Its arrogance and hubris time in redmond again. The new windows 10 windows update sucks.
Its arrogance and hubris time in redmond again. The new windows 10 windows update sucks and everybody knows it. I have a crappy little tablet that I allowed to get molested by windows 10 because it is not one of my "real" machines and I only use it to watch TV. I upgraded the tablet to Windows 8.1 pro after I bought it so I could remotely run its crappy office 2013 installation from a real computer and have a keyboard at my disposal (touch this...). So yes it is a Windows 10 pro machine. Problem is that it ignores the group policy editor setting to allow an administrator to configure windows update. This means that first time redmond rams a bogus video driver update down its throat I will have to spend half a day rebuilding it.
August 25th, 2015 1:28am

Hi,

Thanks for your voice, lots of users has reported this to us.

In short: Windows 10 will automatically download and install updates and you have no build-in option to switch them off. (Also hope it can be fixed soon)

However, the driver is released by the device manufacturer though it could be downloaded automatically from Windows update. Please note that the manufacturer may provide more up-to-date drivers or drivers that enable additional functionality than the drivers installed by Windows 10. Always follow the recommendations of the device manufacturer for optimal performance and stability. So the best solution is that to download newer driver from manufacturer so the problematic driver from update wont over write the driver.

If there is no newer version driver, we could try to download the latest driver manually and install it in compatible mode (right click choose "Properties\compatibility" choose a mode, "apply\OK" and then run as administrator) to have a check.

In the other hand, we already have KB article for this issue

How to temporarily prevent a Windows or driver update from reinstalling in Windows 10

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3073930

Regards,

D. Wu

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August 27th, 2015 3:22am

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