#Stop windows 11 from installing install
#Stop windows 11 from installing drivers
#Stop windows 11 from installing update

#Stop windows 11 from installing install

So I thought I'd try install the intel driver SETUP file from MSI, the Optane driver.

Even though Crystal Disk Mark showed 7K read 5K write per drive, coping a large contiguous file which should give max speed would only copy at 200 mb/s. For example, I have my 4TB initial raid setup as the 2 individual 2TB drives now. However, for some reason, there is some component that is not correct with the MSI driver page that doesn't allow the drives to write to full extent.

#Stop windows 11 from installing drivers

Now if you do a fresh install of windows 11 like I did to avoid the Norton malware and have a clean system, you'll need to use the F6 driver when you load the windows installer USB at startup to load the drivers for these drives anyway. I had no device issues in device manager either. Now I thought I had aced it, as I did all windows updates, and everything was fine. Use the downloads on the MSI GT77 support page to install all drivers.

#Stop windows 11 from installing update

Look for Administrative templates which should be 3 down from top leftĬhoose windows components then you'll see an option to control what windows update can downloadĬhoose the 'prevent windows update from installing drivers' setting and click on enabled. The thing is, since the GT77 comes with windows pro, you can press windows/run and type gpedit.msc Now I thought my win 11 iso might have been corrupt or that RUFUS created a bad install USB so I wiped it and did it all over again with the official Microsoft tool. I have done multiple fresh installs, to the point I deleted all partitions and created new ones and then formatted them again to be safe and then install windows fresh.Īll is good until win update installs that driver. And when you try and open the windows settings app again, all you'll get is a blank white screen with a gear icon in the middle until you do a system reboot. You can NOT force terminate it no matter what you do. What happens is when you reboot, settings will work once or twice, but when you close the window, the settings app closes in task manager but the process gets stuck and won't shut off. Even an entire windows installation (keeping installed apps) did not fix it. I have tried a reinstall, repairing and resetting the settings file and everything you can think of to no avail. One of these corrupts the entire OS settings file. What was happening was, I'd do a fresh Windows install, then install the MSI drivers till everything was working in device manager properly, then I'd enable my wifi network, then windows would push a couple windows 11 updates (I was using the most recent iso to install so there are only 2 actual windows 11 updates) but it also pushes a whole bunch of drivers. One of the Intel drivers that Windows update pushes for the GT77 corrupts the Windows 11 settings app and it's UNFIXABLE. Hi, this is really complex and has taken me days to figure out, so I really hope this helps someone.