WindowsUpdateLog update-id based drivers unavailable from Microsoft Update Catalog

Question

For all Device Drivers, the WindowsUpdate stores the Driver Title along with its unique update-id in the path C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log. In recent versions of windows (8 and above), this log is being generated by the power shell command Get-WindowsUpdateLog.

A sample WindowsUpdate.log Driver Title and its update-id from my system is below

2023-12-02 17:15:11.5213155 148   8072  Agent             Title = Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Display - 31.0.12027.9001
2023-12-02 17:15:11.5213175 148   8072  Agent             UpdateId = 96941A83-1B8F-430C-96A5-9522B8586A19.1

The Microsoft Update Catalog website offers search based on update-id as through the following link

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/ScopedViewInline.aspx?updateid=2ACA9060-0321-4F44-B15D-EBBD911A6295

So, to download device driver packages, to be used for later use, i used to go to C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log (Generated by Get-WindowsUpdateLog during recent times) and watch for driver titles and their update ids below. Then i used to search for the driver page in microsoft update catalog and download precisely that particular driver.

Say, for example, for the following title in WindowsUpdate.log

2023-12-02 17:15:11.5213155 148   8072  Agent             Title = Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Display - 31.0.12027.9001
2023-12-02 17:15:11.5213175 148   8072  Agent             UpdateId = 96941A83-1B8F-430C-96A5-9522B8586A19.1

the relevant search webpage link for microsoft update catalog used to be

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/ScopedViewInline.aspx?updateid=96941A83-1B8F-430C-96A5-9522B8586A19

But, when i open this link, the website says update requested could not be found.

And if I search Microsoft Update Catalog website with the driver title, none of the results include the update id shown by the WindowsUpdate.log

Example:

for the above listed title Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Display - 31.0.12027.9001, the search

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=Advanced%20Micro%20Devices%2C%20Inc.%20-%20Display%20-%2031.0.12027.9001

gives three results, but none of them include the specific update-id (96941A83-1B8F-430C-96A5-9522B8586A19) shown from WindowsUpdate.log

Driver Title Search Results (sorry, can't post images)

So, How to download precisely these specific update-id based driver packages, that WindowsUpdate downloads, to be used for further clean installations of the same OS?

Answer 1

That driver shows up at https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=AMD%20radeon%20display%20driver, along with other AMD drivers:

Or just enter the driver ID: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=31.0.12027.9001. Simply enter the ID in the Search box.

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