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I'm experiencing Windows Update replacing AMD drivers on my AMD A8-7600 Radeon R7 processor. Several times this has caused the computer to crash and it's also caused the menu item for Radeon Settings application to break.
I tried changing the "Device Installation Setting" to no, but that didn't make any difference.
On one occasion, the "Show or hide updates" utility, but this is only a temporary setting, so not really much of a fix. It seems the only way this can be used is to wait for the update to be downloaded.
I haven't tried changing the registry key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DriverSearching", because it doesn't seem to be a reliable fix, based on the feedback I've read.
I found the fix described in this thread and it looks interesting. However, I checked for the key on three different systems and the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate folder wasn't present. Two of the systems are running Windows Home and the other is running Windows Pro. On the Windows Pro system, the specific policy isn't present.
Here are the versions:
Home: 1511, build 10586.545
Home Insider Preview: 1607, build 14915.1000)
Pro: 1511, build 10586.545
For those who have tried this fix, did you have to create only the key or did you also have to create the folder?