Windows 11 updating drivers and bios through Windows update

[Ugly]

Having just acquired an Asus Helios gaming laptop this is my first experience of Windows 11, having used 10 up to now.

The laptop revision first appeared Jan 2024 and my bios is on 1.6 which seems to date from May 24. So I'd assume all my asus drivers are also from around that time.

Running Windows update I was shocked to see a long list of available updates to drivers and the bios update I am being offered pre dates what I have !!!

That makes me very nervous about applying any driver updates just in case it's forcing older versions on me. Why is Microsoft offering this when it can't even get the basics right offering me an old bios!?

Is there anyway to stop win 11 offering driver updates? It was an option in Windows 10. Also there's no description with each driver update so I've no idea what it relates to.

 

[Ugly]

Obviously this forum is dead then?

 

[kitfit1]

No, it's not dead. But expecting Windows of any description to offer driver or god forbid Bios updates says to me that that you are certainly brain dead . You joined in 2017......................................have you not read any thread on here since?

 

[CaNsA]

No, it's not dead. But expecting Windows of any description to offer driver or god forbid Bios updates says to me that that you are certainly brain dead . You joined in 2017......................................have you not read any thread on here since?

Currently, lenovo are rolling out bios updates through Windows updates.

 

[malachi]

Obviously this forum is dead then?

You are not going to get any help with that attitude.

 

[darael]

The only way to 'stop' Windows offering driver updates is by beating it to them. Most of the time Snappy Driver Installer Origin is reasonably up-to-date, but I don't use it for my sound, graphics or bluetooth drivers.

What is the exact motherboard do you have? A link to the motherboard manufacturer's website would help even more.