I was losing 4 hours recovering every time it updated undoing and manually fixing it. In my case, updating NVidia drivers caused a endless failed windows update loop when I was not connected to my corporate domain because of the Trend Micro software. How can I prevent Windows 8 from installing this nVidia bloatware? Preventing its automatic installation through Windows Update only appeared to reduce the frequency of the installations. Unfortunately, after several days I discovered the bloatware was secretly reinstalled again. Doing this at first appeared to solve the problem. From there, I also hid the update for convenience. However, in Windows 8, it's now delivered to me as an important update.Ĭonsequently, I changed the Windows Update settings to prevent the automatic installation of important updates to gain control of the installation of the nVidia software. In Windows 7, the nVidia software was delivered as a recommended Windows update. However, it didn't seem to make any difference. This seemed to be the most logical starting point. I have already disabled automatic driver installations in the Device Installation Settings dialog. I believe that previous versions of Windows already included compatible drivers and functioned correctly without the bloatware. I recall that previous versions of Windows didn't do this I chose whether and when to install the nVidia software. (I also don't use the 3D Vision driver.) None of these are needed for correct operation of the device, so they are bloatware to me.Įvery time I uninstall them, Windows reinstalls the whole lot without my permission the next time the computer starts. These include the system tray utility, automatic updater and Windows service. However, the software that is bundled with the drivers in the driver packages is not required for the operation of the device, and I don't want or use them. The drivers themselves are required for the device to operate, and they have been included with Windows for at least the last two versions.

Windows 8 is installing NVIDIA's bloated driver software packages on start-up.Ī number of negative responses to this question have shown misunderstands about the differences between the core drivers and the other software that is bundled with them.

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