Windows 10: Why did Win 10 20H1 keep installing older Intel graphics driver even after newer version...

Hi


After manually installing Intel graphics driver v27.20.100.8336 from intel official website supporting WDDM 2.7 on Windows 20H1, the system automatically installed older version driver v26.20.100.7637 only supporting WDDM 2.6.


Windows version: 19041.330


Why and how to stop it?

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Windows 10 Updates installed older Intel Graphics Drivers

I just updated my Intel HD Graphics Drivers using the Intel Driver Update Utility. After successfully installing and rebooting my system, I noticed that Windows Update decided to reinstall the graphics drivers. I checked to find that the new drivers were
an older version. I had installed the 15.33.38.64.4252 drivers, and they were overwritten by the 10.18.15.4279 drivers.

My question is: why is this happening? How can I prevent Windows Update from overwriting drivers?

Thanks.

EDIT: Further investigating indicates that it wasn't Windows Update that was installing the older graphics drivers, it was the Intel Driver Update Utility that keeps getting old drivers. WU was trying to overwrite the old drivers that IDUU installed, and
that resulted in conflicts and blue screens. I uninstalled the drivers, let WU do its thing, and all is working fine.

My guess is that the 10.18.15.4279 drivers are the latest stable version, according to Microsoft. The manual download for these drivers are here (Download Intel® Graphics Driver for Windows® 10 [15.40][4th Gen]-). However,
the latest drivers are here (Download Intel® Graphics Driver for Windows® 10 [15.40][4th Gen]-),
but I guess these have yet to be signed off by Microsoft.

Can someone please confirm this? Should I download the latest drivers, or just leave it to WU?

Thank you.

 

Windows Update keeps installing older Intel Graphics driver

Windows 10 - 17134.191 Update insists installing and older Intel Graphics driver over the manually installed newest version available. Only started doing this recently. How do I stop this from happening?

 

Widows Update Still keeps installing the older versions of drivers.

This problem seems appears for a long time, but the latest version of windows still cannot deal it properly. I install the intel graphics driver from the official website after fully upgrade the system, but when I click update windows it keeps installing
the intel - Display driver(The older version of graphics driver).

OS build: 17134.376

PS: Can you guys just compare the driver version number before deciding if the driver needs update? But, the update won't install older version of nvidia driver.