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You can choose to update just Windows and not devices in Windows update.
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You can choose to update just Windows and not devices in Windows update.

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Thanks. I'll give that a try.
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I have a Canon LBP151DW networked (wired lan) laser printer. Something keeps uninstalling the drivers and replacing them with a useless Windows Store app for Canon printers that does absolutely nothing (I suspect Windows Update). &nbsp;Once the driver goes missing I have to reinstall it in order to print. Is there any way I can block this process and keep the printer driver working so I don't have to install the printer every time I want to use it?
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I have a Canon LBP151DW networked (wired lan) laser printer. Something keeps uninstalling the drivers and replacing them with a useless Windows Store app for Canon printers that does absolutely nothing (I suspect Windows Update).  Once the driver goes missing I have to reinstall it in order to print. Is there any way I can block this process and keep the printer driver working so I don't have to install the printer every time I want to use it?

Windows 10 is uninstalling printer drivers and replacing it with an app

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system featuring the "universal application architecture" (UAP); apps can be designed to run across multiple devices with nearly identical code, including PCs, tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, Xbox One, Surface Hub and HoloLens. Windows 10 also includes a virtual desktop system, a window and desktop management feature called Task View, the Microsoft Edge web browser, support for fingerprint and face recognition login, voice-based search (Cortana), new security features for enterprise environments, and DirectX 12 and WDDM 2.0 to improve the operating system's graphics capabilities for games.

Windows 10

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.