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How do I mute the laptop speakers while still getting sound out of my headphones in Windows 7? So even if I pull my headphones out, still no sound comes out of the speakers. As a laptop user, you know that most of the time we work in quite areas such as libraries or night flights. When you accidently pull the headphones jack out, your music blasts causing a lot of unnecessary disturbance.

In Control Panel > Hardware & Sound > Sound, I have only one device: "Speakers/Headphone", so it is unclear how I could disable only the speakers.

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  • what sound chip do you have? I'm not sure if its the whole solution but realtek based sound devices have an option for considering the headphones/front panel header and speakers seperate outputs, which might be part of the solution
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 10:55
  • As far as I understand, I have Realtek High Definition Audio.
    – arvidj
    Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 11:46

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You can't do this unless your speakers and headphones appear as separate devices in the Playback Devices menu, accessible from the audio icon in the system tray. The solution to always make it so one device never plays is to right click and disable it.

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If you do not see two separate devices above like this, honestly the easiest thing to do will be to spend $20 on a USB headset. This will appear as a spearate device here and can be independently disabled/enabled from the other devices. Therefore you can make audio only play from that USB headset and never play from the laptop speakers pretty reliably.

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  • You do have to enable this feature from realtek's sound manager on many systems, but yeah, this would likely be what OP needs.
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented Feb 13, 2017 at 13:56

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