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??
Exact same thing happened to just one of my rigs (AMD). My other AMD rig and both Nvidia rigs sailed through fine, except for the fact it took 45+ minutes and several reboots and all that seemed to change is the addition of a shortcut for the shitty Edge browser on the desktop.
So, how does one go about blocking M$ domains? Is this done in the hosts file?