Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers
Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.
Microsoft is on a mission to fix Windows 11, and part of that involves improving the often-frustrating Windows Update experience. While you’ll soon be able to pause updates indefinitely, Microsoft is also adding a new feature that automatically rolls back problematic drivers that have been installed through Windows Update.
Microsoft has created a new “Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery” feature that can replace a faulty driver installed on a PC with a previously working driver through Windows Update. Right now, Windows 11 users have to manually roll back a driver or hardware vendors have to publish a new one to work around any problems, but this new feature aims to make this process automatic.
“When a driver is identified as having quality issues during our...
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