How the Win7 system prohibits automatic installation of drivers

Have you ever had this experience in the Win7 system, when connected to a computer with a mobile phone or a USB drive, the system automatically searches for and installs the driver, which looks convenient, but if the system finds an incompatibility it is inconvenient and requires a variety of operations to remove the incompatible driver. In order to be more convenient to use, we can choose to prohibit automatic installation of drivers.

1. Start Menu---Run---input gpedit.msc enter to open the local Group Policy editor;

2. Navigate to the Computer Configuration---Management panel---system---device installation---device installation restrictions.

3. In the Right Detail window, double-click to open a device that prevents the installation of devices that are not described by other policy settings.

4. Select Enabled, and then save the settings exit to complete the prohibit automatic installation of the driver operation.

When connecting to a computer using an external device, Win7 system will automatically search and install the driver, this is a very user-friendly settings, but once the driver is not compatible with the computer, the use of a variety of operations to delete, if you also feel trouble, you can choose to win7 system settings prohibit the automatic installation of the driver.