Problem solved. Thanks for your valuable assistance. I'm going to try and mark you as the best problem solver. That Fernando Terra's post although filled with good information ultimately did not provided a solution. As a last resort I decided to check into your early suggestion of a problem...
Right clicking reveals a different menu from yours. Clicking on Sounds just shows a single source labelled speaker/headphone. Still can not mute the speakers when plugging in the headphones. Yes, continuous sound is heard in both left and right earphones. In both 3 conductor or 4 conductor...
Right clicking reveals a different menu from yours. Clicking on Sounds just shows a single source labelled speaker/headphone. Still can not mute the speakers when plugging in the headphones.
I have right clicked on the speaker icon in the lower taskbar. The result menu does not have a playback devices. However it does have open sound mixer. In this the speakers and headphones are controlled by one single slider.
How to mute the internal speakers when the earphone is plugged in? I'm running Windows 10 on a new HP Stream Laptop. I'm stunned that any pc would be made with no apparent way to make this work normally. Earphone jacks were specifically invented to allow use in public places. How do I correct...