Windows 10: Hidden driver update keeps returning

Good morning, tenors,

I have an HP 10-e, basically a nice touch screen netbook. It was designed for Win 8, and took the upgrade to Win10 very nicely, except for the display driver. The notebook began to perform very sluggishly once I had completed all the updates. In task manager I saw that the System process was taking up about 30% of the CPU constantly.

I traced the problem to the AMD display driver (machine has an A4-1200 cpu). I uninstalled the device and its driver, and everything was perfect again. I then ran the update hider utility, and thought my problem would be over. But it returned.

So I uninstalled the driver again, then ran the update hider, and now it said there were no updates to hide. I thought, ok, the last unwanted driver install must have been in the pipeline before I ran the hider, but this time my previous block has taken effect. To be sure, I checked for any updates, and there were none. I thought I had beaten the problem.

But today I started the machine, and watched as the driver install module labored to install a large driver. Sure enough, my nemesis is back, destroying the usability of the machine.

Frankly, the lack of end user control in Win10's update scheme is a scandal.

But anyway, how can I prevent the AMD driver from updating?

BTW, I have looked for a better AMD driver, and have found none any better for this machine. The generic MS driver works well, if I could only only keep it.

:)

 

Windows update keeps replacing ALPS Touchpad driver with a Synaptics driver.

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to uninstall and delete the previous drivers and the latest drivers for the touchpad and install the required version of the driver from Device Manager by following the steps below:

• Press Windows key + X and select Device Manager from the list.
• Expand the Touch pad driver.
• Right click on the driver and click on update/install.
• Select the required version from the on-screen prompts.

And for the problem with the installation of printer drivers, I suggest you to run the Windows Update troubleshooter by following the steps below:

• Type “Troubleshooting” in search box and press Enter.
• Click on “View All” option on top left pane.
• Select “Windows Update” from the list and follow the prompts for troubleshooting.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to
write to us for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Windows 10 fails to update


When you finish testing the Avast suggestion, make sure that you restart your machine.

Then if the issue persists, please return to the trouble shooting list in post# 89

I think there are three steps that remain; the WU troubleshooter, reset WU components, and manual WU reset.

 

Vista Pre-SP1 vs. Vista SP1

I've been Windows Updating for two straight days and I finally saw SP1. If you want to troubleshoot it, follow these steps:

• Show hidden updates
• Manually install any failed updates (google the KB_____ and install from the windows site)
• Make sure everything in Device Manager is good to go

I had to do step two for like 4 or 5 updates to be able to see SP1.

Any other benchmarks you guys want to see? I might try PCMark05 (I think it works on Vista).