How to change default sound playback device programmatically?

System Tray Audio Device Switcher uses “Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Sound Mapper”, “Playback” to set the index of the sound device which was obtained by enumeration the devices. mciSendCommand from “winmm.dll” is also used In this source code you will find the registry keys used to achieve that. If this doesn’t work you could give Process Monitor a try … Read more