- May 3, 2012
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I have a bit of an issue that I thought would be more common.
I own an Acer Aspire Laptop running Windows 8 and I rarely ever use speakers, as I prefer headphones. The issue is that if I ever accidentally unplug my headphones the audio jumps straight to speakers which can be annoying and if I were ever out in public would be pretty embarrassing.
So I'm looking for a way mainly to make sure that the speakers don't take over sound immediately when headphones are unplugged. I assume I could just disable speakers, but in the Sound tab the Headphones and Speakers seem to be under one audio device labeled "speakers". If I plug headphones in the computer asks what I just plugged in (I click headphones of course) and the headphones take over and mute speakers.
I have the Realtek Audio Drivers installed. It seems in Windows 7 from what I've read you could seperate the two devices by advanced settings, but I can't find an area to go to those in the Realtek HD Audio application. IS there a way to do this? I want to be able to separate the two to just disable my laptop's speakers (so I can reenable them if I ever want to). I used to use a Mac (hated) that had two profiles for sound for audio and headphones to solve this exact problem. Is there a similar fix to this? If there isn't can I just kill my speakers? Thanks for any help!
I own an Acer Aspire Laptop running Windows 8 and I rarely ever use speakers, as I prefer headphones. The issue is that if I ever accidentally unplug my headphones the audio jumps straight to speakers which can be annoying and if I were ever out in public would be pretty embarrassing.
So I'm looking for a way mainly to make sure that the speakers don't take over sound immediately when headphones are unplugged. I assume I could just disable speakers, but in the Sound tab the Headphones and Speakers seem to be under one audio device labeled "speakers". If I plug headphones in the computer asks what I just plugged in (I click headphones of course) and the headphones take over and mute speakers.
I have the Realtek Audio Drivers installed. It seems in Windows 7 from what I've read you could seperate the two devices by advanced settings, but I can't find an area to go to those in the Realtek HD Audio application. IS there a way to do this? I want to be able to separate the two to just disable my laptop's speakers (so I can reenable them if I ever want to). I used to use a Mac (hated) that had two profiles for sound for audio and headphones to solve this exact problem. Is there a similar fix to this? If there isn't can I just kill my speakers? Thanks for any help!
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