Finally found a way to disable automatic driver updates in Windows 10

[Berryracer]

As you know, Windows 10 ignores the fact that you set the option in the device installation tab to never install drivers from Windows updates, no registry tweak or group policy rule works. The moment you connect to the internet, it will update every driver it can if it finds an update even if it's not an OEM approved driver which may or may not cause a lot of headaches..


So this time, I formatted and installed Windows 10 but before connecting to the internet, I installed all the latest driver from my motherboard download site + latest GeForce drivers + latest Audio Drivers form Creative for my Sound Blaster Zx, etc....


Then I ran O&O ShutUp10 to disable telemetry, Windows Feedback, WiFi sense, and all the other rubbish. I also chose to never install drivers from Windows updates just to see if it works for the heck of it.......


After rebooting once, you will notice that one of the Telemetry disabling settings needs to be re-selected.....so I did that and rebooted yet again


now I connected to the internet and ran Windows Updates. Normally, Windows updates will start downloading and update for my Creative SoundBlaster Zx Sound Card, updates for my Microsoft HD Lifecam 3000 and an update for my Western Digital My Passport external 2TB HDD. This time it didn't! All it downloaded were a few Windows updates and that's it. Rebooted, checked for updates again, nada! No driver updates 🙂


Just wanted to share this with you guys:

 

[Berryracer]

I found out which registry entry it adds to achieve this if you wanna do it yourself:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00


[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DriverSearching]
"DontSearchWindowsUpdate"=dword:00000001

Now rename the extension from .txt to .reg then double click on it to merge it with your registry

Restart your computer

 

[TeknoBug]

Latest DDU does it too