Is there a way to prevent XP from changing the default sound device?

In my machine I have two internal sound cards a USB sound device and a
bluetooth headset. I want to be able to use the sound cards for specific
purposes but it seems that XP will decide to make the last found sound
device the default even though I specifically set another as the
default. Having to reconfigure the devices up every time the USB or BT
device connects (and gets set to be the default) is extremely frustrating.

For the most part the applications that use other than the expected
default sound device retain their settings just fine. The problem is
with games and whatnot that use the default device and end up using the
BT headset or USB device because XP has decided to change the default
device that I set in the sounds dialogue.

How can I prevent XP from messing things up?

Mike

I take the silence in response to this question as meaning that there is
no known way to disable this annoying "feature" in Windows.

Mike

M.Hockings wrote:
> Is there a way to prevent XP from changing the default sound device?
>
> In my machine I have two internal sound cards a USB sound device and a
> bluetooth headset. I want to be able to use the sound cards for specific
> purposes but it seems that XP will decide to make the last found sound
> device the default even though I specifically set another as the
> default. Having to reconfigure the devices up every time the USB or BT
> device connects (and gets set to be the default) is extremely frustrating.
>
> For the most part the applications that use other than the expected
> default sound device retain their settings just fine. The problem is
> with games and whatnot that use the default device and end up using the
> BT headset or USB device because XP has decided to change the default
> device that I set in the sounds dialogue.
>
> How can I prevent XP from messing things up?
>
> Mike