How to change sound card settings in windows 7 The following tutorial is based on a situation where you may be trying to set up a software package such as skype or some sort of audio application, or you may work in an office area where speech coming out of speakers may not be suitable and you want to use headphones. Important: At the point where you are now going to change your settings the situation you are in maybe that you have no speech coming through the normal external speakers of the laptop or PC. Speech may have already been diverted to the Headphones as windows 7 is notorious for switching all sound over to headphones especially if they are USB driven so when attempting the below instructions either have sighted help or wear the headphones to hear what you are doing. 1. In windows 7, open the start menu. 2. In the search box that comes up, type in the word Sound and then wait a moment or two. 3. Arrow down through the list of results till you come to one called: "Change Sound Card Settings" 4. Press enter on this choice or double left click. The sound card control page will open up. You will now be in the sound card play back section and will have a list of sound devices o nyour laptop displayed such as speakers etc. 5. If it is your wish to have speech come out of the laptop speakers permenantly and only have speech come through the headphones sometimes then you need to choose usually the first item in this list which is simply called "Speakers" denoting the laptops own speaker system. 6. Once you have decided on which speaker setup you want speech coming from on a permenant basis, tab key over to the "Default button" and press the spacebar or "left click" once so that your new settings will be saved as you want them. Next tab over to the "OK" button and press spacebar or again "Left Click" to complete the job. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 2873 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message NCBI: Celebrating 80 Years ******************************************************************** National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) is a company limited by guarantee (registered in Ireland No. 26293) . Our registered office is at Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. NCBI is also a registered Charity (chy4626). NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ********************************************************************