{"id":18940,"date":"2015-09-25T14:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T13:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18940"},"modified":"2015-09-25T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T13:38:04","slug":"driver-updates-by-windows-update-are-ruining-windows-10-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18940","title":{"rendered":"Driver Updates By Windows Update Are Ruining Windows 10 For Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In previous posts I talked about how <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18750\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Update was breaking the Intel HD graphics<\/a> adapters in my Lenovo Yoga and Toshiba KIRAbook Ultrabooks, and I also posted a solution that <em>should<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18804\" target=\"_blank\">prevent Windows Update from downloading drivers<\/a>. Well \u2026 nothing has worked, and I regularly face broken graphics drivers on my Ultrabooks.<\/p>\n<p>The only solution that I have to solve the issue is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uninstall the device in Device Manager<\/li>\n<li>Refresh<\/li>\n<li>Manually install a driver that I downloaded from Intel &#8211; I keep this driver for regularly carrying out this process.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve found that Windows Update can silently install the updated fault driver during the middle of a presentation, and suddenly I am no longer sharing my display with the projector\/screen &#8211; that\u2019s an interesting problem, that requires 5-10 minutes of fixing.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks have suggested that I use the solution in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3073930\" target=\"_blank\">KB3073930, How to temporarily prevent a Windows or driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10<\/a>. I did, and that worked for 5 days, until Microsoft shipped replacement versions of the driver, the block rule lapsed, and I was back to Square One.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only issue I\u2019m having with Windows 10 \u2026 but it is absolutely driving me nuts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that Samsung felt like they had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2015\/6\/25\/8844819\/samsung-disable-windows-update-exe\" target=\"_blank\">block all Microsoft updates<\/a> to give customers a stable Windows experience. Please Microsoft, stop shipping frakked up drivers, or give me <em>actual <\/em>control over these updates on Windows 10, not just the illusion of it!!!<\/p>\n<p>Let me be very clear: the only source of driver updates should be from the PC manufacturer. Microsoft has always sucked at this, and their new &#8220;we know best&#8221; model with Windows 10 shows how out of touch they are with this subject.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:251b58b6-d8ec-4781-9345-aebfd9995a80\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+10\" rel=\"tag\">Windows 10<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Windows+Updates\" rel=\"tag\">Windows Updates<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Hardware\" rel=\"tag\">Hardware<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In previous posts I talked about how Windows Update was breaking the Intel HD graphics adapters in my Lenovo Yoga and Toshiba KIRAbook Ultrabooks, and I also posted a solution that should prevent Windows Update from downloading drivers. Well \u2026 nothing has worked, and I regularly face broken graphics drivers on my Ultrabooks. The only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=18940\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driver Updates By Windows Update Are Ruining Windows 10 For Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[180,136,121],"class_list":["post-18940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows-desktop","tag-hardware","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/2198577135_7110347f91_z_d1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18940"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18946,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18940\/revisions\/18946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}