How can you protect your drivers from getting changed by Windows update?

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How can you protect your drivers from getting changed by Windows update?

ronnie williams 0

please come up with something??? Every time I update, windows drivers have to be reinstalled, this has to stop, you can't do business with customers while working on your computer all day

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Hi, good day!

You can try the Registry method below to prevent Windows Update from automatically offering or installing driver updates.

Make a backup of your Registry hives first using the instruction in the support article below. Make sure to select Export Range to All

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-back-up-and-restore-the-registry-in-windows-855140ad-e318-2a13-2829-d428a2ab0692

Open Registry Editor as administrator

Navigate to the path below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate

If WindowsUpdate doesn’t exist, create it.

Once created, select it and create a new DWORD (32-bit) value named: ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate

Set its value to 1

Close Registry Editor and restart your computer

I look forward to receiving your update and I'm willing to collaborate with you till we resolve the issue. Do keep me informed.

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