

Launch “ Realtek HD Audio Manager” from the Start Menu and go to “ Device advanced settings” at the top right corner. Given you have both plugs connected to an output device, notice the green plug will appear not greyed out. In the case that Windows’s speaker UI doesn’t let us choose between the back panel vs front panel’s output. How To Switch Between Headphone vs Desktop Speaker Audio Meaning, when you choose the playback device from the Windows audio “ Select playback device” it is under “Speaker” for one audio stream among other audio outputs depends on your device’s capabilities such as Digital Output (Optical) and HDMI Output.This begs the question if that’s one audio stream, how to switch and choose which output to play the sound without physically plugin and unplug the aux cable every time when you want to switch to a different audio playback device. In Windows, Realtek considers both the Back Panel and Front Panel’s analog audio output to be the same audio stream. If you have a traditional desktop tower chances are your motherboard relays on Realtek’s driver to output sound to external speakers and headphones. Can anyone help? I can provide pictures if asked for.Realtek is the biggest audio driver provider for PC. The audio still works and I still have my internal laptop mic, I just want to use my headset mic instead. The mic on my headset does work, I have tested it with other devices in my house. I don't have the Dell Audio manager, nor do I have any way to make it appear on my laptop. I've looked in the system files for the RtkNGUI64 exe, but clicking on it does nothing. I've looked for the Realtek Audio Manager, but it does not exist on my laptop. I've tried the MaxxAudioPro app that comes with my laptop, and it doesn't show the microphone, only the headphones. I've tried resetting the drivers to "High Definition Audio" instead of "Realtek Audio" or "Realtek High Definition Audio". I've tried reinstalling drivers from recent patches, i've tried reinstalling drivers from the oldest patches. My Headset's mic is not shown here, and I cannot get it to show up no matter what I try. I've opened up the sound settings, and it only shows 1 Playback device, the "Speakers/Headphones", and 1 Recording Device, the "Microphone". My issue is, when plugging in a new headset into the combo jack, only the audio is routed to my headset. Hello, I have a Dell G3 15 3579 laptop that has Realtek (R) Audio drivers installed.
