Posted in Audio and Video: The audio jack on the back works, just the one on the. Then make sure front panel audio is enabled in your BIOS. For that purpose, you put your headphones on and after connecting it to the port, a message pops up saying “Windows 10 won’t recognize this device”. Frustrating enough, isn’t it? Don’t worry because I will guide you through 5 different ways to fix the issue of headphone jack not working in Windows 10, 8, 7. Headphones Jack Not Working on Windows 10. First, you must make sure that the headphone jack is successfully connected to your computer, and that the headphone is not broken. If you have multiple jacks, for example front panel and back panel jack, try to switch the headphone jack from front to back jack or vice versa to see if it works.

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I have a headphone jack with a broken sensor. The headphones are normally supposed to turn on when they're plugged in. Because the jack is broken, however, my computer only detects that my headphones are plugged in when I push or tilt the plug, and that's the only time I can get sound out of them. Therefore I'd like to control this feature manually and force the sound to come out of my headphones all the time.

I've found registry keys that can be edited for Windows 7 and 8 which give this functionality, but none for Windows 10.

Realtek's HD Audio Manager has a 'Disable Front Panel Jack Detection' option which gives this functionality, but Realtek's skin for Dell motherboards, which my computer has, does not include this option.

So I was thinking: Perhaps this Dell skin is only cosmetic. If I could find out which registry key is changed when someone else checks the 'Disable Front Panel Jack Detection' box in their Realtek Audio Manager, I could edit that same key on my computer, and achieve the same functionality.

Does anyone know which key this is?

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I figured it out! I don't know for sure if this will work for everyone, but it worked for me under Windows 10 while using Microsoft High Definition Audio Device Driver version 10.0.14393.0.

1. Press Windows Key + R.
2. Type regedit, press Enter.
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}0007GlobalSettings.
4. Right-click the REG_BINARY EnableDynamicDevices, click Modify, and set it to 0.
5. Reboot.

Windows will now display your headphones as an available audio device, whether you have headphones plugged into the jack or not.

To undo this change, repeat the previous steps, but set EnableDynamicDevices to 1

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