Why is my laptop only producing sound when the headphones should be active?

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Published on 2011-06-08T00:44:39Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 11:30 UTC
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I think Skype may have corrupted my laptop speakers somehow. The other day I was listening to music on my headphones when a coworker started sending me IMs. Whenever the alert sound played, the music and alert would both come out through the laptop speakers for a second instead of the headphones.

Now sound only comes out through the speakers when skype is playing sounds, or if I right click the volume control, select Playback Devices and test the headphones. So if I play music it's silent. If I go into Skype and dial the sound test call the music will start coming through the speakers.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Win7 by the way.

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