My Headphones Won't Work on My Laptop
By Stephen Lilley
Updated September 28, 2017
If a pair of headphones won't work with your laptop computer, this means that the headphone jack itself has become disabled. If you want to get your headphones working again, you will have to manually enable the headphone jack on your computer using the "Sound" native configuration utility.
Plug your headphones into the headphone jack on your laptop computer. To enable the "Headphone" line on your sound card, the headphones must actually be plugged into the computer.
Right-click on the "Volume" icon in the Windows system tray.
Click "Playback Devices."
Right-click on the listing in the "Playback Devices" window that reads "Headphones."
Click "Enable." Your headphones will now work with your laptop computer.
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Stephen Lilley is a freelance writer who hopes to one day make a career writing for film and television. His articles have appeared on a variety of websites. Lilley holds a Bachelor of Arts in film and video production from the University of Toledo in Ohio.