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The ancient PC we use at work has a flickering screen and I have figured out that the issue is that the driver is faulty for some reason. When I boot into safe mode with networking the flickering screen issue goes away because Windows is using the Generic Display Driver. I would like to make this the permanent driver for the PC.

I have found a lot of solutions online but they are only for Windows 8/10 or only work in the Pro version. I am using Windows 7 Home. There was a solution on this forum that suggested changing values in the group policy editor but those values don't exist in the Home edition. I have changed the setting in the control panel to stop updating drivers automatically but when I uninstall the display driver it still gets installed automatically.

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  • can you disable the display adapter in device manager.
    – David Kent
    Commented Sep 30, 2019 at 9:35
  • @hazmah dar thanks. this worked! i had been uninstalling the driver but it kept getting reinstalled. I didn't think to disable the display adapter. after disabling the display device windows started using the generic display driver and didn't try to reinstall the disabled driver.
    – Philip Partyka
    Commented Oct 14, 2019 at 19:48

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Use Device Manager, right-click the display device and select Uninstall. If given such an option, tick the "Delete the driver software for this device" check-box and click OK.

The device and its driver will be removed from Windows, resulting in a blank screen.

Without display, you will need to use the power button to shut down the computer. On reboot, Windows will install its own driver.

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  • When I uninstall the driver from safe mode and then restart the pc it reinstalls the ati radeon driver automatically.
    – Philip Partyka
    Commented Oct 1, 2019 at 22:11
  • You should delete that driver from Windows. If you don't get this option, see this answer of mine for blocking driver update for a device (written for Windows 10 but will probably still work for Windows 7).
    – harrymc
    Commented Oct 2, 2019 at 5:15
  • I can delete the driver for the device. When I do that, the device disappears from the list in device manager. After rebooting the same driver is reinstalled. I have tried the solution in your link already before this post but the values listed dont exist. Might be a Windows 7 issue or a Home edition (Non Pro) issue
    – Philip Partyka
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 15:01
  • Home doesn't have the Group Policy Editor. It can be downloaded from here (small download icon). See instructions in article1 and article2.
    – harrymc
    Commented Oct 3, 2019 at 15:41
  • I have already tried the policy method before I posted here. The problem with the policy solution is that when I navigate to [Local Computer Policy>Computer Configuration>Administrative Templates>System] there is no Device Installation folder. I suspect this is because this folder is only in Windows 10 like in the article you posted or this folder isn't available in the Home edition.
    – Philip Partyka
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 8:48

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