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Re:Microsoft Kills Windows 10's Automatic Driver Search by izacus on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:58AM (#24131589)
As its written in the article this doesn't remove what you're talking about - the mechanism for driver updates is now Windows Update. And it works rather well - my Razer laptop pulled all of its drivers immediately from Windows Update with no manual faffing needed.

This is only about the Device manager integrated function which is really now a duplicate of Windows Update version.

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Re:Microsoft Kills Windows 10's Automatic Driver Search by jeroenhd on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:30AM (#24133045)
The problem with that is that the Device Manager feature is simple and understandable. When I install or reconfigure a driver and want to pull a driver from Windows Update, I can specifically start the update client for that device and see when it's done.

With Windows Update I just have to believe that it'll look for drivers at some point. There's no direct feedback anymore.

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