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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
I disabled it and it broke my ability to swap between headphones and speakers
gpt
It didn't break it. You'll just have to manually do it in the control panel &gt; Sound &gt; Playback tab and set your default to whatever you want to output audio on. Messy crap tbh. 

I used to use am open source tool called Audio Switcher because I got tried of the Realtek bloat and just wanted a key bind to swap between a USB soundbar and headphones on the fly. Something like that might float your boat if you want an alternative to the Realtek software.