Playback Devices Problem

[balsimon]

Hi - first timer here. Hopefully, I'm posting in the right place.

Let's begin with a picture.


The 'Before' image is more or less what my Device Drivers dialog looked like before I made
the mistake I'll discuss. (More or less because I did an image search on Google to find an
image close to my original configuration and am displaying that.)

The 'After' image is what it looks like now.

The way I got here was that I the sound on my Toshiba Satellite P755-S5215 laptop (Windows 7, 64bit).
Right-clicking on the Realtek device, I saw "disable." I mistakenly thought this would gray out the speakers
and then I'd be able to right-click again and choose "enable." Simple - but wrong.  Disable meant "delete."

So now some of the applications that require the Realtek device won't work, even though I can still hear
sound through my headset.

Am I hosed? Or is there a way to get the speakers to work again?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
- Bal

[DaveLembke]

Have you tried a restore point?

[balsimon]

I haven't done that yet. Last restore point is quite some time ago.  I was kind of hoping that there was a software driver to re-install or an exe file to click, etc.

[Salmon Trout]

Disabling a playback device will not hide it if you have "Show Disabled Devices" checked: right click any device in the Playback tab (or the window itself).

[balsimon]

Fan-freaking-tastic Salmon Trout! Thank you thank you thank you!

Very much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Bal