Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another tech-torial for you.
This time I wanted to talk about the driver updates for your computer. So a lot of
the hardware you could have problems such as with the sound, network card, and
that sort of thing, and a lot of people will have issues with that; and you need
to update the drivers regularly, but because many people aren't updating
their drivers, Microsoft started to push that out with their Windows updates.
So that is a good intention, however, it creates a lot of problems for people; and
when it doesn't work and you can't update it. You try to roll it back and it
wants to force itself back in. There is a way to disable that and stop Microsoft
from pushing the updates. So I'm going to show you how to do that right now.
So looking at a driver update, there could be... you'll see the manufacturer of
who provided the update. So a driver provider in this case here's Intel for
this audio driver, and if Microsoft updated it, it would say Microsoft here;
Instead of Intel; and you'll see the date when it was updated and what the driver
version is. So it's a good idea to have a look at this information which is in the
driver tab of the driver properties; and document that before you make any
changes. With this you can uninstall a device or try and roll it back if that
option is available or even update it. But if none of these options work, then
you're going to need to disable the ability of Microsoft to update it first,
and then you can go to the manufacturers website to update it. So let's get into
how to disable Microsoft's updating. So in the Start menu, if you click on start
and type in GPEDIT, then you'll see the Edit group policy. Now this is the
easiest way to do it, if you have Windows 10 Pro. If you don't have the Pro Edition
you're not going to be able to do this. So we'll make this a little bigger so
you can actually see it. Local Group Policy Editor, what you want to do is go
under the computer configuration and then administrative templates. You can
either double click on it or hit the little arrow to the left of it. Then you
want to go under Windows components and then scroll down in the bottom pretty well.
There is Windows Update. Now under the windows update, if you scroll down
you'll see an option here. Do not include drivers with Windows updates. So you can
double click to open that, and it says not configured by default. So you can
enable that and that will stop them from updating your drivers for all the
hardware in your computer through the windows updates. So you would just hit
Apply and OK, and that's it, it's in there. Then you can just exit out of here.
Now just a disclaimer is that before going into the other method, that it is
suggested to keep updates on and it's always a good idea because no one ever
really goes to the manufacturers website to look for driver updates. So it's a
good idea that Microsoft's at least taking care of this for you, unless you
know what you're doing and you're gonna be making a habit of doing your own
updates. So this first method I just showed you was for the Pro edition of Windows.
If you don't have Pro and you're on the
Home Edition, you need to go into the registry editor. Again when you click on
the start button, you can go to regedit. Then in here you want to go under the
Hkey local machine, under software, scroll down to policies, expand that, open
Microsoft and then you want to go to windows. You want to go into the next
folder or key which is called Windows Update. However if you don't have the
windows update folder, you'll have to create one. So to do that you can
right-click on the Windows key, go to new key, and then just simply type in Windows
Update, exactly how you see it written here. With the WindowsUpdate key, on the
right side of the screen here, you can right click and go to new Dword 32-bit value.
The key for this...
is ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate and you've got to type this in exactly
how it is here. If you don't, it may not work right. So I'll have the exact
location and names for everything in the description below the video. So when you
hit enter it'll save that. Then you can double click to open that up; and you
want to change the value from a 0 to a 1. Then hit OK. That enables that
ability, so that's all there is to that. So as long as you have the Home edition
of Windows you need to use the registry editor. Otherwise if you have the Pro
Edition, you can go through the first method I've shown you,
which is a whole lot easier. So anyway that's it for this tutorial.
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We'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.