Mike Tech Show – Podcast – #639 – 12-14-17
Windows 10 – Dealing with a hardware driver problem and then blocking further driver updates from Microsoft
(27 minutes)
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Show Links –
- Ken Rose’s “Bye-bye Brain Tumor” fund!
- Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
- Nvidia drivers
- Boot Windows 10 in safe mode
- Run the Display Driver Uninstaller utility – DDU
- How to Stop Windows 10 From Automatically Updating Hardware Drivers
- How to Disable Automatic Driver Downloads on Windows 10
- HP Universal Print Driver for Windows
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I don’t have experience with the free edition of Bitdefender, but we’ve had uninstall problems with the paid version. For one machine, we used a safe-mode boot and their Uninstall_Tool.exe program. On a different PC, we reinstalled Bitdefender in order to get the uninstall to work correctly.