{"id":548,"date":"2015-08-22T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2019-02-07T04:39:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T04:39:44","slug":"prevent-windows-from-downloading-broken-drivers-from-windows-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Prevent Windows From Downloading Broken Drivers From Windows Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.aidanfinn.com\/2015\/08\/prevent-windows-from-downloading-broken-drivers-from-windows-update\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aidanfinn.com\/2015\/08\/prevent-windows-from-downloading-broken-drivers-from-windows-update\/\">http:\/\/www.aidanfinn.com\/2015\/08\/prevent-windows-from-downloading-broken-drivers-from-windows-update\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Method 1 \u2013 Manual Change<\/p>\n<p>Open up System &gt; Advanced System Settings &gt; Hardware &gt; Device Installation Settings.&#160; Set it to No, Let Me Choose What To Do and set Never Install Driver Software From Windows Update.<\/p>\n<p>Method 2 \u2013 The Registry<\/p>\n<p>Open REGEDIT and set both of these REG_DWORD values to 0:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\DriverSearching\\SearchOrderConfig <\/li>\n<li>HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Device Metadata\\PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.aidanfinn.com\/2015\/08\/prevent-windows-from-downloading-broken-drivers-from-windows-update\/ Method 1 \u2013 Manual Change Open up System &gt; Advanced System Settings &gt; Hardware &gt; Device Installation Settings.&#160; Set it to No, Let Me Choose What To Do and set Never Install Driver Software From Windows Update. Method 2 \u2013 The Registry Open REGEDIT and set both of these REG_DWORD values to 0: HKLM\\SOFTWARE\\MICROSOFT\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\DriverSearching\\SearchOrderConfig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}