Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. By submitting your email, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Windows—especially Windows 10—has a bad habit of installing new updates for hardware drivers whether you want them or not. You could go big and simply prevent Windows from downloading updates altogether, or you might have luck blocking or hiding updates.
And of course, we have a caveat for you right off the bat: setting a policy to disable updates for a device prevents both automatic and manual updates of drivers for that device. There are actually two steps to this process. Your first step is finding the hardware IDs of the device for which you want to block updates. In Device Manager, find the device you want to block updates for. Now, all you have to to is grab those IDs so you can access them when you configure the policy in the next step.
The easiest way is to copy them to a text file. Save the text file so you can call it up in the future. Back on the policy page, click OK to apply the policy change and then you can exit the Group Policy Editor. The only way to really test the new settings is by trying to install an updated driver or waiting for Windows Update to try. You should get an error message when any new driver installation is attempted.
Also, since the device is still registered, Windows Update may download new driver updates for the device. I had to disable it because it would type random characters. Is there way to prevent uninstalling this selected and installed driver? Logitech camera, I need generic video driver.
But I have not found policy to prevent driver uninstall. It says: I want to change this driver. Kill the old driver. Then: ops, I can not install drivers for this device, it is forbidden by policy, sorry.
Any thoughts? W10 I ended up just blocking the driver update with the wushowhide utility. Easy and simple way to get rid of that annoying installation sounds every time my pc boots! Thanks Martin!
We have 2 older Epson Claria 6-ink printers that have been working fine for years. After that, both printers print washed-out useless prints. The fact that both Microsoft and Epson are doing this at more-or-less the same time is disconcerting, making me think Epson who no longer makes or supports these older 6-color printers is illegally colluding with both Microsoft and Apple to disable our perfectly good printers, and force us to buy the latest pricy Epson models and really, really, expensive 8-color ink cartridges.
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Hi, I repeatedly see questions concerning this subject, but by the time I see them it is too late to respond in a timely fashion. They are scheduled for 8pm Daily. I have found that the only way to stop the installation of Win 8. While the focus and screenshots are from Windows 10, the same configurations can be used for Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8. For changing the device drivers automatic installation setting in Windows 10, you will need to dig deep into the Control Panel.
Just follow the steps below:. This should stop Windows from automatically downloading and installing device drivers from Windows Update. Windows Group Policy can be a handy tool to change device drivers settings. This can be useful especially when you are doing it for multiple systems in the network.
Follow the instruction below to disable device driver updates from Windows Updates using Group Policy:. If you want to dig deeper in controlling every aspect of device driver installation through group policy, read this wonderful technet article. You can also disable device driver installation from Windows Update using Windows Registry.
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