This starts as a bit of a rant for context - the question is at the end. But in case anyone from Lenovo is reading posts on here, I'm going to rant:

So, I can kind of understand a company not wanting to spend development effort on updating drivers. They've already got my money, and driver updates won't get them more of it, so from the perspective of legally mandated corporate greed (i.e. shareholder profits) it makes sense. But forcibly locking the driver version on my system via Windows Update is a step too far.

The Intel graphics drivers for the Yoga 9i are nearly two years old now, as provided by Lenovo. Intel has upgraded the drivers many times in that two years. Intel will let me install newer versions - but Lenovo has their (potentially customized - but I doubt it) prehistoric version of the drivers set up somehow to install through Windows Update, so that any driver upgrade will be automatically rolled back behind my back.

This is unacceptable. I bought a laptop, not a software management service. And if they offered a software management service, I would have told them to stuff it. It's kind of a shame. Generally, the laptop has been pretty good - but a company acting like they deserve control over what I do with my laptop after I bought it is a little off-putting.

Since there's no way to make Lenovo update their drivers, I guess I need to find some way to remove their control over my driver versions. Does anybody know how to stop them from silently rolling my drivers back, besides the tempting big stick of "buy something that isn't a Lenovo laptop"?