My original problem was that I use my headphones a lot, so much that my previous laptop audio jack 3.5 output stopped working after a while. I have a (5 years old) Dell (inspiron 15 3542) laptop with an audio jack 3.5 for headphones and windows 10a and 'realtek high definition audio' driver.
If I could find out which registry key is changed when someone else checks the 'Disable Front Panel Jack Detection' box in their Realtek Audio Manager, I could edit that same key on my computer, and achieve the same functionality. So I was thinking: Perhaps this Dell skin is only cosmetic. Realtek's HD Audio Manager has a 'Disable Front Panel Jack Detection' option which gives this functionality, but Realtek's skin for Dell motherboards, which my computer has, does not include this option. I've found registry keys that can be edited for Windows 7 and 8 which give this functionality, but none for Windows 10. Therefore I'd like to control this feature manually and force the sound to come out of my headphones all the time. Because the jack is broken, however, my computer only detects that my headphones are plugged in when I push or tilt the plug, and that's the only time I can get sound out of them. The headphones are normally supposed to turn on when they're plugged in.
I have a headphone jack with a broken sensor.
