Splitting headphones and speakers to play separate sounds?

I recently got a new desktop and that is the only problem that I have. I like to go on Skype and then play music/game sounds through the speakers, but on my audio devices list, it only shows up Speakers/Headphones. I know that the Realtek HD Audio Manager would let me split them up, but when I download that, all I get is some worthless Dell Audio thing (picture at the bottom) that barely has any options. So, is there anything I can do about this? I don't know how specific to be, so if you need more information, just say so.

Do you mean you want communications (skype) through the headphones and everything else though speakers?

I don't know that you can do that. Windows only allows one "default audio playback device", thus either the Speakers or the Headphones would be the default audio device.

Wullail said:

Do you mean you want communications (skype) through the headphones and everything else though speakers?

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Yes, sorry. I'm not very good at explaining it but you're exactly right. And the speakers and headphones are listed as one device.

I'm guessing the headphones are a standard jack connector then...not a USB device...

I can't think of a way to do this with a set of headphones that uses a jack connector...it's basically connected to the same circuit that runs the speakers...

if you had USB headphones then it would be possible as they appear as a seperate set of 'speakers' which can be set as the default communications device.

Wullail said:

I'm guessing the headphones are a standard jack connector then...not a USB device...

I can't think of a way to do this with a set of headphones that uses a jack connector...it's basically connected to the same circuit that runs the speakers...

if you had USB headphones then it would be possible as they appear as a seperate set of 'speakers' which can be set as the default communications device.

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Would it work if I just used a USB adapter? I ask because I already have one that I used when my old computer's sound stopped working.

Wullail said:

I'm guessing the headphones are a standard jack connector then...not a USB device...

I can't think of a way to do this with a set of headphones that uses a jack connector...it's basically connected to the same circuit that runs the speakers...

if you had USB headphones then it would be possible as they appear as a seperate set of 'speakers' which can be set as the default communications device.

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WELL I used an adapter and it worked! Thanks for your help!

Good, glad it worked for you.

I'm on UK time here so missed your update till now