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If Messenger is running and you make the change it will continue to use the speakers until you do so. Note that it is necessary to restart Messenger for these changes to take effect.

The audio will now go through your headphones This will cause all communication audio (ie - Live Messenger calls) to redirect through the headphones when they are connected

Right-click the bluetooth/wired headphones and select Set as default communication device.

You will see the top item is my bluetooth headphones – they are currently set as the default playback device automatically when connected by the BlueSoleil software i am using.

Right-click the speaker icon in the system tray and select Playback devices to display the following dialog:.

Connect your bluetooth headphones or plug in your wired headphones.

What this means, if you are using bluetooth headphones or similar, is that the sound will still go to the speakers unless you configure it to use your headphones.

If you make a video call or voice call through messenger it will direct to the default communications device not the default playback device. Turns out that messenger falls into the second category.

Set as default communications device - All calls and video call audio will be played through this audio device unless otherwise directed.

Set as default device - Audio from all programs will be played through this audio device unless otherwise configured.

For audio playback devices there are two default settings:

(the default value), 1 for Multimedia, and 2 for Communications.Discovered something else totally cool about Windows 7 (and probably Vista though i havnt tried it on there). Setdefaultsounddevice parameter is optional and may countain one of the following values: 0 for Console NirCmd Command Reference - setdefaultsounddevice for system sounds, but want communication on their headset, hence there are two separate Playback Device settings, Default Device (for non-communication.