Windows 11 is keep installing the wrong AMD driver

I've not experienced Windows Update failing to install new drivers that Windows later goes on to install in the background so I can't replicate this specific problem. I'm surprised to read that it's even possible.

On my laptop what I did was a totally fresh Win 11 installation (using the Windows Media Creation Tool) and then installed the Dell drivers then the AMD Radeon Drivers then ran Windows Update manually and it went ahead and installed it's own old Windows Update drivers. I was able to blacklist those drivers as described earlier in the thread and the problem has never returned for me.

I shouldn't have needed to jump through these hoops in the first place but I suspect it's because Microsoft wants to give OEMs (such as Dell and HP etc) greater control to not have 'untested by the OEM' drivers used on these OEM devices.

just simply do this one time after it automatically updated to its wrong version. boom now it's never gonna roll back to that previous wrong AMD Adrenaline edition. it keeps with a working version of yours. ps: don't reply to me :)

yes, just keep the unwanted version from WU in your PC, then WU will not update again(at least for a long long time).

That is another of MS's absolute BS. Why in the world would they cancel the changes immediately when you do a manual update? And, would they warn you that would happen? Of course not. All their idiotic nanny nonsense is for their benefit. To cram more and more of their **** software on you. Check what they did with their store - removing every app from companies that legitimately compete with what they want to shove on you, and other settings. They are the WORST greedy, anticompetitive monster monopoly on earth. Shame on Bill Gates. Part of their protocol is to have sycophants brainwashed into pushing their propaganda pseudo answers on this platform. If you've ever tried to reach out to MS official support, you know what a nightmare of total BS that is. There is no support. Their company policy is to hide under a mountain of garbage excuses and gatekeeping that makes you waste days upon days of time and sends you back to the beginning of their hidden procedures to get back to the same starting point with absolutely no resolution and no satisfaction. A fight over their insane licensing confusion always ends up in them extorting a new ransom licensing fee, along with the BS that they're a software company, not a hardware company like Apple. Well that's another crock. Google is a software company. I've never been charged exorbitant licensing fees by them (except for cloud managed databases). How about the myriad of Linux distributions? How about Libre Office and the many Open Source alternatives that are as good or better than Microsoft alternatives? They're just plain crooks, a gigantic criminal enterprise organization.

Sorry, I checked. The AMD community seems to not allow direct links of your signed on searches. So, go there, community.amd.com; then choose from the menu, support forums, and under that drivers & software. Within that I just searched for Radeon Software and Driver Version do not match solution. That thread is mind-boggling -- and it's ALL due to Microsoft's BS. Your best path is to contact AMD support, gather the diagnostic data they need, and follow their instructions. They're much better than what you'll get from MS. And you'll still have to go back to fix it again when MS breaks it again.