What I despise is freaking Windows Update deciding to downgrade my video drivers without asking me. I was going through the spring update all good and well and then wondered why the miner wasn't working.
Damn thing flattened my display drivers and installed an old version on top of it. Brilliant... Not.
IIRC 1709 did not touch the display drivers. Why did this update do so??
I'm using a combo of blocking Microsoft domains from my network as well as this:
We have been using this little tool to completely disable Windows Updates for the past ~year or so now. They just came out with a v1.1 yesterday, I believe we have been using v1.0. ---
https://www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-1/ --- I was skeptical of it at first, but it's been working flawlessly on 16 rigs (although not all of them have been running a full year yet.