Script to turn on and off speakers?

[DGFletcher]

My (programmer...) boss recommended this to me.

I need a script that lets me one-click open start menu, control panel, hardware and sound, sound, right-click-on-speaker, disable Real-tek speakers, and then another one to turn it back on. 

I'm not a programmer... how hard would this be to set up? 

 

[SadBunny]

Not that hard, but it would be quite the unwieldy solution to automate all of those windows. One thing I would certainly do is just start the sound control panel directly: 
control mmsys.cpl sounds (from start -> run or from the commandline). Shortcuts the first four steps right off the bat.

There are also many tools available for controlling these sorts of things directly, which are probably much quicker a solution than to learn to program (though if you want to learn then you can certainly use this as an exercise of course  ). I googled and found this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

All you have to do is execute a command like nircmdc mutesysvolume 1 to mute the system volume and nircmdc mutesysvolume 0 to un-mute it again. Put it in a batchfile or something. I guess that should fit your needs?

Good luck.

[nitekram]

Send ('{VOLUME_MUTE}') turns it off and run it again to turn it on

[DGFletcher]

Er, I have to turn Real Tek off to turn my work headphones on, so a basic mute won't work, unfortunately. 

[nitekram]

Are you trying to use the headphone jack in the front of the computer for the headphones?

There are issues with Real Tek and those jacks...you may want to go into the properties and change that...

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-pictures/realtek-hd-audio-manager-in-windows-7-disables-the/81569d98-8ffe-4fe7-b08a-8b37da9b3e67

EDIT

Also this http://www.spyontech.com/how-to/here’s-a-quick-way-to-solve-realtek-hd-audio-plugged-and-unplugged-problem.htm

EDIT 2

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za3YOE_N0tQ

 

Edited June 5, 2015 by nitekram

[Chimaera]

On pcs we build we goto the options panel in the realtek menu and set the front jacks to AC97 sound then they both work, the hdmi does not work well with the front header.

May not help but i thought i would menton

[SadBunny]

Send ('{VOLUME_MUTE}') turns it off and run it again to turn it on

​Holy cr*p.

[ViciousXUSMC]

Id probably look into using DevCon - https://support2.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272

Or Powershell and of course you can wrap those with Autoit.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Device-Management-7fad2388