Question Win10/11 and the "disable auto driver installation" setting

[mikeymikec]

I just encountered a mind-bogglingly stupid situation on Win11 whereby I had installed latest graphics driver for the Ryzen 5700G (WHQL certified as well), then the Win11 22H2 update was installed which downgraded the graphics driver to an older version. This in turn broke the AMD graphics control centre (whatever they call it these days).

It makes me wonder again whether to disable auto driver installation on my customers' computers, but I worry that even the most basic of hardware installations (e.g. a mouse) then turns into a situation of a non-techie attempting to hold Windows's hand through an operation that it's able to do itself without a noteworthy chance of screwing up.

Has anyone here used this setting? How does Windows handle a situation like auto-detecting/installing networked printers, or something as basic as a mouse install when auto driver installation is disabled?

 

[RLGL]

Google is your friend, it provided this article: Stop installing drivers

 

[WelshBloke]

The REALLY annoying setting is the "I see that you have a mouse by [vendor name here] let me just automatically download a bunch of crappy software from [mouse vendor name]"

I always forget where that setting is and get a ton of proprietary software that I don't need or want.

 

[mikeymikec]

Google is your friend, it provided this article: Stop installing drivers

Thanks for the google result, but that didn't answer my question.

 

[Iron Woode]

I just encountered a mind-bogglingly stupid situation on Win11 whereby I had installed latest graphics driver for the Ryzen 5700G (WHQL certified as well), then the Win11 22H2 update was installed which downgraded the graphics driver to an older version. This in turn broke the AMD graphics control centre (whatever they call it these days).

It makes me wonder again whether to disable auto driver installation on my customers' computers, but I worry that even the most basic of hardware installations (e.g. a mouse) then turns into a situation of a non-techie attempting to hold Windows's hand through an operation that it's able to do itself without a noteworthy chance of screwing up.

Has anyone here used this setting? How does Windows handle a situation like auto-detecting/installing networked printers, or something as basic as a mouse install when auto driver installation is disabled?

I upgraded my HTPC from win 10 to win 11. My HTPC uses a Ryzen 5600G and win 11 did the same thing. I had the newest one on win 10 but after the upgrade it was gone. So I spent some time installing proper drivers.

Everything works great but for some reason win 11 wants a MS driver for my Intel Blu-Tooth not the Intel one.