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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I recently discovered, after a while of wondering why the audio quality in windows was worse than fedora that the automatic windows audio enhancements actually made the audio significantly worse πŸ˜… meanwhile I still haven't figured out how to stop windows from randomly switching the audio source from my headphones to my nonexistent display monitor audio.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    Don't forget that windows updates can completely screw up all of your audio settings, specifically the microphone.

    [–] StopSpazzing 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Open device manager, goto audio devices,then disable the audio driver for your monitor. Simple

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Simple

    it would be "simple", if start->settings wouldn't point me in an completely wrong direction. As it is, you need to know the secret phrase "device manager" (or "control panel" or "management console") to find the hidden settings-dialogs that will actually solve the problem.

    [–] pissclumps 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Or you could right click the speaker icon in the taskbar

    [–] StopSpazzing 3 points 10 months ago

    That's another secret you must remember.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    be sure to click on "sounds" an not "open sound settings", because these are obviously total different things.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago
    [–] veganpizza69 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Right-click on the Sound icon, then Sound Settings.

    You get to: System > Sound

    You can do stuff directly in the first panel, but scroll down:

    System > Sound > All Sound Devices

    Find your Display there, it could look like:

    Click on it.

    The first option in the detail view is to toggle it as a sound "output" device:

    The options are "Allow" or "Don't allow". Once it's blocked, it's no longer in the list of options for switching easily between sound output devices (automatically or manually).

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    You should be able to disable your monitor's non-existant audio device in one of the settings menus. On Windows 10 it's in the old style control panel's audio device settings.