How To Stop Generic Driver Installation

May 7, 2012

This laptop has Windows 7 Premium Installed. I want to install a HD Audio Driver of my choice.

When I uninstall the Generic Windows 7 HD Audio Device Driver The driver is automatically re-installed on restart.

Windows 7 Premium does not have GpEdit.msc installed. An earlier version I came across (version 1.0 on the internet) has limited capability.

How do I prevent Windows Windows 7 from Automatically installing the driver?

Is there a registry entry I can edit to prevent installation of Generic Drivers or specific Generic Drivers i.e HD Audio Device Driver.

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How To Stop Win 7 Driver Software Installation ?

Mar 9, 2009

I have a problem with windows "Driver Software Installation".

I have an Audigy 2 ZS card installed. Every time I boot the

machine the ""Driver Software Installation" starts and finalize

with saying that the card is ready to use. This is not correct

as there is no sound. Every time I reboot the same thing happens.

Now, I have disabled Windows Update, I have disabled the devices

etc. but nothing stops this ""Driver Software Installation" from

starting at the next boot.

I would like to install Daniel Kawakami's Audigy_SupportPack_2_18_0001_W7

but when I start, it says it can not install untill I have rebooted

from a previous install which is the "Driver Software Installation"

failed installation. And rebooting of course starts the "Diver Software

Installation" again.

Is there any way to disable the ""Driver Software Installation"?

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I have a new Windows 7 laptop. I want to have the dual boot with XP. I'm using the following link to set dual boot: Dual Boot Installation with Windows 7 and XP. I have XP CD & I'm now trying to install XP first, to be able to use Method-1 (When XP is Installed First)

But once it reaches installing XP, I get the Blue Screen:
STOP 0000007B
0xF78D2524, 0xC0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000

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Jul 28, 2010

Working on a fresh install of Windows Ultimate. Got everything in place, programs, etc. Still trying to troubleshoo the built-in webcam problem (not starting up, "Need WIA driver" stuff). I found a driver for it from the manufacturer but right away I noticed it didn't work, the cam didn't work and so I attempted to roll back the driver. I then noticed that generic icons replaced many of the icons in my Start menu and task bar. I decided to do a system restore back to the point before I tried the new driver. No dice. Same problem exists. Then I went searching the forums for some ideas, many of which include deleting and rebuilding the icon cache, making the cache bigger, cleaning the dead entries from the registry, etc. I tried manually fixing the icon (replacing them) but the "change icon" command returns "cannot find" icon file. I went to look in the Windows/Installer folder and there is NOTHING in there except for a $PatchCache$ folder. The shortcuts for the generic icons do lanch their applications properly, fortunately. I've tried a lot of stuff, but nothing seems to work. This is so annoying. I put a lot of work into rebuiliding this system and I don't want to have to rebuild it all over again. All because of a stupid, lousy little web cam driver!