Vista - Realtek hd audio not showing up in control panel

I recently just tried plugging in an old pair of speakers that i've had for some time, and they worked fine. I then decided that i'd just make sure everything worked fine if i wanted to switch back to my headset, so i went into Control Panel -> Sound and saw both my speakers and headset there. I double clicked on the realtek audio out part that was my speakers, and assumed that selecting the disable option (a drop down box that said "device usage" next to it) would just switch to my headset, since just double clicking on my headset did nothing. Well, now it just completely got rid of the driver from that list and i can't get my speakers to work.

help?

Hi beast,

Go back to Control Panel -> Sound Right click on a device in the list, and select show disabled devices, you can then right click on your disabled device and select enable.

Having Loudspeakers enabled is as you have found out necessary, your headset should also work fine with this setting, so there is no need to swap between the two

Thanks a million pooch xD fix worked