than the system sound panel [not on a windows machine right now so can't tell you exactly where] – Tetsujin – 2016-10-10T06:30:03.513
Yes, I did get the anniversary update, but I was experiencing some other problems (like unable to access Microsoft updates / certain websites / skype not working) so the only thing available on the Microsoft help page was that update, after downloading it made no difference to the problems I was experiencing – emilybieman – 2016-10-11T22:06:41.247
experiencing so just after that I did a whole system restore (it took 2-3 days to reinstall and update everything and 12gb download data -talk about time wasting) but now I have access to Microsoft / Skype and to almost all web pages (bar the ABC Classic FM radio Listen page(?)) So when I click on my audio driver it says it is up to date. I feel I should just give up on my head set and only plug it in when I need to, as I do not seem to be able to get any definitive answers.
(On another note, I still occasionally get weird flashing / blinking phenomenon when I using outlook or word?) – emilybieman – 2016-10-11T22:07:10.400
"I do not seem to be able to get any definitive answers." Did you even look at the Realtek Control Panel as I suggested above? – Tetsujin – 2016-10-12T07:37:21.743
Related: Why can't I use my internal microphone at the same time as my headphones?
– Stevoisiak – 2018-08-10T16:03:24.490