Windows 10: can i somehow remove a specific driver from my windows oem

so i have bought a laptop Gigabyte G5 me and it had a cutom Graphics driver that comes form manifacturer which coincidently idk where to find cuz in driver section on their website i barely have a drivers in there and i installed windows 10 on it cuz it came withouth the os and everything was fine and dandy untill one day i decided to update my drivers and got a recomendation to use intel driver assistant which recomended me intalling the intel iris driver which was for the cpu integrated graphics little did i know it somehow over writen my gigabyte oem drivers and it keeps reinst

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How to remove unwanted OEM Windows driver or app updates

This became worse and worse over the last 1-2 years. MS did more and more to remove the possibility for users to remove driver updates or Apps which are pushed through Windows Update for devices, especially for laptops. This then includes tons of unwanted Software, Touchpad, Sound, OEM apps, ect. Or just Intel iGPU or Nvidia GPU drivers, which are old OEM builds for example by Dell. This then includes services and UWP apps too.

In the beginning, you could easily disable driver updates through control panel system. This doesnt work anymore since over a year now. I am not sure if this is a bug, or MS secretly deactivated the functionality.

Then they also removed the specific driver and OEM app updates from the Update list, most updates are not listed anymore in the installed update list, you cant remove them anymore after Windows installed them.

wushowhide.diagcab doesnt work too anymore 100%. Most driver updates you flag with them are ignored and Windows still installs them. Most OEM app updates are not even listed to hide.

I had so many issues over the past months on my Dell XPS laptop, because of Windows just pushes and forces broken drivers or apps through Windows Update, and then even ROLLS back drivers. I have literally no control anymore over my PCs.

Here is an example:








These forced OEM app updates are not listed in the Updates to remove list. These driver updates are forced through even you deactivated the functionality in several ways. That yellow flagged Intel Media SDK, for example, is broken since weeks and Windows tries to install it everyday and fails.

How do I remove for example the unwanted OEM app "Waves - SoftwareComponent - 5/15/2018 12:00:00 AM" which runs as a service in the background all the time I dont want. Same as "9NB9SRTL2KPT-WavesAudio.WavesMaxxAudioProforDell".

This is just unbelievable. There has to be a way to deactivate this out of control nonsense. And also remove the already installed updates.

 

How to remove unwanted OEM Windows driver or app updates

... you dont understand the problem. Anyone, please? These OEM apps are PUSHED THROUGH WINDOWS UPDATES for specific device IDs, for example specific laptops. And cant be removed in a classical way. Example:





They are handled by Windows like drivers and cant be removed.




There is no way to remove or deactivate these types of updates.

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .