Three Ways to Disable Automatic Driver Update in Windows 10, 8, 7 🔄🚫💻
Channel: Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows
Date: 2017-02-01

👍 Watch how to disable Windows 10, 8 and 7 automatic driver update. Sometimes new versions of drivers are not always compatible with your hardware and it results in errors or unstable work of your system. That is why it is time to learn how to disable automatic driver update.

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Content: 
0:00 - Intro;
0:23 - The first way
1:31 - Second way
2:12 - Third way

Here is the first method.
Enter “gpedit.msc” in the search field.
Press Enter.
The “Local Group Policy Editor” window appears
Go to “Computer Configuration” - “Administrative Templates” - “System” - “Driver Installation”
Double-click on the item “Turn off Windows Update device driver search prompt”
Here, select “Enabled” and click “Apply.”
You may have to restart the computer to apply the new settings.
Note. It works only for Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise. 

In this video, we will also review several other variants of disabling automatic driver update in Windows 10, which will also work with other versions of this operating system.

Now here is the second method.
Enter “System” in the search field and press Enter. 
Here, click on “Advanced system settings”
The window “System properties” opens
Go to the tab “Hardware”
Go to “Advanced Installation Settings”
In the window that opens select “No” and click on “Save Changes”
Note. You should be the Administrator to do it.
You may have to restart the computer to apply the new settings.

Here’s the third method.
Enter “regedit” in the search field and press Enter.
The Registry Editor starts.
Now go to “HKEY LOCAL MACHINE” - “SOFTWARE” - “MICROSOFT” - “WINDOWS” - “CURRENTVERSION” - “DRIVERSEARCHING”
Open “SearchOrderConfig” and set the value “0,” then apply the changes so that the system stops looking for drivers automatically.
You may have to restart the computer to apply the new settings.

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