re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 9:51 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by FinnHawk (1 messages posted) SOLUTION! DO THE FOLLOWING STEPS: 1.) - Start > Settings > Control Panel > System (OR Right-Click My Computer > Properties) - Click "Hardware" Tab - Click "Device Manager" Button - Click the + next to DVD/CD-ROM Drive - Right Click DVD/CD-ROM Drive Name > Properties - Click the "Properties" Tab - UNCHECK "Enable digital CD audio for this cd-rom device." 2.) - Open Windows Media Player - Tools > Options - Click "Devices" Tab - Select Audio CD (or whatever the CD-ROM appears as) - Click Properties Button - Select Playback > Analog Radio Button That should do it! Now it should play directly from the CD-ROM's headphone jack when you play an audio CD with Windows Media Player. Sal Written in response to: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (Frank Erridge: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 at 1:28 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (Frank Erridge: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 1:28 pm) re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (Sonic_Molson: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 1:38 pm) re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (Jim: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 3:36 pm) re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (JC: Wed, Nov 20, 2002, 6:33 pm) re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (Jim: Thu, Nov 21, 2002, 5:25 am) re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (james: Tue, Mar 18, 2003, 12:24 pm) re: XP upgrade refuses to allow use of head phones (FinnHawk: Wed, Jul 28, 2004, 9:51 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum