
after that, i can unplug them or whatever and they work fine otherwise, even at 100 volume, any audio is far too quiet for my liking. In case the driver got uninstalled through Device Manager, then by restarting your computer will re-install the driver automatically. You can search them using your device model number. every time a bit audio plays once in a while), there's a quite audible pop that gets annoying very quicklyĪnd even past that, there's this annoying quirk with the microsoft generic driver where it can output two wildly different volumes for my headphones depending on whether or not i had them plugged in during boot or afterwardsįor whatever reason, i can only get usable volume out of them if i have them plugged in while starting windows. You can download and install latest audio drivers from device manufacturer website.

That wouldn't be such a bad thing, except for that fact that when it restarts the device (ie. ^ that's basically what op was asking about, the rest is me rantingĪfter that, the only thing is making registry edits to remove the annoying 'feature' where, in an attempt to save battery life, windows shuts off the power to the audio device (read more here: ) It's annoying, but when it does happen, i reboot into safe mode, delete all the realtek folders i can find, and use DDU to remove the driver I haven't had to deal with the realtek drivers reinstalling themselves in a while

Telling windows to not download drivers as part of windows update doesn't work I have a dell laptop (g5), so i understand your pain
