Windows 10: How to Enable or Disable Including Driver Updates in Windows Update in Windows 10

By default, Windows 10 will automatically download and install drivers in Windows Update when they are available.

Starting with Windows 10 build 14328, there's a new policy included that you can use to enable or disable to include drivers with Windows updates. This can be handy if you prefer to download and install your drivers from the device manufacturer instead.

Starting with Windows 10 build 15002, Microsoft has added an option in Settings that will now allow you to turn on or off including driver updates when you update Windows. This option was removed in Windows 10 build 15019.

Update: Microsoft updates Driver Shiproom Schedule for 2020 in Windows 10

Microsoft is continuing to look at ways to improve the update experience on Windows 10 PCs. As part of this effort, Microsoft is conducting an experiment related to how they deliver driver updates through Windows Update. During this experiment, drivers categorized as “optional” will not be automatically downloaded and installed on Windows Insider’s PCs running View optional updates[/B] and manually download these drivers. This experiment will be running now through March 5th, 2020.

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Windows 10 update being enabled.

My experience was that disabling Windows Update service works for a while until suddenly that service is magically enabled again and starts updating everything.

 

Windows 10 update being enabled.

Good to know, i will check later to see if it's still disabled.

 

Windows 10 update being enabled.

I like Winaero Tweaker better. You can use it to disable Windows Update on W10 with one click too. There's also a good article on Winaero.com describing the manual methods for disabling it.