Enable or Disable Driver Updates in Windows Update in Windows 10

Brink · 12 Mar 2017

Yasak Hayat said:

Hi,

Sory but I'm confused.
What is the difference option 2 and 4?
Yes different reg keys changing but I wondering which one must choose?
In other saying same result with different ways or different ways and different results?

Hello Yasak, :)

Basically, option 2 turns on/off driver updates from Settings via registry.

Option 4 enables/disable driver updates using group policy via registry.

Group policy will override Settings.

Yasak Hayat · 12 Mar 2017

Brink said:

Hello Yasak, :)

Basically, option 2 turns on/off driver updates from Settings via registry.

Option 4 enables/disable driver updates using group policy via registry.

Group policy will override Settings.

So option two is useless because option four already doing same thing. (Or opposite)
Sory but I'm still confused. In my logic one of them must delete from tutorial :)

Brink · 12 Mar 2017

They are basically two different ways to do the same thing.

Option 1 and 2 is to do so via a setting from Settings.

Option 3 and 4 is to do so via a policy in Group Policy that will override Option 1 and 2.

You can check both to make sure they're set how you wanted though.

Yasak Hayat · 12 Mar 2017

Brink said:

They are basically two different ways to do the same thing.

Option 1 and 2 is to do so via a setting from Settings.

Option 3 and 4 is to do so via a policy in Group Policy that will override Option 1 and 2.

You can check both to make sure they're set how you wanted though.

Thank you for answers. Have a good day :)

Brink · 12 Mar 2017

You're most welcome. :)

oneLess · 13 Mar 2017

as add , I think

the service Device Install Service [ DeviceInstall ]
can be also mentioned here as option

I use in an elevated command prompt

net start DeviceInstall

for forcing the driver updates
on a fresh win 10 install with internet access on.

I do no tested , but I think that a value disabled for the startup of this service
will disable also the driver updates.

possibly to work also in 7 and/or 8.x

c

f14tomcat · 13 Mar 2017

Yasak Hayat said:

So option two is useless because option four already doing same thing. (Or opposite)
Sory but I'm still confused. In my logic one of them must delete from tutorial :)

Brink said:

They are basically two different ways to do the same thing.

Option 1 and 2 is to do so via a setting from Settings.

Option 3 and 4 is to do so via a policy in Group Policy that will override Option 1 and 2.

You can check both to make sure they're set how you wanted though.

Yasak Hayat said:

Thank you for answers. Have a good day :)

@Yasak Hayat

Group Policy editing is not available in Windows 10 Home edition. Settings would be the only option, if you or anyone else is running Home edition. Just for clarification.

Brink · 13 Mar 2017

f14tomcat said:

@Yasak Hayat

Group Policy editing is not available in Windows 10 Home edition. Settings would be the only option, if you or anyone else is running Home edition. Just for clarification.

@f14tomcat

You can still set group policy in the Windows 10 Home edition, but you must manually do so via Registry Editor instead of easily in Local Group Policy Editor since the Local Group Policy Editor is not available in the Windows 10 Home edition.

Option 4 in this tutorial is for how to set this group policy in Registry Editor.

f14tomcat · 13 Mar 2017

Brink said:

@f14tomcat

You can still set group policy in the Windows 10 Home edition, but you must manually do so via Registry Editor instead of easily in Local Group Policy Editor since the Local Group Policy Editor is not available in the Windows 10 Home edition.

Option 4 in this tutorial is for how to set this group policy in Registry Editor.

That's what I meant, No GUI editor in Home.

Brink · 13 Mar 2017

Ok. I thought that was probably what you meant, but just wanted to clarify to help avoid confusion. :)