Whats the point of a driver rollback when windows just reverts automatically?

[nzoomed]

Got a computer here using an ASUS wifi adapter with an intel chipset, and last week I ran a windows update then next thing the wifi would not detect any wireless networks, rolled back the driver and all was good again, give it 24 hours and it automatically went back to the "newer" driver, so next thing i tried was removing the device from device manager and removed all traces of the drivers installed, downloaded and installed the latest version and once again was working again. Now this morning windows has taken it upon itself to just go back to the faulty driver, ironically the version I downloaded from intel was still far newer than what driver windows was automatically downloading.

Never had to do this before, but this group policy hack may be the solution.
You would think that telling windows to rollback should be enough to send the message that the newer version was causing issues.
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1465...river.html

[king1]

had a similar issues a few years back when the AMD video drivers were causing all sorts of grief... I think i did something similar and disabled all the driver updates

The other option is to just install a different wifi adapter that likely won't have the same problem

[nzoomed]

Yeah might need to find another wifi adapter, but this ASUS unit is not particuarly old and was quite a high end PCI-e unit. Seems Intel is still providing support for it going by the date of the driver.
Never really ran into too much issues with this other than that prolific serial driver that could detect those counterfeit chips that were in countless devices.

[Wainuitech]

Simple Fix.

There's a neat little tool MS had / Have, you get the computer running  (on old drivers that work) Run the tool and block the update.

Had to do this MANY times on AMD computers, Microsoft tried to put in newer drivers and all hell broke loose. block the AMD driver - All fixed.

Download from   HERE

[nzoomed]

Simple Fix.

There's a neat little tool MS had / Have, you get the computer running  (on old drivers that work) Run the tool and block the update.

Had to do this MANY times on AMD computers, Microsoft tried to put in newer drivers and all hell broke loose. block the AMD driver - All fixed.

Download from   HERE

Ive used that tool in the past, might be an option.