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Windows 7 Headphone Glitch
For some reason, it seems my headphones will not work right in Windows 7. When I plug them in, the built-in speakers (I have a laptop) get silenced, but no sound comes out of the headphones. Windows doesn't show their muted or anything, and it seems to treat them and the built-in speakers as one device. I can get them to work if I put the computer in standby, then wake it up again. They're normal non-USB headphones, so I don't see how it could be a compatibility thing. They also work fine with my phone and under Ubuntu, which I have installed on the same machine. They'll also work fine if I pl
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