Now, yes, I can disable this pop up, but that setting is never saved, which means whenever I plug the earbud in, the system will disable my laptop's mic. Windows 10: Search for Sound and open the Sound control panel app, this will take you to the same screen if you are unable to right click the speaker icon in. Here I can select to ignore the earbud's mic, but this is not a great choice because every time I plug it in, that thing pops up, which is not good while gaming, for example. Anyways, to achieve my desired setting I need to have this pop-up enabled for whenever I connect an audio device it asks me what it is. I don't know why, I guess it has something to do with earthing/grounding but that's not the point here. The earbud's mic is noisy on the PC despite it working great on my phone this happens with other earbuds too. 8 hours ago In the Sound window, on the Playback tab, click to select Speakers/Headphones and then click the Properties button. That's not good because my laptop's mic works better for some reason.

I have a laptop with combo audio jack, which means whenever I plug an earbud that has a mic, the machine will automatically detect that mic and disable the laptop's internal mic.

How to disable mic on headphones