In the options, click the checkbox near 'Show offers from our partners', make sure the option 'Prevent downloads of drivers from Windows Update when Windows search for a driver for a device' is marked too, and press Close. Next, click the 'Options' located top-left. If you want to use it - make sure you're able to enter and leave it normally, otherwise it's possible to get stuck in Safe Mode, so for the process in this guide, we will not be using it, so simply press OK.

Next warning is if you are not in Safe Boot Mode. Here, DDU will warn you if it closed any applications, if that happens - simply press OK. Open it, then launch 'Display Driver Uninstaller.exe'. In the same folder as the 'DDU v.' file you will find a folder named the same. Then run 'DDU v.' executable, it will ask where you want to extract it - stick to the default entry, press 'Extract'. It will also close some applications, like MSI Afterburner and others, which are able to interfere with the de-installation and installation processes.Įxtract the downloaded archive with DDU. You should stop mining activities, have all your work saved and be ready to reboot the system when using this. How insane is this, when dozens of MSFS are busily changing and trying to find the best driver for optimal (VR) performance (that it appears, still is 457.30 for VR).It is often recommended to disable networking or turn off windows updates to prevent Windows from installing the driver itself. In two days I found DOZENS of mentionings of ‘after DDU I could not boot into my windows drive’, with the usual boot repair ‘advise’, none of which worked in my case. In the final backup software I noticed I could as well chose only to restore the ‘system reserved partition’ of the Windows drive, which hold nothing but a boot pointer (I figured that out in 2 days) and to not restore the old Windows partition by a hunch ‘let’s try this and see what happens’.

I finally decided to ‘ah well’ to restore the partition with a - too old - backup from before my latest Windows Upgrade (a lot of tinkering after the 20H2 upgrade).

I tinkered two (2) days with CMD prompt and partition software tools, through an Win10 install boot USB and from a separate backup vanilla Windows boot partition to repair the Windows partition boot.

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