Why does my computer need to tell me when I plug into the headphone jack?

And, why is the icon so ugly?

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Do you have any 3rd party audio software installed, possibly some controller app that came bundled with the driver? I don't receive that toast if I plug/unplug my regular or USB headsets.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    I have what came with BootCamp

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    hmm...so are you running Windows on a MAC? (bootcamp)...

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Because sadly Realtek drivers implement this.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Because sometimes you can plug it in and nothing happens.

  • regular audio out keeps going
  • no headphone sound
  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Consider upgrading from Vista to Windows XP. That should fix it. ;-) http://dotnet.org.za/codingsanity/archive/2007/12/14/review-windows-xp.aspx

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    I just discovered how to get this out of the system tray last night!  Open the config UI and in the right corner is an italic letter "i"--click on that to reveal a dialog that gets this utility out of the task bar.

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Cool, thatnks worked. Thanks for the tip!

  • Anonymous
    March 20, 2008
    Even more annoying is that my Media Center PC (with Realtek audio) often pops up that message at 3:00 AM when nobody's around (I know this because it puts out an odd popping sound when it appears). I've disabled it and it still pops up this message -- Really annoying (not to mention a silly notification anyway)!