Turn On or Off Device Driver Automatic Installation in Windows 10  

Brink said:

Time will tell if it still gets enforced though.

Welp, I'm back two days later with another example of it being ignored, this time when connecting my multifunction printer for the first time.



Unlike the previous example, this one was a nuisance. The automatically installed drivers did seem to work at first, but after subsequent reboots the printer would have a troubleshoot symbol, with a couple of driverless devices showing in Device Manager, unless I power cycled the printer after every reboot. Manually installing the drivers from Brother fixed that, but resulted in the printer showing up as "Copy 2" of the device while the original was still present. Lot of time-wasting mucking around before I came across a solution.

That's why it can be frustrating that this setting apparently no longer works. Guess the only workaround is to go offline before connecting the new device, though that's easy to forget and might not cover every use case.

Please consider these steps as another approach in the tutorial:

1) Open System Properties by typing “sysdm.cpl” (without quotes) in the Search box on the Taskbar, then hit the Enter key.

2) In System Properties, select the Hardware tab, then click on Device Installation Settings.

3) In the Device installation settings screen, choose NO.

4) Click on Save Changes to exit.

5) Restart the system.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/gpu-kb205