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by ChuckNorris89 1113 days ago
>HP Spectre x360 laptop (2020), factory-installed Win10 [...] but the Realtek control panel was still unstable

Well there's your problem, or more precise HP's problem, not Windows's problem. Don't use vendor crapware on your machine.

Always install a fresh copy of windows of a USB drive, not the recovery partition which holds the vendor crapware.

The built in windows audio switcher and audio drivers works just fine no need to use third party apps.
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thewataccount 1113 days ago
> Don't use vendor crapware on your machine

Wouldn't it be installed windows update anyway? I'm pretty sure windows installs whatever software is in it's repo the moment a device is discovered by default?

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ChuckNorris89 1113 days ago
No, Windows update will update it if it's already there from the factory, not if you have a fresh install from the official Microsoft ISO.

On a fresh install Windows update only install the corect drivers, no vendor apps.

The Realtek app is put there by the vendor (HP/Dell/Lenovo) from the factory in their spin of Windows. If you install a fresh vanilla copy of Windows from Microsft's website you won't have any of that nonsense.

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Const-me 1112 days ago
Sadly, this is no longer true. At least, not for modern laptops.

It's possible to achieve what you wrote, but the complexity of doing that is borderline impossible. Need to set up group policies, or use custom software, to block installation of specific hardware devices, and specific Windows updates.

Example: https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Software-and-How-To-Q...

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ChuckNorris89 1112 days ago
I have a 2021 Lenovo that had a bunch of crapware on it. Flashed a clean version of Windows and the crapware never came back after any update. The link you posted mentions nothing of a clean install, most likely it was a factory install.
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Const-me 1112 days ago
I have a similar model of HP Probook. I'm 100% certain I did clean install, HP does not even sell this model with 2TB SSD.
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thewataccount 1113 days ago
I'm pretty sure it runs whatever executable is in their repo?

Nvidia will include it's control panels and stuff, same with intel graphics AFAIK?

A little old but https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/razer-bug-let...

I'm like 95% sure intel graphics does this with integrated graphics

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