I'm a 30 year experienced admin and I can't believe I have to fight this hard to install a certified and signed printer driver. Since you want to disable the automatic installation not only from Windows Update but also others.
I would like to suggest you read this article. It's the only two methods to disable the auto installation:.
Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Resources for IT Professionals. Sign in. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Erwin Castellanos. Original Title: Default Printer Is there a way to avoid windows to change the default printer every time a new one is installed? This thread is locked. Restart your system, and Windows will no longer install drivers automatically. After the restart, Windows will not download drivers automatically.
To change that behavior in the future. As you can see, it is rather easy to disable automatic driver installation in Windows Follow any one of the above methods, and you should be good. If you are wondering, the above settings especially group policy settings should stay intact even after you upgrade to another major Windows 10 version.
If they are not, you can always re-configure them by following the above steps. Is there another fix for this? I've disabled that option, as well as every other network discovery option in all network profiles, but Windows 10 keeps finding and adding every printer on the network. It's not the print server pushing because all our drivers are distributed through there and the printers automatically added via Windows 10 do not work since they do not distribute their own drivers.
For anyone still looking at this, I think you can disable just the automatic printer setup using the following registry key:. Hi brian03, what was the answer? Adding the registry key?
If so, I don't have that key and want to create it. Did you have to do anything else like that? Or did just adding the registry value in itself work? The way I did it was to export that entire key containing all of the values and import it into my server. It then showed the option to modify it via GPO as previously stated.
Hope this helps. Windows Registry Editor Version 5. Ok guys I work in a company
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