Intel NUC11PHKi7C GFX Driver keeps reverting from Windows Update

[SkullTrail]

When you install the latest driver GFX driver from the Intel downloads website SPECIFICALLY for the Intel NUC11PHKi7C, Windows Update uninstalls it and downgrades it to a generic, not for the NUC11PHKi7C, GFX driver. Current Intel driver 30.0.101.1191 and MS driver is 27.20.100.8935 How can you prevent WU from uninstalling the 30.x.x.x driver? Registry keys, device settings to prevent driver updates do NOT work. Every time you add a driver from the Intel website, WU reverts to a Microsoft driver. This is a CLEAN installation. Intel, if you are going to force drivers on WU, please use current ones or prevent current, newer and signed drivers from being uninstalled.

This is a HUGE security issue when newer drivers designed to mitigate problems are replaced with old, outdated and potentially risky drivers.

[AlHill]

Yes, it is a pain for sure that Microsoft keeps screwing with the drivers.

Update to the 1191 driver, and use the following MS tool to block the 8935 driver:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/53184.show-or-hide-updates-utility-fixin...

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Waiting for Windows 12]

[SkullTrail]

Thanks for the reply, but there have been changes to what you can do with WU in 21H2. I.e. less control over what you can or cannot install. The only solution that works, but is impractical, is to connect to a domain and use Group Policy Management to point WU to a WSUS server that you have control of. This, naturally, only shows the absurdity of the situation.

[AlHill]

I use the wushowhide tool on about six machines, with W10 21h2 and W11, and it works every time. 

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Waiting for Windows 12]

[SkullTrail]

Thanks. How would you block an update on a clean install? For example, you do a clean install without being connected. The second you are connected Windows updates without you touching WU. If you run the CAB diagnostic file it has no info to block - yet.

[AlHill]

Let windows install 8935.   Then, you install 1191.  Then, with the tool, you block 8935.

Doc (not an Intel employee or contractor)
[Waiting for Windows 12]

[SkullTrail]

Thanks. Looked for the new Microsoft wushowhide with the new sig.