Can't use earbud microphone Acer Aspire E5-574G Windows 10

I have a pair of earbuds with a microphone that I would like to record with instead of the terrible inbuilt one. Unfortunately, when I plug it in it still uses the inbuilt one. The icon next to the jack indicates that it is speaker and microphone, and the end of my audio jack does have four rings. The microphone works fine on my Android phone, so I know it isn't the earbuds' fault. I remember when I first plugged them, there was a dialogue menu that asked what I wanted to connect it as, and I selected sound and tried to select microphone, but it only let me use one so I selected sound and told it not to ask again. How can I get the microphone to work on those earbuds? Getting sound and mic to work simultaneously would be preferable, but if I can do one at a time that is better than nothing.

Thank you, I hope you have suggestions because this has been a problem for a while.

Edit: When I used to use Linux on my another laptop, I think the earbud mic and sound worked automatically, but I am not sure

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