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The ancient PC we use at work has a flickering screen and I have figured out that the issue is that the driver is faulty for some reason. When I boot into safe mode with networking the flickering screen issue goes away because Windows is using the Generic Display Driver. I would like to make this the permanent driver for the PC.

I have found a lot of solutions online but they are only for Windows 8/10 or only work in the Pro version. I am using Windows 7 Home. There was a solution on this forum that suggested changing values in the group policy editor but those values don't exist in the Home edition. I have changed the setting in the control panel to stop updating drivers automatically but when I uninstall the display driver it still gets installed automatically.

Philip Partyka
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Use Device Manager, right-click the display device and select Uninstall. If given such an option, tick the "Delete the driver software for this device" check-box and click OK.

The device and its driver will be removed from Windows, resulting in a blank screen.

Without display, you will need to use the power button to shut down the computer. On reboot, Windows will install its own driver.

harrymc
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