Testers of Microsoft's latest operating system upgrade, Windows 10, might have found a way to keep mandatory updates from taking a toll on their computers. The solution comes as a tool from Microsoft itself, which is available for optional download.

Ever since the tech company confirmed its mandatory updates last week, the Internet was flooded with posts of concerned techies about the potentially catastrophic effects it will cause. Forbes for one, talked about how these updates affected NVIDIA video cards. Evidently, the automatic Windows 10 updates conflicted with updates for graphics engines which make use of 'Nvidia GeForce Experience'.

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"PC components and peripherals come with bundled software that automatically manages driver updates already," says Forbes contributor Gordon Kelley. "PC makers also often bolt on driver update management software onto their PCs (Lenovo is a notable example) which then has the potential to conflict with driver updates delivered by Windows Update."

Some of the most common issues users, particularly gamers, are reporting include setting up dual monitors, configuring dual-cards, as well as PC booting problems which immediately set off the Windows 10 emergency recovery mode.

Windows 10 Home offers absolutely no means of blocking unwarranted security updates and new features. Even the Pro edition has only limited control over updates. Because of this, an increasing number of people have taken to social media to voice their concerns regarding the driver issues, and most want little more than to have the control over their drivers returned to them.

Fortunately, an article in ZDnet has found a way to stop these automatic updates, and it comes in the form of a well-hidden troubleshooting package from Microsoft itself: KB3073930. Upon downloading it, the troubleshooter gives users the option to show or hide updates. Clicking the "hide update" button opens up a dropbox listing all the active updates that can be taken out of the equation.

However, to accomplish this, the user first has to identify which update has potentially caused the problem with the unit, and to uninstall the said update or remove the problematic driver. This troubleshooting package was intended to be used with the Windows 10 Insider Preview, but testers claim that it should work with the final product which is set for release on July 29.

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