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I am trying to switch from the Realtek Audio driver to the High Definition Audio driver. The former keeps giving me problems when I plug in earphones, while the latter is always fine.

I've done this before by going to Device Manager and using 'Update Driver'. I have also gone into the System settings in the Control Panel and disabled the option to automatically update drivers. Sometimes I notice it's switched back to Realtek Audio (when things stop working properly), but I just switch back manually and it's fine again.

However, this morning it switched back to Realtek Audio. Every time I use 'Update Driver', it automatically reinstalls Realtek Audio a second later. The icon for the volume control switches to have a red cross on it, like it has previously until a restart. I get the message to restart to finish the changes, then the icon switches back, it says 'Realtek Audio' again, and I get a notification telling me to restart to finish installing the Realtek Audio driver.

I have checked, and the update driver box in system settings is still unticked, I have disabled and Realtek processes and revoked their permissions, and I have restarted multiple times and still have the same problem.

Please could someone tell me how to stop Realtek Audio from reinstalling itself within a second of disabling it?

Worthwelle
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GCooper
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Try this, let us know how it goes…

Have the HD driver ready on your machine, direct from realtek.

Disconnect from the net [physically, power off your router if you have to]
Open Device Manager
Uninstall the device
Reboot
Install the HD driver
Reboot
Reconnect the net.

Don't ask Windows to update the driver, or it will swap back again. This has been a known issue since forever. The Realtek drivers come with a nice control panel, the ones from Windows throw it away.

Tetsujin
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