Advice needed on windows update drivers


rezpower

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I just got a new Lenovo Legion laptop and I did a clean windows install on it. Windows found and installed ALL the drivers so I didn't need to install any device personally. The laptop is working fine and I only updated the Nvidia and Intel GPU drivers myself. When I go to windows update I see a long list of driver updates proposed. It it advised to use those updates or should they be ignored? Screenshot 2025-10-26 224058.webp
 

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Might as well if you already let windows install them to begin with…
Personally, I would avoid the nvidia one though. Do that manually.
 

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I agree with what dacrone says.

However If you don’t want drivers offered with Windows Updates.

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Enable or Disable Include Drivers with Windows Updates in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable including drivers with Windows Updates in Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Update will include drivers when available in Windows 11 by default. You can enable the Do not include drivers with Windows Updates policy to not include drivers...
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Never install WDC_SAM. That will break Core Integrity, and it's generally useless.

But that's the default "driver" for many Western Digital HDD's (which don't really need any drivers).
 

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Install them all, similarly those that the Lenovo Vantage app list, including video drivers, it really is that simple.
However my choice was to exclude Nvidia GeForce Experience and Lenovo Legion Arena App.

Directly from Drivers listed by Lenovo was a VBIOS update.
 

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Thanks guys. windows work in a very strange way! If windows downloaded and installed the drivers itself in the first place, god knows why it first installed an older version of those drivers and then five minutes later listed newer version!
@dacrone : Yes, I always install my GPU Drivers manually.
 

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Helmut said:
Install them all, similarly those that the Lenovo Vantage app list, including video drivers, it really is that simple.
However my choice was to exclude Nvidia GeForce Experience and Lenovo Legion Arena App.

Directly from Drivers listed by Lenovo was a VBIOS update.
Click to expand...
Thanks I will do that right now! If my laptop explode I will be back searching for you 😂
 

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    Laptop
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    Lenovo Legion 7i
    CPU
    Intel i7-12800HX
    Memory
    32 GB DDR5 4800 MHz dual-channel
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti
    Sound Card
    Steinberg UR44
    Hard Drives
    1 TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4
    2 TB SSD Samsung 980 PRO NNMe
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    Firefox
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    Windows Defender + Malwarebytes
garlin said:
Never install WDC_SAM. That will break Core Integrity, and it's generally useless.

But that's the default "driver" for many Western Digital HDD's (which don't really need any drivers).
Click to expand...
I think this was a long time ago! I remember that after installing that driver I could not longer enable memory integrity. But there have been updated versions since then and do no longer conflict.
 

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    Lenovo Legion 7i
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    Intel i7-12800HX
    Memory
    32 GB DDR5 4800 MHz dual-channel
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3070 Ti
    Sound Card
    Steinberg UR44
    Hard Drives
    1 TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4
    2 TB SSD Samsung 980 PRO NNMe
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender + Malwarebytes
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