Question Windows keep resetting my drivers

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This issue keeps persisting, and started about months ago. Whenever I restarted my laptop, the network driver could not connect to any of the 5G bandwith of any WiFi network, and could only connect to the common 2.4g ones. I found out that doing a uninstall and reinstall of the driver in the Device Manager helped fixed that, but became so tedious when I had to do it everytime I restarted it.
I had another issue regarding my graphics drivers, the AMD Radeon Software keeps the drivers up-to-date always, and sometimes whenever Windows just decied to do a full reset of every driver, I couldn't initiate the Software because it keeps telling to do a full reinstall of the driver because it is outdated. So I had to do it also everytime I do a restart.
I discovered a common issue of Windows Update resetting drivers during updates, but not during restarting your PC. So I had created a new value in the Windows Software Policy folder in regedit inorder to disable Windows Update from doing that, and also had ticked the option to keep the drivers whenever doing any updates. But even then, it didn't fully stop from reseting the drivers everytime i restart.

I am at dead end here, and could not figure out any ways to fix this. Doing a full factory reset of Windows is my only last resort, but I'm too afraid to do so because there are so many important stuff in here that I could somehow forget backing it up, and completely erase it from existence.
 
If you get it temporarily working OK with the right drivers, you could make an image of all partitions on the boot drive and then restore that image the next time you got in a jam. That would let you keep whatever customizations you made that would not be found in a factory reset.

Might take a half hour to restore the image. Still a pain, but maybe better than any other alternative.

Conceivably, System Restore might help?

Disappointing to hear that the driver update defeat control in Windows is ineffective. I've never had to use it.
 
I had that recently after windows 10 automatically updated the intel usb 3.0 extensible host controller driver, roll it back and hide further updates for that driver. Also I don't think the problems started until Windows tried to install KB5008212.
 
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