Device Installation Settings issue

Discussion in 'General Software' started by atwl77, Jul 4, 2017.

  1. atwl77

    atwl77 Just Started

    Anyone experience Win10's Device Installation Settings randomly resetting back to "Yes"? It's darn annoying, random, and so far I haven't found out any particular trigger or pattern yet.

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  2. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    What Windows 10 edition are you using? Home or Pro? There's a workaround to edit group policy.
     
  3. atwl77

    atwl77 Just Started

    Both. My Thinkpad laptop is on Win10 Pro, and my MSI uses ordinary Win10. Both randomly have settings reset out of nowhere. I didn't even realise the settings got reset until suddenly out of the blue, my mouse driver gets updated.
     
  4. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

  5. atwl77

    atwl77 Just Started

    I found the cause of the setting change. In Devices and Printers, if you allow Windows to collect device information from the Internet, it will automatically change the Device Installation settings back to "Yes".

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  6. Chai

    Chai Administrator Staff Member

    Weird, I can't find this option on my PC. Maybe I have already disabled it during Windows installation.
     

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