Windows 10: Windows keeps downloading NVIDIA graphics drivers

Hello all.

Not sure what the deal is, but Win10 keeps automatically downloading NVIDIA graphics drivers and software, even though I don't have any NVIDIA hardware. The proper Microsoft graphics drivers are installed.

I did google this and tried to "hide" these updates via some Powershell commands, but everytime I delete the NVIDIA drivers, windows just redownloads them.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Windows 10 and compatibility with NVIDIA windows 10 driver 355.82

I have windows 10 installed and was notified by NVIDIA about an update to their graphics driver. I tried to install the update from Nvidia, Nvidia Windows 10 Driver 355.82. However the installation failed and the screen notification read as follws:

"This NVIDIA graphics driver is not compatible with this version of windows.

This graphics driver could not find compatible graphics hardware."

Prior to using Windows 10 all Nvidia updates downloaded successfully.

I have also fed back this info to NVIDIA.

 

Nvidia driver major issue in WINDOWS 10

It really feels bad when a well working PC shows abnormal behavior after having an upgrade which is highly in demand.

I would suggest all facing this issue to please UPDATE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVER FROM WINDOWS UPDATE AND YOUR NVIDIA DRIVER FROM "NVIDIA WEBSITE" BEFORE WINSDOWS UPDATE INSTALLS THE NVIDIA DRIVER. THE LATESE NVIDIA DRIVER IS PRESENT IN ITS WEBSITE, SO
PLEASE BE SPECIFIC WITH YOUR NVIDIA GRAPHICS CARD MODEL AND ITS DRIVER FOR WINDOWS 10.

Better keep the nvidia driver 353.63 windows 10 qualified driver downloaded and ready before upgrading. Hope everybody of you succeed in this process.

 

Ever had Nvidia hardware? Perhaps search the registry and see what comes up. be careful before changing things in there though.....

 

No sir, never any NVIDIA hardware. This only started happening after installing Win10 from Win7.

 

That's odd. Does it say what device its trying to attach the driver to?

 

It sure didn't. My device manager showed everything was fine with no missing drivers. I did search my registry like you talked about and had to delete many NVIDIA folders that were in a few places. Not sure why they were there, but I deleted them all. I'm seeing if windows downloads them again. Will check back with results.

 

Hope you backed up registry just in case....

 

Looks like m registry deletes didn't work. As soon as I restarted, windows downloaded and installed nvidia again...arg....below are the screen shots...Windows downloads those three files everytime.

 

Looks to me like you have a GT 550M and it needs new drivers.... Lots of PCs have a card plus integrated video on the motherboard, that looks to be the case with yours. Have you tried just letting it update the drivers?

 

Ok, now I feel like an idiot. I always thought I just had that Intel graphics, but I just looked up my system configuration sheet from Dell, and sure enough, it has the NVIDIA 550M video as well.

Thanks for your help!

 

No worries! Folks here have helped me a lot; happy to give back!