To temporarily prevent the driver or update from being reinstalled until a new driver or updated fix is available, a troubleshooter is available that provides a user interface for hiding and showing windows updates and drivers for windows 10.. How to prevent windows from automatically updating specific drivers walter glenn @wjglenn july 22, 2016, 9:00am edt windows–especially windows 10–has a bad habit of installing new updates for hardware drivers whether you want them or not.. Frustrated says: january 29th, 2018 at 11:21 am. another reason for disabling updates is if a windows 10 update fails when installing and causes the computer not to boot..
In this article, we will share three different ways to disable automatic driver updates in windows 10. while the focus and screenshots are from windows 10, the same configurations can be used for windows 7, windows 8 and windows 8.1.. One of the windows 10 related complaints i hear regularly on supersite for windows and through social media is the mandatory delivery of universal drivers through windows update.. Windows may install drivers for select devices, say the graphics card, under certain circumstances. this happens by default for instance when the device is setup, but may also happen when microsoft pushes driver updates through windows updates..