your laptop’s built-in audio) and click “Set Default” to make it the default for sound output. This is the place where, if you’re not actually using your USB or docking station audio, you can select a different audio output (e.g.You should be seeing something like this-: This will bring up the list of available audio devices, one of which should be your USB audio device. Here is how to configure the settings on Windows 7-:Ĭlick on Start>Control panel and select ‘Hardware and Sound’Ĭlick on ‘Sound’. But if you do not have speakers, we can get the audio to play through the Laptop speakers by making it the default playback device. Thanks for posting here! By default, Windows 7 makes a new USB audio device the default - even if it doesn’t have any speakers attached! So if speakers are plugged into the dock you will definitely hear the audio.