Windows 10: I accidentally disabled my headphones as a device, and now there is seemingly no way to...

I was having a strange issue where my computer would not recognize my headphones as being plugged in The pop-up would come asking which device was plugged in, and I would select headphones; however, the headphones would not work, and in the sound control panel, where it shows your audio playback devices, it would say they were not plugged in. I could fix this by resetting my computer; however, it was growing tedious as I was having to turn on my computer, and then reset it, every day. This problem only began around 3 days ago. I was attempting to fix, looking through drivers and such; howeve

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Accidentally deleted headphones icon

After an windows 10 update, laptop sound was showing headphones only.

Tried to correct and accidentally deleted the headphone device icon from

laptop.

Is there a way to reinstall or put the headphone device icon back?

Thank you,

 

Headphones output device is not plugged in

A quick update about additional steps I tried:

1. Uninstall KB4512508 (no effect)
2. Re-install KB4512508 (no effect)
3. Disable and re-enable High Definition Audio Device via device manager (no effect)
   

As a last ditch I booted the PC with a live OS from USB storage and to my surprise the Headphones socket on the front panel was detected and worked fine. I think this should rule out a hardware-related issue.

Once again, I would appreciate any suggestion to solve this problem.

Best regards,

 

Accidentally deleted headphones icon

Hi,

I would suggest you to try the below Methods and check if it helps:

Follow these steps to set the headphone as the default device.

• Connect the Headphones.
• Right click on the speaker icon
• From the resulting search results, click “Sound”.
• Click the “Recording” tab.
• Right-click the Headset and click “Set as Default Device”

Refer to the below link:

No sound in Windows:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...eac-4566-867a-98d2761a770d/fix-sound-problems

Let us know if you need further help with any windows issue. We will be glad to help.