Enable or Disable Driver Updates in Windows Update in Windows 10  

With the XP Mode that was the previous MS attempt to bridge the gap between XP and 7 users when MS wanted businesses in particular lingering around and clinging onto XP to move up into 7 after Vista didn't take off so well mainly due to how MS Understated things like the actual need for more ram but instead simply allowing OEMs to slide by with under equipped gear resulting he bad rep that one got fast! 7 came along with the MinWin success story while not seeing the hardware requirement go up any as well as what we now find with 10! If they had only stated ... Vista wouldn't have been seen as such a flop as it actually wasn't but still needed the MinWin kernel.

MS tends to do things half baked at times as when 8 was a flop attempt to bring in the dual platform OS which went nowhere fast! 8.1 smoothed things a little but it was still going to take 10 or newer for MS to progress far enough along to worth the look! The initial hardware detection and auto find incorrect and hang drivers problem will have to be worked by MS before the next time comes along? however.

What is now being implemented this fall by MS however is to take the Windows OS namely with 10 for businesses and turn it into a monthly paid for service rather then simply being a newer version of the OS. All support is paid for as you would for any other monthly service by subscription. For us home users on the other hand we will still need to learn how to debug things on our own like tracking down support site updates from the OEMs out there.

Fortunately months back I had already tracked down the updates I would need here as far as a few expansion cards go to save a great deal of time when avoiding debugging hassles. This is one of the main reasons I would advise looking things up first you will need for each type of hardware(s) you before 10 looks them up in order to verify and see that the correct drivers go on. The guide here will show how to stop 10 from gumming up the works in the meantime. :)

The 64bit Windows will be found to be slightly more involved since it host both the 64bit as well as emulates the 32bit kernels simultaneously requiring more entries in the System Reg itself.

The guide here simply explains the more commonly used and easier to follow options. You'll find out soon enough we have a rather authorative expert at writing guides here as seen over the last decade from Vista to present. Even while having found an option or two for other things at times when stuck I seem to always find my way back.

This is probably the reason I had issues with 14393.67.
I disabled the driver update.
Thanks @Brink .

Couldn't agree more about the optional section. Their thinking these days however is on Tablet and Windows Phone as well as other hand held devices where touchscreen rules not on continuing to carry on with the more traditional approaches to things.

In fact phasing the entire Control Panel out is something being considered. The WU and a few other things have already been removed from there. The Feedback Hub would be the best place to express the concerns on these things however.

One thing I haven't be seeing in any form here would be the automatic updates for the AMD Catalyst now practically since Vista early 7 days when a bug or two had been run into prior to ATI being bought out by AMD. Expansion cards seeing correct drivers but no apps where those had to gone for manually in order to substitute 8.1 updates for those. For clean installs of 10 unchecking the check box for updates if having problems would be the advice since the optional section of the WU is no longer!

dobbelina said:

If you don't have "Anniversary edition" but older v1511 Build 10586 this policy will disable all driver updates:
Computer configuration=>Administrative Templates=>System=>Device installation=>Device Installation Restrictions=>Prevent installation of devices not described by other policy settings

which says:


So, if you don't configure anything else under this branch, except enabling this policy, all driver
updates are disabled.

(This policy is also present in v1607)

Cheers

Just be warned that this policy will prevent any device from being installed on the computer.

Prevent Installation of All Devices By Default