Interface Input Muting On Startup - Windows

[u/cornelius-christ]

I'm having a problem that isn't directly due to Reaper, but it's adjacent and I'm running out of ideas on how to resolve it.

I have a windows laptop running Reaper and a Behringer UMC1820 interface that I use for my band's playback rig. Recently I've been having the issue where my none of the inputs are receiving audio in Reaper. After some digging I found that Windows is muting all of the inputs in the actual windows settings causing me to manually select and unmute each and every input I want before Reaper is able to receive the signal. The issue is that I can unmute the mic inputs, but Windows is defaulting back to mute every time the interface is disconnected from the PC. Unfortunately I can't narrow down what change caused this to suddenly be an issue.

What I've tried so far:
-Reinstalled the Behringer driver
-Reset all audio devices to default
-Disabled "Allow applications to take exclusive controls of this device" under audio devices
-Confirmed mic is enabled in privacy and security setting, Reaper is also listed as permitted use.
-Disabled fast start up
-Windows and nvidia drivers are up to date

Does anyone have any ideas how I can get these inputs to be unmuted by default again? I appreciate any help, or other subreddit suggestions that might have the answers.