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An audio problem in Win10, a forgotten app, and a Dropbox update

Posted on October 4, 2020 at 21:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

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By TB Capen

Controlling audio in Windows has always been one of those things that should be really simple — but aren’t.

Recently, I ran into another audio problem that really had me flummoxed. When I was watching a Netflix movie on my PC, inside a Firefox tab, audio came through just fine on my USB headphones. But if I unplugged them, there was no audio from the speakers attached to the machine’s audio-out port.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.39.0 (2020-10-05).

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