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January 14th, 2025 20:25
Handling Windows and Dell updates for engineers (Solidworks users)
I work for an engineering firm. All of the engineers use Solidworks on their Dell computers. We get software updates from Dell, Windows and our own IT department (security type patches). Many times, updates for the graphics driver. Solidworks specifies we stay at a specific driver for the installed version of Solidworks. But this presents a problem. Once that specified driver is updated from Dell or NVIDIA, we get daily (and multiple times) update reminder popups.
Question:
Is there any way to control (suppress) the updates we receive on a daily basis? I understand the Dell graphics driver update can come from both Windows or Dell.
I've made a whole page on our internal Wiki to try to educate users on which updates are good to install and how to identify a graphics driver and not install those. But engineers don't think like IT, admins like me, etc. I've seen where an engineer will get a correct driver (many times a downgrade) installed, then to only update that driver again a week later. Many simply click "Update" without thinking. I’ve seen it where deviating from the recommended Solidworks driver is no issue. But I’ve also seen it where it completely trashes Solidworks. It’s just a gamble. This is a tiresome circle that never ends. And having an incorrect GPU driver is one of the biggest contributors to inefficiency and poor Solidworks performance.
Do you also face this never-ending dilemma? Is there anything our company can do to mitigate this issue?
It would be great if there was a way to select a specific update and disable that update for that driver version. But this functionality would need to be available for both Windows and Dell updates.


