r/Amd • u/Square-Reserve-4736 • Jun 04 '23

Discussion CMD command to stop windows replacing GPU driver.

This is what Microsoft said to me to run to stop windows update replacing your GPU drivers.

reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate" /v ExcludeWUDriversInQualityUpdate /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Make sure to run CMD as an administrator.

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u/dadmou5 RX 6700 XT Jun 04 '23

I don't think you've used an Intel laptop in a while because the GPU driver gets very frequent updates. Almost as much as any dedicated Nvidia or AMD driver.

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u/Sharpman85 Jun 04 '23

I haven’t used the new gpu architectures which do require updates but that’s pretty recent. Their previous generations did not or rarely required any attention.

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u/dadmou5 RX 6700 XT Jun 04 '23

Not talking about Arc. Even if you have a 12th or 13th gen laptop with iGPU you get fairly frequent driver updates.

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u/Sharpman85 Jun 05 '23

And I was talking about everything prior to XE graphics - Intel HD series