I have a system here that does as James mentioned; turning audio connections on/off as they are plugged or unplugged. Often guessing at what I want it to do. If I unplug the line in, it enables the mic, and disables it if I connect to line in. Same with headphone/speakers. Dunno if it is software or hardware triggered (I'm sure the hardware is involved obviously) but I was finally able to get it to stop popping up to tell me everything it was doing as a response to what I did. The system still does what it does, but I don't have to close the extra window anymore every time I connect something.

Only caveat was that now if I hook up a monitor using HDMI, it used to ask if I wanted to shut off the onboard LCD, now I have to go do that manually.

Tradeoffs for everything I suppose. just more rambling..


I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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