[Win11] How to stop Windows Update replacing AMD Driver and disabling AMD Adrenaline?

First, thank you for you kind response!

Second, unfortunately the link you attached seems to not open.

And I cannot find this troubleshooter you're mentioning in the Microsoft Download Centre.

Do you have any other link?
Thanks!

Adding to what John said:

Please try "Method 3" (“Prevent installation of devices that match these device IDs” GPO) in this article.

So we are creating an error on ANY video card driver update to be able to block microsoft from installing old amd drivers on a updated system.

it does not work. and the older version of this program shows correctly the number of 3 updates pending. The new one only shows 2. :(

This is an almost weekly issue, and looking back seems to be happening daily. The ancient driver that M$ forces causes some epilepsy inducing flickering on certain programs. We should not need to attempt strange workarounds to get Windows to stop sabotaging our systems. There are 2.5 gpu brands out there, do some basic testing with something that isnt green.

So far so good, this tool was indeed what i needed for my rx 5500

thank you very much for this tool you made my life a lot easier

kudos

This post from June 13 is still wholly true today on Dec 10.

The windows updates are unavoidable: the most one can do is delay the inevitable. You can pause them for a limited time, you can delay certain processes or the final system reboot after installs, but all of those all expire on what seems to be Microsoft's post-update judgement day, somewhere around a week to a month down the road. It is absolutely outrageous that there is legitimately no solution being offered to this problem of forcing a nearly decade-old driver down customers throats while in doing so, removing the fully current and more advanced graphics driver from the manufacturer, essentially throwing one's whole computing system into disarray and requiring roll-backs or workarounds to just get back to operable status quo.

The kicker for my predicament is that I work using exclusively external displays: the native display panel on my Lenovo device is toast due to water damage, so even the simplest access to the system - let alone any navigation - is entirely impossible when this windows update hijacks my graphics driver and renders my external displays unrecognizable to the system. It's fine and dandy to tell users to execute some backend manual software rollback, but when I am literally operating blind without any display, not much good it does me as there's no way to navigate to the drivers panel, uninstall the 2014/2015 dinosaur of a driver and then manually seek out the manufacturers driver, install that and then be on my way...

So the fact that this problem is, as noted here in June and earlier (dating back to years and years ago in other threads), happening every update, and that there is allegedly no concrete way to stop this or fix it, is frankly reflective of a lack of interest on Microsoft's part. We are all customers. You make the software, the whole platform, the whole kit & caboodle. You DO have within you the wherewithal and capability to fix this ridiculous issue: either at the source, by fixing how your updates are replacing current drivers with old, incompatible ones; or, by providing a simple and fail-safe method for users to fully block automatic updates - not just for a day or a week, but fully block the force-fed updates that are rendering our operating systems unstable, ineffective or in my case, inoperable entirely.

As Ricky would say, "this isn't rocket appliances here boys"

Yah. Ridiculous problem to start with, but then these suggested manual workarounds - required every single update cycle - as though we're on the brink of AI singularity but can't possibly crack how to just update with the actual updated drivers. Feel like I'm taking crazy pills.