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Comments 1. Facebook Tweet. One comment dan. Oct 14, at pm. But how do you know a driver is being updated by an incompatible driver before it happens? Early versions of the Creators Update included an easy graphical option to change this setting on Windows 10 Professional , but Microsoft decided to remove it.
Note that your hardware drivers may still be updated by Windows Update in some situations. On Windows 10 Home, you can only change this option via the Registry. You can also do it this way if you have Windows Pro or Enterprise, but just feel more comfortable working in the Registry as opposed to Group Policy Editor. If you have Pro or Enterprise, though, we recommend using the Group Policy Editor, as described later in this article. This should prevent Windows 10 Home from installing driver updates, but Microsoft could change this behavior at any time and ignore this setting on Windows 10 Home.
Microsoft added this hidden option in the Anniversary Update. Standard warning : The Registry Editor is a powerful tool and misusing it can render your system unstable or even inoperable.
And definitely back up the Registry and your computer! In the Registry Editor, navigate to the following key in the left sidebar. You can now close Registry Editor. You may need to restart your PC before your changes take effect. To undo this change, return to the above location in the registry, right-click the ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate value, and delete it.
One enables this option, preventing Windows Update from automatically installing driver updates. The other disables this option, restoring the default behavior. Both are included in the following ZIP file. Double-click the one you want to use, agree to add its data to your Registry, and then restart your PC. Disable Automatic Driver Updates Hacks. For the most part, automatic driver installation is not a problem and works fine for many people. Windows 10 automatically downloaded all the relevant drivers and installed them for me.
However, there might be situations where the automatic driver installation is not desired. Those situations include but are not limited to buggy drivers, wrong drivers, outdated drivers, incompatible drivers, etc. In those situations, you can disable automatic driver installation in Windows There are multiple ways to disable automatic driver installation in Windows
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