How to disable automatic driver downloads on windows 7






















Following your explanation : disabling the setting via gpedit. HOLD yer horses! But heres what you do.. Hello there. Can someone be so kind and help me providing any other steps to be followed? Disable windows preconfigured driver 3. Restart computer 4. Installing Realtek sound driver 6. Result: no sound, no sound driver!!!!! This is still the first hit when someone googles for instructions, so p;ease confirm if your altered instructions are still valid.

No it stops windows from downloading the drivers. Many people are getting confused, the disable function within window allows you to disable windows update from connecting to the internet to look for drivers. As it is under the windows update section. It will not entirely disable windows update. Thank you this worked brliantly for me!! Windows 7 then worked fine without reinstalling after each boot. Unfortunately, vista home and windows 7 home do not have a Local Group Policy Editor.

As you guys probably know the however well-intended, obvious and obviously non-functional advices you would see if you google for disabling automatic driver installation or disabling it will not work.

From what I have gathered it is a known issue with Windows Vista and Windows 7 that the option to never update your drivers obviously doesnt work. Disabling windows update does not help either because the driver windows installs for you is the system driver already stored in your windows installation.

Click on the subfolder Device Installation on the left and on the right side you will see the possible restrictions. Reboot Windows and enjoy its inability to pollute your system with its standard driver, open gpedit. Now I had to figure all this out pretty much on my own so I am not sure as to what would be the best way to adjust other policy options to just affect your graphics driver, printer, whatever.

Honestly I wasted so much time with this issue I did not even bother. In your face, stupid Windows. Use the other method, from the above or read here: Go to Start menu, right-click on Computers and click Properties.

You will see a box as shown below, now simply select Ask me each time I connect a new device before checking for driversNever check for drivers when I connect a device, depending on how you want Windows Update to find a matching driver?

However, these programs have to contend with the fact that Windows is a moving target, and tricks that work in one version might not work in the next. If you do not use this feature then we recommend you to disable it and see if that decreases the Disk usage.

Disabling this service will stop the indexing of all files, but you will still have access to Windows Search. Thus, group policies in this respect only catch up with the settings app where automatic update configuration has already disappeared with previous versions of Windows Enumerates installed software with descriptions and establish date and list of installed hotfixes with description.

The right-hand pane shows the data values that are stored at a specif c level in the registry hierarchy i. Trang web. When I set up a new system for someone I immediately take out whatever anti-virus program is in there and then activate Defender. This step opens the Local Group Policy Editor. Click Yes if you are prompted. In the right window, double-click Prevent installation of devices not described by other policy settings.

Click to select Enabled , and then click OK. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback?



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