I’ve just used my old trusty babyface this past week for work, a corporate event running sound for a google meet remote guest at an office building.  It worked wonderfully, no problem… except I could not get it to be recognized by the client’s newer MacBook Pro computers, and so I ran the google meet on my older surface pro.  Like I said, it worked out fine however, immediately after the event ended I noticed my surface went into a windows auto update, as it seems to do whenever it wants, and I was laughing because of how ridiculous it is that windows behaves like this and how close I came to ruining the event with this update.  Now last night, maybe 4 days after last using the babyface without issue on my surface, I was trying to watch YouTube at home in Firefox browser.  YouTube played videos but there was no sound.  I thought, ok maybe my computer thinks it’s still connected to the babyface even though that doesn’t not appear in my sound settings as an option.. I tried a lot of things, I restarted, I googled a bunch of things and looked in Firefox help.  I also connected my babyface again just to see if I could get audio out of it and what do you know?  The babyface is no longer recognized my my computer.  Has anyone else run into this with the most recent windows auto update?  I am running windows 10.  Is this THE END for all original babyface products?  I certainly hope not, what a shame if it’s just a driver issue that will never be updated. 

If anyone knows how to get control over windows so that it doesn’t auto update like this, please let me know.  I have tried in the past and though I had set it up to avoid automatic updates, but either it has reverted back on its own, or I didn’t actually do it because it seems to update very often and without my permission. 

Side-note, also I have noticed a very strange behavior where spotify installs itself perhaps every other time I open the app on the surface, which seems like very abnormal behavior as I have used it for many years.