Windows 10: Windows 11 is reverting video drivers to older version

Hi all.I have been having this issue some 3 weeks now. Windows 11 keeps reverting my video drivers to an older version.I have an Acer Aspire 5 notebook equipped with an Intel UHD graphics card. My monitor is a Samsung 32-inch 4K monitor that has 2 HDMI input ports, being HDMI1 @ 30hz and HDMI2 @ 60hz. I have been using it on HDMI2 at its native resolution of 3840x2160 @ 60hz for over a year now.The generic driver that came with Windows 11 was capable of this resolution and refresh rate and worked fine until a few weeks ago, when it got "updated" and stopped working with my monitor. In fact it

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Windows is reverting my graphics driver to an older version

I have an Acer Aspire E5 571 running Windows 10. The CPU is an Intel i5 5200U that has an iGPU Intel HD Graphics 5500.



The latest driver for this iGPU is the 20.19.15.5171 from 11/04/2020, downloaded from the official Intel website.



Windows reverts this driver back to 20.19.15.4531 from 09/29/2016, thinking it's the latest one.

As you can see, this isn't a case where the driver manufacturer got the version number wrong or where i'm trying to maintain an old driver, windows is actually installing an older driver over a newer one.

I've tried multiple methods to prevent windows from changing my drivers but it always goes back after a day or two. I also am prevented from updating the driver so I have to reboot my PC into safe mode and use DDU to completely remove the older driver before installing the new one.

I only felt bothered by this now because only now I noticed some games have a 2x performance boost with the newer driver.

What can be done about this?

By the way, the latest driver in the Acer website is 10.18.15.4248 from 2015/08/18.

 

revert back to older version of window

hi i wanted to revert back to older version of window 10 now is 1803 for my pc,just back to a maybe 1 or 2 version earlier will do.the reason i wanted to revert back to older version is because one of my exe file now get error in new version of window if
i am sure of it.so anyone know anyway to do it?

tips:i cant restore to older version using restore point because i just reset my laptop and all data previos data are gone..... thanks in advance

 

How to download older versions of Windows

Hello, I recently received a notification on my hp computer suggesting that I try Windows 11.
While I think Windows 11 is great, my laptop has a very slow processor and I have been experiencing far too much latency since I downloaded v.11.

Can I revert to any available older version of Windows?

Can I only revert to Windows 10 that was originally installed on this laptop?

Can I make this change while keeping

a) my apps

and

b) my information and files?

Thank you.