Windows 10: Open Mic at Windows Startup causing loud feedback

I have a Blue Yeti USB mic which is plugged into a powered USB Hub and I'm running Windows 10 Pro.



For a couple of months now I've had an issue whereby as Windows 10 starts my mic is open and this creates very loud feedback through my speakers.



I use EarTrumpet as my volume control application and this is showing my Blue Yeti mic as a speaker. I can disable this as a speaker to stop the issue occurring, but after a day or two something re-enables it.



Therefore, I have got into the habit of muting my mic as soon as I power the PC on, but would really like a better solution.



I’ve tried the following steps from a post someone else made that sounded like a similar issue…


- Press ‘Windows key + I’ together to open ‘Settings’.
- Click on ‘Update & Security’.
- Click on ‘Troubleshoot’.
- Click on ‘Playing audio’.
- Click on ‘Run the troubleshooter’.

You can also update the audio drivers


and once again disabled the Blue Yeti as a Speaker as a result of doing so, but the mic is still working as a speaker, and EarTrumpet still shows it as a speaker, even after a reboot.


Windows could not find any new drivers.


I’ve tried using ProcessLasso because a few weeks back I read a post that implied that a svchost task was causing this, but nothing obvious was showing.

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