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Question

Services re-enabling by themselves

Sep 22, 2017 12:28PM PDT

Hello! I'm hoping someone has an idea of what I should do.
A little background:
I own an Acer Aspire V5 laptop that has been designed for gaming. It has dual graphics, one onboard and one dedicated. The dedicated one is slightly older than the onboard chipset. I bought the laptop used and the owner had upgraded from Windows 8 to 10 during the push to do so.
All was good until the anniversary updates a year ago. It tried to update my GPU..,only to discover the older card is no longer supported by the newest patches. Windows 10 can't tell the difference and installs anyway, causing one graphics processor to disable. Naturally, this defeats the purpose of my machine.
I restored my laptop, still Windows 10, and set my wifi to Metered and also disabled the BITS and Windows Update in the services.msc.
this worked for nearly a year...until this week when the BITS and Update randomly re-enabled themselves, my wifi was taken off of metered, and again forced updates.
Luckily, installing the laptop's factory drivers corrected the GPU issue, but the services continue to re-enable at random. Sometimes twice a day...sometimes witha full day gone by and no issue. There doesn't seem to be a pattern.
Any ideas what may be causing the system to re-enable disabled functions?
I don't WANT to have to revert to Windows 8 via ISO, but I will if this problem will never go away...

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As to the driver issue;
Sep 22, 2017 9:46PM PDT

I think it's time to call the maker and ask if they have drivers available or in the works.

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Tried that
Sep 23, 2017 8:51PM PDT

I called them when the issue happened the first time. They no longer support the older GPU.

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My oldest graphics
Sep 23, 2017 9:06PM PDT

Is the Intel Graphics on a 2006 Dell Inspiron e1505. Your laptop seems newer.

I can't hold hands but have found DDU (read http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html ) useful to remove old drivers and install newer. Since the maker is not publishing drivers you may have to ask in AMD/ATI forums.

I can not check this out for you as the model appears to be a series and not a specific model number.

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For me to dig into the drivers.
Sep 23, 2017 9:14PM PDT
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services, etc.
Sep 24, 2017 4:31AM PDT

did you go into the services and start up menu and disable them?

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Disabled
Sep 24, 2017 9:39AM PDT

I disabled both the BITS and Update in services.msc, but there is no Start Menu option to disable Updates in Windows 10 Home Edition.

As to why I want to turn off the Updates, it has nothing to do with hating Microsoft or being a control freak about what goes onto my system: it's more the simple fact the Updates cause my computer to malfunction severely, hampering its purpose as a gaming machine. I want to disable Updates to preserve the integrity of my system stability and functionality.
I don't browse the Internet on my laptop, I use my phone for that. The only thing I do on my laptop is gaming, so I'm not overly concerned about security.

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W10 does have some controls now about driver updates.
Sep 24, 2017 9:57AM PDT

But here I have been lucky in machines at office, home and clients that research finds the drivers or we can turn off the Windows Driver suggestions. I don't know if you researched how or where W10 controls do this but the BITS and such service seems to be what we did at first. Today it's different.

Maybe a firewall is best here? Or updating your method for controlling Microsoft updates? It's a subject all on its own so I'm going to defer that till another discussion since the new ways are now on the web in many places.

-> I'm back now and waiting for a Web Speccy so any research I do will be applicable to your machine. Why I choose the Web Speccy is it's a little work to find the right solutions and would be a waste of my time if I didn't get a solid readout of the model number and what's inside that model. Yes you write Acer Aspire V5 552p-809x but opted out of the Web Speccy so I will delay any research into that model. I will share that I may google the specific Acer to see if there are priors along with checking driver pages. But with half what I use to address issues like that I will pause here.

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Laptop specs
Sep 24, 2017 9:30AM PDT

I'm not currently at home but I can at least tell you this:
My laptop is an Acer Aspire V5 552p-809x with dual graphics, AMD Radeon 8650 and 8760.
The 8650 is no longer supported by AMD and is causing the issues when updates occur.