Windows 11 keeps changing audio output.

Don't take this the wrong way, but this thread is over eight pages long and posting well intentioned but vapid suggestions that everyone has tried, such as "make sure your graphics card drivers are up to date, set your desired audio device as the default in Sound settings, and disable any unused devices." is an annoying distraction rather than helpful. We've all tried that. That's the first thing we've tried. People who start with the "make sure to boot into safe mode" and "make sure your bios is up to date" and- all that stuff? No. Just. Enough.

By page four of this thread we've all been through that troubleshooting. If you have something better to add than, "...try rebooting the monitor as well," I'm all ears. If not, please don't bother chiming in.

Harrumph.

"Broke down at the side of the road? Try changing your oil!"

This is ANOTHER time-waster from this Carlos guy.

Hey, Carlos, stop "helping" people.

This wrong-answer boilerplate garbage from Microsoft.

Wow. A year out and this isn't fixed yet? I just took the WIN 11 plunge this weekend now that everyone feels it's fairly stable and BOOM, the audio devices reset every time you reboot and it's infuriating. I'm DEFINITELY not running a startup macro to manually reset it every time (for the person that suggested that), and I'm just going to disable every audio device I can in the meantime, but this whole situation is exactly the kind of thing that makes people hesitate before upgrading...

So I appreciate all the "workarounds" that MS support and others have posted, but can we get an update on an actual fix?

OK I decided to read it through... something I now regret. My take on what you wrote can basically be boiled down to this:

• You think you are awesome and experienced.
• You never have problems you can't solve.
• The problem is multifaceted and not just about Windows 11 (that one point I can agree with)
• You don't have a solution other than sell your computer and buy a new one.
• Avoid Chinese made components.

Did I miss anything. Seriously dude, what exactly where you trying to achieve here? This seemed very self-serving, and you made a bunch of logical fallacies.

It is always difficult in threads like this to figure out which people are having related problems, and which are different due to their hardware or settings. So being charitable you are not wrong in that it may not be Windows 11 problem for some or many of the people here, but we don't have enough information to make that call and given Windows track record for introducing odd bugs over the years, I would say that statistically speaking there is higher chance it is a Microsoft issue than not.

I too have some anecdotal experience... in my experience this problem is new and not one I had on Windows 10 with the same hardware (all hand-built quality gear). And it was not present when I first upgraded to Windows 11. I suspect Windows 11 driver updates are a factor, but there of course could be a range of other things that are potential causes. Please note I am not assuming I know for sure, but I don't think it can be discounted at this point.

If the problem is that my monitors go to sleep and Windows switches outputs because of that, then that is a huge issue. My monitors go to sleep when I turn my pc off, and that is normal behaviour. They don't sleep or turn off when the computer is powered on.

When I set something to 'don't allow' then Windows should really just listen to that. Isn't there any way to make Windows do this?