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How do I permanently disable “sound enhancement” in sound settings?

Anonymous
2025-04-10T15:02:07+00:00

Every time I reboot my computer or laptop I have to turn off the “sound enhancement” because the setting is constantly going down, is it possible to fix it somehow?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-10T19:51:42+00:00

    I have checked everything, I have the latest driver versions installed, and windows. Selecting an old date driver doesn't help either, after rebooting the system the “sound enhancement” turns on by itself.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-10T19:29:51+00:00

    Unfortunately, it didn't work. After rebooting the system, “sound enhancement” was enabled again

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  3. Siva Shankar 10,960 Reputation points
    2025-04-11T07:42:47+00:00

    Thanks for checking.

    Prevent Windows from Re-enabling Enhancements via Registry:

    This helps stop drivers or Windows Update from resetting your settings.

    1. Press Win + R, type: regedit
    2. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\MMDevices\Audio\Render
    3. Under Render, find the long subkey that corresponds to your output device.
    4. Inside that, look for a subkey named Properties
    5. Add or edit this DWORD:

    Name: {9e8c7d26-7e4b-4c41-a1e3-25b844d44691},3

    Value: 0 (hexadecimal)

    This disables audio processing like loudness equalization or enhancements.

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  4. Siva Shankar 10,960 Reputation points
    2025-04-10T16:31:42+00:00

    Hello ,

    I’m here to help you in resolving your issue

    1: Disable Sound Enhancements via Sound Settings

    a. Right-click the speaker icon in your system tray and select "Sounds" or "Sound settings".

    b. In the new window, under "Output", click your output device (e.g., Speakers/Headphones).

    c. Scroll down and click “More sound settings”.

    d. Select your default playback device and click "Properties".

    e. Go to the “Enhancements” or “Advanced” tab.

    f. Check the box “Disable all enhancements”.

    g. Click Apply > OK.

    After trying above steps, please reach out to me if you have any doubts or issues

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-04-10T16:17:17+00:00

    Hi Fept tXXX,

    Thank you for Posting in Microsoft Community.

    I understand how important it is to disable the Sound enhancement in sound settings.

    For us to further understand the situation that you have I will be asking a few questions.

    I want to ask if you have tried to run windows update as there may be an update for your audio driver.

    Have you also tried to manually update the Audio drivers in device manager?

    Try to open device manager by pressing windows key then type device manager then look for sound, video game controllers, Clik the drop-down icon beside the sound, video game controllers

    You should see the High definition or Realtek audio driver

    From there you must right click then click on update driver then select browse then let me pick. You should see the versions of the driver and from there you must select the old date driver and see if it fixes the issue.

    Please do get back to me so we can further troubleshoot on the issue.

    Best Regards,

    Bench

    Microsoft Moderator

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