Windows 11 only get audio when login to system

Windows 11 mutes all audio devices if there is no active user session. Is there a work around for this, or is this apart of Windows security settings?

Murrell27 said:

no active user

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That would be when no one has logged in so the computer is essentially sleeping. Might check the power options for when things shut off.

Hello,
So our deployment is unique but system does not sleep or hibernate that has been disabled. but the following post is what we are seeing review. Thank you again.

My company produces audio DSP software that runs as a Windows background service. A fairly common customer use case is to use the PC for audio DSP while there is no active user session in the UI. We have observed that Windows 11 mutes all audio devices (including the built-in headphone jack) if no users are logged in to the UI. Is there a setting or registry value that could be changed to allow audio to pass whether or not a user is logged in? Note that we have not observed this issue on PCs running Windows 10, this appears to be unique to Windows 11

Don't know, maybe KIOSK Mode?

Hi!

I can confirm Murrell27's observations. I have been writing Audio recording software using NAudio and it simply records silence
- after the PC has been rebooted and
- no user is (or has been) logged in after reboot.

@Murrell27
Did You find a solution for this problem?
Have You tried to log in as user after reboot and log out afterwards and checked if Your problem persists?

Regards from Germany
Kai