Re: How to stop drivers being auto-installed from Windows Update?

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From: peter (peter_at_nomalarky.net)
Date: 04/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:36:53 -0600

I find that when I disconnect from the net the update wizard has nothing to
install other than its plain vanilla XP ATI driver.This is what I do when I
upgrade my Radeon drivers.
peter
"Andrew McDonald" <myrmecophagavir@no-spam-thanks.bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:ekuIZkyJEHA.556@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Every so often ATI releases a new driver for their graphics cards. So I
download it and uninstall
> the previous one, as you're supposed to. This requires a reboot. When the
machine has restarted,
> Windows recognises that there's a device with no driver - but instead of just
using a small default
> graphics card driver, it uses my broadband connection to go straight to
Windows Update without
> asking me, downloads a driver for the card, and installs it! This is an
utterly pointless step since
> I'm about to install the latest driver anyway, which usually won't be on
Windows Update for months.
>
> How can I stop Windows automatically installing drivers from Windows Update
like this? A prompt
> before dowload and another before install at least would be courteous.
>
> Andrew
>
>

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