Auto Updates 'Breaking' HP Network Printer Driver

Auto Updates have 'broken' my HP Network AIO Printer's driver. Repeatedly. On all four networked PCs/Laptops in my household.

Requires uninstallation then re-installation of printer driver to regain network printer access/functionality. I and my family are just so impressed </sarcasm>

Indeed so impressed that my daughter just bought a MacBook. It behaves perfectly.

Seriously considering going over to the dark side as it appears that 'it just works' isn't just a marketing slogan.

DraftySatyr said:

Auto Updates have 'broken' my HP Network AIO Printer's driver. Repeatedly. On all four networked PCs/Laptops in my household.

Requires uninstallation then re-installation of printer driver to regain network printer access/functionality. I and my family are just so impressed </sarcasm>

Indeed so impressed that my daughter just bought a MacBook. It behaves perfectly.

Seriously considering going over to the dark side as it appears that 'it just works' isn't just a marketing slogan.

You have gone back to Win 8.1, or you have another computer running Win 10 ?

I am NOT a Win 10 "fan boy".
In fact, I am in the camp that maintains MS has pushed out a product immaturely.
That said, I would suggest Patience, if that is acceptable to you.
Let MS sorts things out. Win 10 might turn out to be fine....... eventually.

davidhk said:

You have gone back to Win 8.1, or you have another computer running Win 10 ?

I am NOT a Win 10 "fan boy".
In fact, I am in the camp that maintains MS has pushed out a product immaturely.
That said, I would suggest Patience, if that is acceptable to you.
Let MS sorts things out. Win 10 might turn out to be fine....... eventually.

The main issue is that MS won't let users have the option of manual selection of updates as was done in the previous modern versions
of Windows. This is a HUGE mistake, and it is destroying users confidence in 10. Myself included.

They NEED to return the option of MANUAL update selection and installation to users that desire it, the fact is that NUMEROUS
Windows updates that are being forced on users are causing lots of problems that often times prevent the OS from being usable at all.

I agree with the venting towards MS over automatic updates. I don't mind Windows OS updates (security fixes etc) being automatic but I object to device driver updates being forced. I would like the option to choose whether I take a device driver update if windows locates one. So I don't want to switch off the feature entirely as it was helpful installing drivers for my Bluetooth dongle but I wouldn't want Windows 10 going anywhere near things like printer drivers and gpu drivers - I want to install these when there is a compelling reason to need to do so at my own leisure. The problem with Windows update delivering drivers is the potential to break things which were working perfectly beforehand and this is plain wrong.

I haven't had it happen to me yet but the amount of people I have seen stitched up by the process is not good