Turn On or Off Device Driver Automatic Installation in Windows 10  

Hi Shawn, thanks for your efforts!

I'm not sure where to ask this question, perhaps this tutorial is the right place.

Any time I connect something to my computer - most often it's my phone which I connect through the USB to keep it charged during the day - the "Device Setup Manager" tries to access the internet. Now, this is not the first time I am connecting this device, moreover, sometimes I pick up the phone to answer a call and disconnect it from the PC (I have some sort of a charging station/stand for it) and then few minutes later connect it again. Again, I have the "Device Setup Manager" wanting to connect. I block these connections and nothing happens, everything works as it should, from which I figure it's some sort of telemetry. I don't understand why should the PC report to someone every time I connect my phone or a USB drive, and I don't want to be manually blocking it every time. So the question is - is this "Device Setup Manager" actually useful for something or can I just block it from the internet altogether?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Everyone
Should I edit these keys?

Brink said:

Hello Thomas,

Only the PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork DWORD would need to be modified if wanted.

0 = off
1= on

Thank you.

Hi, Brink
The instruction of option two of tutorial might need to be corrected.
Should 0 be on or yes and 1 be off or no?



Best regards,
Steven.

Brink pointed me to this thread after I posted about an automatic driver install in a different thread.

Like some others, I'm suspicious whether this setting is even functioning as described (as it did in the old days). There's my example where it isn't. Are there recent examples demonstrating the opposite - new device connected that Windows doesn't recognise, a driver is available through WU, which does get installed automatically when this setting is enabled but doesn't when it's disabled?