Windows 11 is keep installing the wrong AMD driver

I have the same issue - Dell laptop with a Ryzen 5 5625U. I install AMD's latest Radeon drivers and Windows Update yeets them right into the trash and downloads a driver from November 2021. Since it's Windows 11 Home, I have no obvious way to block this update, it is just installed.

This issue is still here as of 28/03/2023.

Windows 11 22H2, 5600G series APU. Fresh ISO install and bare system simply connected to a network. No DSIM / extra streamlined drivers.

> Disabling driver packages in Windows update (all of them) in Group Policy does NOT work

> Disabling driver updates for the Hardware ID in Group Policy does NOT work

> Pausing updates for a certain amount of time does NOT work

Another core problem is that when going from Windows 10 to Windows 11 you LOSE the ability to select what updates to install. No matter the setting, Windows 11 force-installs everything. We NEED an option to choose and to stop the downloads. Some graphics drivers are over 1 GB in size, downloading this on every power cycle is completely unacceptable.

All of our commercial and customer integrations now have to have Windows updates forcibly crippled, as the volume of support tickets has gone through the roof on this issue. As a result we are considering stopping OEM / Retail licensing all together whilst the update lock outs are not working.

Microsoft -

I see this problem has been around since 2022. It's now mid 2023 and the problem still exists.

Kindly fix your ****.

Thanks.

You're correct that it is not straight forward, but I am the OEM. I build my own computers from components since the 1980s. I've never had any problems with drivers. You see, my motherboard is an ASUS and the Radeon component is fully compatible with the ASUS motherboard. The driver for the Radeon has always been the originally installed AMD driver. It has always done its own update checks and updated without intrusion by Microsoft.

However, as a result of some Microsoft update, the OS manufacturer (guess who) began deleting the AMD drivers (yes, deleting them), and installing its own driver. It tells you that the Microsoft driver is all you need. It isn't. I had to go through a mammoth procedure with the help of AMD support to clean out all the Microsoft junk that wasn't working. I also had to change OS policies to allow the AMD driver to be installed, and change setting on the OS to prevent it from doing automatic updates of AMD Radeon software.

Sorry, but that is ALL on Microsoft. Just like they forever kept resetting my computer to shove Edge down my throat. Just like they blocked setting Google maps as the default maps handler. There are a ton of apps I have set as my default preferences. Unfortunately, they are not Microsoft. MS has removed perfectly good competitive 3d party applications from its app store. They've made it super difficult to select a non-MS app to handle a file from the Right Click (Open with) menu.

Any objective examination by an impartial party will confirm that Microsoft is illegally exercising its monopoly power in a highly anti-competitive manner. No doubt they filled some big lobby pockets to disable the enforcement of anti-trust laws. After their campaign to destroy Netscape and replace it with their inferior Internet Explorer, tightly bundling it with their OS, they lost the lawsuit. They were violating anti-trust laws. They are now as well, but they paved the way with legislation and party bribes. I am of the educated legal experience opinion that those laws should be again enforced and the MS anti-competitive monopoly should be stopped.

If you contact AMD Support and follow all their instructions, getting their driver to work includes shutting down Windows' automatic driver installations (their own). Even after you get everything ironed out, Microsoft keeps resetting your changes back to what they want every time they run an update. Sorry, the problem lies right at the feet of Monopoly Microsoft.

I have built my own computers since the 1980s, so all of them have been OEM, using the best components available, for example Asus motherboards. I have only had regular and consistent problems with Microsoft - ever. You can search here and you will find myriad cram-down nanny nonsense all over the place. The evidence is monumental. It's past time to drag them into Antitrust litigation.