How to block automatic driver update in Windows 10

Sometime you need to prevent a Driver from being installed from Windows Update. In some scenario you need to use a specific driver version because the next one can cause problems.

Microsoft provides a downloadable tool to do this. It’s intended for temporarily hiding buggy or otherwise problematic while they don’t work properly on your system.
You can download the “Show or hide updates” troubleshooter for Windows 10 from Microsoft.
When you run this troubleshooter, it will search for available updates and allow you to “hide” them, preventing Windows from automatically installing them. In the future, you can run this troubleshooter again and unhide the updates when you want to install them.

The following troubleshooter is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:  Download the “Show or hide updates” troubleshooter package now.

To run the troubleshooter, open wushowhide.diagcab, select Next, and then follow the instructions to find the driver updates and seletc those to hide and block.

I try in a real case to use this solution to block automatic update of Radeon Rx Vega 56 graphic card; I want to use only the AMD blockchain beta drivers (version 17.30.2029 released on 8/8/2017. Windows 10 try every time to update to a new version. I hope this solution block the update.

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