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What hardware is included on the 32.0.101.6881 drivers?

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‎09-30-2025 10:03 AM
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Sorry if this is not the right forum. I've been trying to block the installation of any new driver (since last year). But blocking the Intel Iris Xe Graphics hardware ID and the Intel Smart Sound Technology BUS hardware ID is only partially stopping the updates. The result is that the old driver breaks and I get the yellow exclamation, even though the old driver remains in place. I then find instances of the new driver in other files.

I have also tried to block the whole class of Display Adapters and Sound Adapters, but still, parts of the new drivers seep through and break the old drivers. Which makes me think that there's more than Display and Sound on this driver version.

The question is: Are there other hardware classes (besides display and sound) included in this driver that I need to block in order to stop this constant downgrade? Thanks

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‎10-01-2025 03:27 PM
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I imagine the question is convoluted. And maybe even wrong. Trying again.

So, what I'm trying to do is stop this driver (32.0.101.6881) update.

I have a block for this Class GUID (Display Adapter) - 4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318
And a block for this GUID (SmartSound) - 4d36e97d-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318

I just realized that if I try update the driver manually, using the .exe, and the block on. The update fails.
But as soon as I use Windows Update, with the block on. The driver gets half updated.
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So maybe there are no other hardware classes that need to be blocked, and my problem is that Windows doesn't respect the block entirely.

BTW, this is what I'm using as a "block".
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions]
"DenyDeviceClasses"=dword:00000001
"DenyDeviceClassesRetroactive"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DeviceInstall\Restrictions\DenyDeviceClasses]
"Display Adapter"="{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}"
"Intel SmartSound"="{4d36e97d-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}"

Any suggestions on how I can effectively block this driver update?

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