Thanks, Windows Update

[porina]

 

Looks like today's Windows Update also included a "driver" update for my Corsair keyboard, that displays a popup telling me to install their software. No thanks. If I wanted the bloatware I would have already installed it. Question now is, how often this will happen and if I can stop it from ever happening again? Without installing the software.

[wANKER]

You can disable automatic driver updates

[GoldenLag]

i wonder how corsair managed to get this implemented as a "driver".

 

or how microsoft though this would be a "driver"

[porina]

5 minutes ago, wANKER said:

You can disable automatic driver updates

Any recommended method? In a quick search, I found 3 potential ways:

1. turn off a setting in advanced section of system settings, but it is unclear this is linked to Windows Update.
2. registry edit
3. policy editor (might not work on home?

 

[wANKER]

7 minutes ago, porina said:

Any recommended method? In a quick search, I found 3 potential ways:

1. turn off a setting in advanced section of system settings, but it is unclear this is linked to Windows Update.
2. registry edit
3. policy editor (might not work on home?

 

I've only done it through GPO (which is literally excluding them from Windows Update), so not sure on the success of the other methods.

[GoodBytes]

This has nothing to do with Windows. It is Corsair that gives these drivers/software to Windows Update servers for people who plug Corsair keyboards onto the system gets those drivers. If Corsair made a stupid utility that you don't like, well, so be it, buy something else.

 

This is probably in preparation of Windows October 2018 Update that has just been re-released, so that it doesn't fail, and you wonder which stupid drivers or program made the update process fail.

[porina]

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

This has nothing to do with Windows. It is Corsair that gives these drivers/software to Windows Update servers for people who plug Corsair keyboards onto the system gets those drivers. If Corsair made a stupid utility that you don't like, well, so be it, buy something else.

MS certification costs a ton of cash. It is a pain point in my day job. Both sides want to get value from the process. This would be less of a problem with the Win7 update model, not the force everything on user model of Win10.

 

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

This is probably in preparation of Windows October 2018 Update that has just been re-released, so that it doesn't fail, and you wonder which stupid drivers or program made the update process fail.

It's a keyboard. I don't really care about the RGB customisation, so don't care for additional software.