Mute internal speaker in Windows XP?

I have external speakers connected to the Mini through the headphones port. But the internal speaker isn't muted. Just about every other computer I've ever used behaves differently -- plug something into the headphones port and the internal speaker goes mute.
This is in WindowsXP -- I haven't had a chance to test the behaviour in Mac OS. (Though I think this is a hardware issue and independent of the OS)

If you used the boot camp program to install Windows, it is a problem with the audio driver that apple uses for windows. It does not currently allow the built in audio port to switch off the internal speaker when something is plugged into it.
It behaves properly in Mac OS.
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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