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Why does my computer output volume drop to 20% whenever I plug/unplug a USB device?

Asked by El_Cadejo (34610points) May 5th, 2013

It’s quite odd…
If I plug in or unplug a usb device my sound drops dramatically. It doesn’t matter if it’s a device like a webcam or a mouse/keyboard. The other odd thing is that the act of plug/unplug doesn’t cause the main output to drop but rather whatever program is outputting sound(chrome, firefox, vlc, winamp etc)

I’ve already tried going into the sound properties and disabling “allow applications to take exclusive control of this device” but that didn’t seem to do anything

Any ideas what is going on here and how to fix it?

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