Turn off Windows 7 Automatic Driver Installation

alkie · 02 May 2010

Cheers mate.
I would just like to add the reason I was made aware of this forum and subsequently joined was normally any Windows 7 related query I made in Google usually resulted in bringing me here.
So thanks for the great job you guys are doing!!

pebbly · 02 May 2010

nice work again capt

steve-pressman · 02 May 2010

Nice one Capt :)

tannim · 01 Sep 2011

This does not work, period. All this does is disable window's ability to download an update for the driver. Windows will continue to install the drivers it already has in its database automatically.

How do I know? I tried it when Windows screwed up my mother's Nvidia driver install.

How do I stop it from installing a driver PERIOD when new hardware (or more realistically, hardware already plugged in that it screwed up) so that I may install a correct driver?

**Capt.Jack Sparrow** · 01 Sep 2011

tannim said:

This does not work, period. All this does is disable window's ability to download an update for the driver. Windows will continue to install the drivers it already has in its database automatically.

How do I know? I tried it when Windows screwed up my mother's Nvidia driver install.

How do I stop it from installing a driver PERIOD when new hardware (or more realistically, hardware already plugged in that it screwed up) so that I may install a correct driver?

Hello Mate,

Yes this will not stop Windows from install drivers. But it stops Windows downloading it from Internet through Windows update. If you want Windows to stop installing it then you have to remove the drivers and use the delete function as well.

Hope this helps,
Captain