- #Windows 10 wont let me install nvidia drivers how to#
- #Windows 10 wont let me install nvidia drivers drivers#
How it stands now, people even disable WU or use third party who-knows-what-they-are-doing tools just to not be hit with unwanted and often even older drivers delivered and this can’t be good. If old installed drivers are known to be vulnerable some sort of (annoying) pop-up could be employed to let people know. Defaults should be to check on daily basis, similar to Defender but with options to defer (3 months?). If I were in position to advise Microsoft on dealing with gamers minority needs, I’d tell them to separate drivers updates from WU, make a UI dealing with just drivers and have a GPO to disable this for businesses.
While Enterprises have / should have tools and procedures for drivers’ updates and deployment, gamers don’t. Gamers and Enterprise admins supposedly do.
#Windows 10 wont let me install nvidia drivers how to#
The majority of people, both home users and business users don’t know how to deal with drivers updates. From Microsoft point of view this is a major problem as this damages not only user’s experience but also Microsoft reputation (most would put blame on Microsoft anyways). Outdated drivers could be vulnerable (you could check security bulletin for such, this isn’t uncommon) or cause Windows instability. It can be that these mentioned registry values can have different meaning under different versions of Windows 10.Ĭlick to expand.There could be pretty good reasons why Microsoft feels the need to force update drivers. Just set "SearchOrderConfig"=dword:00000000 PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork 1 = enhanced icons disabled PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork 0 = enhanced icons enabled "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Device Metadata" The "zero" is trigerred automatically by a combination of registry keys SearchOrderConfig 1 + PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork 0, if you were to manually change SearchOrderConfig to zero, it does nothing if PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork is not enabled.
SearchOrderConfig 3 = No, let me choose what to do, Never install driver software from Windows update SearchOrderConfig 2 = No, let me choose what to do, Install driver software from windows update. SearchOrderConfig 1 = No, let me choose what to do, Always install the best. SearchOrderConfig 0 = Yes, do this automatically But searching the inet I see a set of opinions on its values: Registry key is "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DriverSearching".