Drivers & Software

[MaskedM4rvel]

Hello,

Sorry if I am bein an annoying n00b.. I have a lenovo laptop with "AMD Radeon Graphics" .. in device manager I can't seem to find any more detailed information on what my video card model I have. Unless I am missing something the auto detect feature on this site isn't working for me. I go here https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/gpu-driver-autodetect and all the links just take me in circles and I can't seem to find where to actually download anything. If I try to select my drivers manually to download, I can't because I don't know what my graphics card is as I said.

Problem number two is windows keeps updating my drivers. I have done the first two ways of disabling that listed in the link below (havent tried regedit yet) and Windows 11 keeps changing it on me. I posted a screenshot of my System Information in case that helps.

https://www.minitool.com/news/enable-disable-automatic-driver-updates-windows-11.html

Thanks

[kingfish]

Autodetect has been retired. You look up your driver manually. https://www.amd.com/en/support 

Look for 'Processors with graphics  > Read https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/gpu-56#faq-AMD-Product-Selector 

To stop Windows Update from changing drivers you prevent that with a group policy setting. Read > https://community.amd.com/t5/general-discussions/how-to-stop-updates-for-drivers-with-windows-update...

This is the only driver you install...it updates graphics drivers.

[MaskedM4rvel]

Thanks for the info about the specific driver I needed. I already changed the  group policy thing and windows is still updating the drivers on me. In that link I posted it shows 3 ways to disable auto update. I did the first two listed there which were the group policy thing and another method from settings, change device settings.... The third method is editing the registry, but I don't seem to have HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DriverSearching ... I get to Windows but there is no entry for DriverSearching

[kingfish]

I don't have that reg entry either..on Win11.

I think you should follow the steps in the link I posted one more time. Reboot after making the change. I have never heard of it not working.

[goodplay]

elevenforums.com has this regedit,

[MaskedM4rvel]

Is that something I can add to the registry and how would I do that?

[goodplay]

Option 2, start at step 3 in this Tutorial,

https://www.elevenforum.com/t/enable-or-disable-include-drivers-with-windows-updates-in-windows-11.2...

[MaskedM4rvel]

I have tried the group policy method at least half a dozen times. I thought I could maybe try disabling the windows update service but that might preventing anti virus or other things from updating?

Windows doesn't even ask even though I had it set to pause for 1 week also.. I'll just notice the little yellow dot on the tray..

[kingfish]

If you have Windows Home you need to enable Group Policy. It is disabled by default in Windows Home... and is active in Windows Pro.

https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/enable_group_policy_editor_in_windows_10_home_edition.html

[MaskedM4rvel]

I have enabled group policy which was a whole process in itself.. In order to even open the group policy thing in the screenshot above it would have to be enabled. As you said at first when I tried to run gpedit I would get an error message. As you see in the screenshot above gpedit is open and Do no update drivers is set to Enabled.

[kingfish]

Sounds good.

[MaskedM4rvel]

But Windows is still updating my AMD drivers though..  So I just want ahead and am trying out IOBit Driver Booster which seems to have good reviews.

[MaskedM4rvel]

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