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delta_p_delta_x | on: LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
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Someone1234 | parent | next
That's great, thank you.

What's frustrating about that is that Microsoft has also gone out of their way to make it difficult to access the [legacy] System Properties (sysdm.cpl), while not fully reimplementing all the features into the Settings app. Including this one.

They've only been working on this 10+ years...

efreak | root | parent | next
What's more frustrating than that is the inability to have more than one control panel open at a time. Have your post of issues software open and want to change display resolution real quick? Sorry, you've lost your place in the list. Security settings are a separate app, but it's even worse because it requires elevation _every time_ before it can reload the list of issues. You thought this executable was already bypassing whatever protection, so you elevate to open the list of exceptions...then lose your place in the log and have to elevate yet again to find out the details...and open each list item in turn because the main list doesn't provide enough details to know know which item you were looking at and there's no detailed view. But you still can't cross-reference against your list of exceptions and forgot to take a screenshot, so you have to start over.
delta_p_delta_x | root | parent
*.cpl, *.msc, etc are Windows sysadmins' (and developers') bread and butter; Microsoft will never get rid of them. I am betting (maybe hoping...?) that Windows 12 will undo the changes in Windows 8, 10, and 11 as bad experiments and return to what Windows has done best, which is discoverable GUI configuration. Let's see.
Someone1234 | root | parent
You're much more "glass half full" than me, but one can dream.
fuzzfactor | parent
Also found in the GUI:

  System > About > Advanced System Settings link > Hardware tab > Device installation settings
  Do you want to automatically download manufacturers' apps for your devices?
  set to No
The default setting has been "Yes" for a very long time but most monitors over the years have simply used the default plug-and-play Windows monitor driver instead of installing their own. Triggering no additional downloads for the life of most computers. It just so happens that monitor manufacturers better adhered to the Microsoft guidelines for hardware compatibility earlier and more adequately than most devices. This might very well have been a reliability tactic since graphics drivers were still quite a moving-target shitshow, which in some ways is still ongoing.

So people have mostly never gotten accustomed to monitor drivers having any consideration at all, while drivers for graphics themselves and other new hardware has often had some associated downloads that people have become familiar dealing with.

Looks like LG finally took this long-standing opportunity to do some deeper enshittification than previously imagined. Simply taking advantage of a domino effect that has been lurking for decades.

A couple other related gpedit options if you don't even want the drivers themselves to change after you have gotten them correctly installed:

  gpedit.msc
  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication settings
  Turn off Windows Update device driver searching
  Set to enabled
  OK
  
  gpedit.msc
  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage updates offered from Windows Update > 
  Do not include drivers with Windows Update
  Set to enabled
  OK