PolicyPlus VS wumgr

Let's begin by setting things up: use the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) or Policy Plus (if the Group Policy Editor isn't available). Go to "Computer configuration > Administrative Templates > System" and double-click the "Specify settings for optional component installation and component repair" entry. Then, set it to "Enabled" and specify a valid source.

Cough. Though, I see no reason to run Windows 11 Home over Windows 10 Pro if you unless you really like the Windows 11 UI.

It is actually possible to enable group policy editing on non-Pro versions of Windows. There's a FOSS program called Policy Plus that will let you change it, though with less functionality if you don't want to resort to command line shenanigans.

If you don't have access to group policy editor, give Policy Plus a try. It's an open source alternative for the editor that works on Home edition as well.

With this being said, under the hood, the guts of the group policy framework are still fully intact on the other Windows editions. You can't use Microsoft's fancypants editor to control it, but they can't stop you from using a third-party editor like PolicyPlus.

In Windows Pro, use Group Policy (Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update) or for Windows Home read over and consider Policy Plus ( https://github.com/Fleex255/PolicyPlus -- read the whole README ). Or registries keys as in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/waas-restart#registry-keys-used-to-manage-restart but it's tricky to get Configure Automatic Updates/AUOptions set with all its options.

Update 1: I downloaded PolicyPlus from github because I wanted to have a look around, and I found out that i can access Administrative Templates and specifically the policies that i need to disable to unblock driver installations. However, all the policies say they are not configured, which is contradicting what Windows is saying. Anyone ever used Policyplus before?

List of softs I use : https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html BSV - it helps to see what happens in a minidump file https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html driverview - helps you find any driver installed in your computer to see what’s linked to it https://learn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/ WinDbg - Actually the mastermind in this process https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr WuMgr - To disable windows automatic update when you DDU something or you uninstall any driver, which allows you to install the RIGHT driver you want without Windows telling you what you need. https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html DDU - helps you fully uninstall a driver, graphics or sound.

Do what I told you. Next when your laptop is on and rocking Go and download WuMgr it's a lightweight Windows Update and Driver Update Manager that is way more accurate than Windows Update, and let you disable Automatic Update. It is more than REQUIRED to disable it because it downloads without your permissions some bs drivers sometimes or unhelpful Windows updates.

I would suggest you to use WuMgr

this is what i use, makes it super simple and even when i did all the shenanigans with event viewer and group policy it still always seemed to reset at times on it's own... this works though https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr

Use wumgr https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr.

If you want even more control over Windows Updates I suggest you to use Update Manager for Windows by David Xanatos (https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr).

The right place to get that wumgr software would be the repo of DavidXanatosa? Just checking because the last version (v1.1) is 4yo. https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr

https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr is what i use, you can actually disable/hide stuff the way you used to be able to without having to mess around with group policies that still seem to never work correctly or for some reason reset.

Interesting. I have Windows updates turned off, doing them periodically myself with wumgr, and my version of this file was already 1.1.20200.4. I last pulled updates about four months ago, so anything released March shouldn't have been on my system yet... D: