I Want To Disable Windows Sonic For Headphones.

Windows 10, professional version.

I much prefer Dolby Atmos for my Spatial Sound manager. Much.
Very often, usually on login occasionally on my starting a media program, Windows Sonic will be set as the sound manager in use, and I'll have to switch to Dolby.
Now, this is really a minor complaint. I know about six different ways to turn off Windows Sonic and to turn on Dolby Atmos. But if there is some way to disable Windows Sonic or to prevent it from being set as my active sound manager I would love to know about it.
I have searched the internet for something that would prevent my system from turning Windows Sonic back on, but to date, no luck.
Any ideas, people?
Joseph Bonnar

 

Given the helpful nature of people using these forums, I have to assume that if I haven't had a response by now, it's because nobody here has the answer. There might not BE a solution to my problem.
This is something I can live with, but should somebody ever find a way to give Windows Sonic for Headphones the axe, I will be delighted to buy them a case of their favorite beverage.
Joseph Bonnar

 

Of course, just as soon as I put this in writing, someone will come up with something obvioius to prove me wrong. But I think Windows Sonic is one of those uninstallables. You can disable, but not remove.

I know MS won't hear me, but making anything uninstallable; and worse, forcing anything "to my face" by making even the shortcut unremovable, is a surefire way for me to reject the offending app. I've heard good things about the new Edge, but I will never know, because it's disabled on my computer, and always will be. Sorry for the tangent, Joe.

 

You don't need to apologize. My only comments about MS Edge and other such "uninstallable" programs Microsoft hands us aren't printable.

 

I guess you've tried searching/Googling (or other search engine) for a solution? I found some discussions of this problem by Googling "dolby atmos keeps switching to windows sonic". Didn't read all the stuff that came up, but might give those search results a look.

Good luck!

 

Thank you for your response, Eezak. I went back and double checked on DDG using your search suggestion, and I found one thing I hadn't tried yet.
So we'll see if this works.

 

Well, that one suggestion from elsewhere didn't work. So in desperation I tried to contact Dolby Support.
It turns out this is a known issue, and Microsoft has promised multiple times to fix it. And never have.
Dolby made one suggestion:
Settings, account, sign in options: Turn "Use my sign-in information to automatically finish setting up my machine after an update or restart" OFF.
So I'm trying that now.

 

And I would think contacting Dolby Support for their advice falls under the RTFM umbrella, so I'm a bit embarrassed.

 

try this:

Go to speaker icon in taskbar -> notification area and then right-click on it.

Then go to playback devices -> speaker (playback tab, under playback device) -> properties -> Advanced.

Under exclusive mode, disable checkbox "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"

This shouldn't allow any thing to change the spatial audio format.

 

Thank you for your response.
The problem was resolved; I had to contact Dolby for information on it. As per the representative I spoke with, they were creating a fix for the very problem I was describing.
Three weeks later the app was updated; the update fixed my problem.
Joe Bonnar