Greetings everyone,
I installed Windows 10 on my laptop for the first time tonight and I was surprise by how invasive the OS is to our privacy. So I disabled as much tracking/information gathering options from Windows 10 in the Privacy settings. I also used Spybot Anti Beacon to make sure I caught everything.
Now to my surprised, Winwdows 10 installed ALL the drivers for the laptop (Chipset, GPU, audio, network etc...) Now I will be installing Windows 10 on my newly built gaming PC as soon as I get answers to my questions on this thread. So if you guys can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it
1. So I read there's no way to really disable automatic updates on Windows 10 Home Edition. So I will purchase Windows Pro. This website explains how to disable automatic updates by editing
the Local Group Policy Editor settings. Does this work and is this effective?
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-stop-updates-installing-automatically-windows-10
2. For my LAPTOP I'm also worried about Windows Update downloading and installing drivers for my hardware like my Chipset and GPU drivers. I've read there could be conflicts with your system and the automatic hardware driver updates, if you changed video cards. It might download and install Radeon drivers even though you switched to an Nvidia card. Or it may even install both Radeon and Nvidia drivers. Or it could update your current GPU driver which is more stable then the newer driver it installs. So I have a couple questions:
2a. I've read of a way to disable Windows Update from installing hardware drivers. You go to systems, then advance settings, then to the hardware tab. And then you disable automatic hardware updates in device installation settings. Does this method work?
2b. For my gaming desktop that I'll install Windows 10 Pro on, I won't need to worry about disabling hardware updates this since I'll control the updates from the Local Group Policy Editor settings, right?
3. Do I need to disconnect my Ethernet cable from my PC before I install Windows 10 Pro, for my new gaming desktop so it won't automatically download all my hardware drivers? Because I want to install them manually. Or does it only update my hardware drivers when I check for updates for the first time after I install Windows 10 Pro? When I installed Windows Home for my laptop, it was connected to my modem, so I think it was updating something. Is it mandatory to be connected to the internet to install Windows 10?
3a. Is it okay to just let Windows 10 update everything for this one time when I install it the OS for the first time. Then I can just disable automatic updates?
Thanks in advance for the help, I appreciate it!
I installed Windows 10 on my laptop for the first time tonight and I was surprise by how invasive the OS is to our privacy. So I disabled as much tracking/information gathering options from Windows 10 in the Privacy settings. I also used Spybot Anti Beacon to make sure I caught everything.
Now to my surprised, Winwdows 10 installed ALL the drivers for the laptop (Chipset, GPU, audio, network etc...) Now I will be installing Windows 10 on my newly built gaming PC as soon as I get answers to my questions on this thread. So if you guys can help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it
1. So I read there's no way to really disable automatic updates on Windows 10 Home Edition. So I will purchase Windows Pro. This website explains how to disable automatic updates by editing
the Local Group Policy Editor settings. Does this work and is this effective?
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-stop-updates-installing-automatically-windows-10
2. For my LAPTOP I'm also worried about Windows Update downloading and installing drivers for my hardware like my Chipset and GPU drivers. I've read there could be conflicts with your system and the automatic hardware driver updates, if you changed video cards. It might download and install Radeon drivers even though you switched to an Nvidia card. Or it may even install both Radeon and Nvidia drivers. Or it could update your current GPU driver which is more stable then the newer driver it installs. So I have a couple questions:
2a. I've read of a way to disable Windows Update from installing hardware drivers. You go to systems, then advance settings, then to the hardware tab. And then you disable automatic hardware updates in device installation settings. Does this method work?
2b. For my gaming desktop that I'll install Windows 10 Pro on, I won't need to worry about disabling hardware updates this since I'll control the updates from the Local Group Policy Editor settings, right?
3. Do I need to disconnect my Ethernet cable from my PC before I install Windows 10 Pro, for my new gaming desktop so it won't automatically download all my hardware drivers? Because I want to install them manually. Or does it only update my hardware drivers when I check for updates for the first time after I install Windows 10 Pro? When I installed Windows Home for my laptop, it was connected to my modem, so I think it was updating something. Is it mandatory to be connected to the internet to install Windows 10?
3a. Is it okay to just let Windows 10 update everything for this one time when I install it the OS for the first time. Then I can just disable automatic updates?
Thanks in advance for the help, I appreciate it!