I have an Intel network card that doesn't like the MS drivers. This is a common problem with this particular card apparently. The solution is to download the Intel drivers and install them. That works a treat but Windows switches back to the MS driver after a full shutdown/reboot and then the card won't work. It doesn't do it for a restart/sleep/hibernate. After a cold reboot I can uninstall the network card in device manager and the detect new hardware and it will switch to the Intel driver and start working. Is there a way to lock this device to a particular driver? Or a way to uninstall the built in MS driver? All I can find on google is how to stop windows update installing new drivers, but this isn't windows update. As the offending driver is part of windows I presume I can't delete it and if I did I presume it would come back.
The card is Intel 82579LM Windows version is Windows 10 22H2
Edit: To the person who marked this a duplicate and closed my question, you are completely wrong. That other question is talking about something different and is NOT an answer to my question in any way at all. I have followed everything in that thread and many many other similar threads and it hasn't helped. That question is talking about windows update installing new drivers, my question relates to the basic process of windows automatically installing existing drivers during a cold boot. I did specify this is the my original question. Please open my question again.
Edit2: The very first line of the other question makes it very clear it's NOT a duplicate. "Every time Windows 10 runs updates". My problem is NOT happening when windows update is run, it is happening during a cold boot. This is very clearly specified in my original question. Please reopen my question.
Edit3: Hello? Is anyone actually reviewing this question? The suggested duplicate is simply wrong, this is quite simply NOT a duplicate of that other question and that other question does not answer my question in any way at all. Is someone looking at this? It's been 11 days. 11 days to ask a simple question.
