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[Arx]

Thanks, makes sense. Clearing everything and trying again didn't bear any useful fruit -- what do you mean with disabling driver enforcement? Searching it brings up driver signature enforcement which doesn't seem helpful here, unless I'm drastically missing how this works.

[wierd]

That is it.  It disables MS nannyism, and will allow you to force-install/manual-pick a driver. (The change driver process behaves a little differently when it is enabled, and windows complains about it.)

Boot with enforcement off.

Open device manager.

Right click on the GPU under display devices.

Choose 'Update Driver'

Choose 'Let me specify a location'

Uncheck 'display only compatible devices'

Point it at the folder created by the driver installation program.

Manually pick the driver.

Windows will bitch. Ignore its snivelling.

Let it install.

Hopefully, profit.:

[Arx]

Hmm. I appear to be able to install the driver like that, but it doesn't seem to change anything -- I still get the ol' code 43. Not sure if it's actually any different to before, actually, as the driver seems previously to have been installed, Windows just (presumably) rejected it and it's still doing that. Any other last ditch possibilities? I'm arguably overdue a proper system cleanup so a full Windows reinstall isn't actually off the table, if that might help.

[Arx]

Update: I did reset/partial windows reinstall and it seems to have resolved the issue. GPU is now talking to me again without complaint.

[LordBaal]

Usually that "fix" most issues with windows. Beware, if it was an update that screw you over is bound to happen again.

[King Zultan]

Does anyone have any idea why firefox keeps switching my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to Yahoo Search, it even does this if I switch back to google. It doesn't just do it on start up but also randomly while I'm using it.

It's been doing this since google decided I needed to use the mobile version and I swapped it for DuckDuckGo.

[LordBaal]

That sounds like some sort of malware.

[wierd]

Yeah, sounds like a malicious extension.

[King Zultan]

Any ideas as to how I should go about getting rid of it?

[feelotraveller]

This article should walk you through the possibilities: https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/browser-switching-yahoo-search/

First step should be to back up (sync) your personal browser data so that bookmarks etc. are not lost/can be recovered.  Hopefully after that a simple browser reset willl fix it.  If not keep reading the above article.  Sorting through your extensions to find out if one of the recent ones caused the issue is where I'd look next.  MalwareBytes is free, safe and an effective tool in my experience.

If interested in further reading it is quite a well known issue - search for 'yahoo search redirect virus'.  Just to note it's not yahoo.search itself but rather the intermediary sites which harvest your data that are the malicious bit, annoying as it is to constantly be losing your preferred search engine.

[King Zultan]

It happened again but this time I got the name, it's called ScrhTab, I also found it in the Add-ons and it's the only thing in there I'm not sure what is. If it matters it says it's made by something called Thent Team.

[feelotraveller]

Remove it.  Reset browser (backup your browser data/settingsd first!).  If problem persists download the free version of malwarebytes and scan with that and remove the infected files.

(Wild guess on the name - it's probably scoring your searches for advertising purposes... or maybe that's just what it wants us to think...)

[King Zultan]

Thanks for the advice it seems whatever that ScrhTab thing was, was what was causing the issue.

[Starver]

Not entirely sure this needs solving, but if anybody knows how to stop Chrome For Android from popping over a "View as simplified page", it'd be nice to know.

Spoiler: As background to this problem (click to show/hide)

...until a recent update, it used to pop up at the bottom of pages it considered 'complicated'[1], which occasionally caused problems when I want to tap on a link that it hides. If I can scroll the page, it goes away as I scroll down and (also) bring the bit I want it into full view anyway.

...Since an update, sometime in the last few months, it pops-over the middle of the top of the page. Scrolling down encourages it to depart, but also scrolls anything it covered off the top of the screen. It's hit'n'miss whether drag-scrolling up will let me see the page-top again or if the 'offer' appears again.

Really annoying when working with a Wiki when it covers the page-top "Edit", "History" links, etc (though there are other ways to get into them, it's awkward).

I assume it was moved there in response to (legitimate) complaints about it obscuring page-bottom things on very short pages that can't scroll. (My solution for that was to reorient to portrait, messing up other page-size issues momentarily but normally bringing things 'up' out of the obscured zone.)

Looked around the browser settings, nothing obvious. Looked around the obvious Q&A/FAQ pages and all I get is instructions of how to get Simplified Pages to save bandwidth, presumably legacy from when it didn't do either popover suggestion method.

[1] By what measure, I don't know. It wouldn't offer it on those terminably script-heavy/popover-blighted news sites but would on a some very plain sites with not much actually going on either rendered or background scripting.

I do most of my stuff (on Android) via Firefox, which has its own quibbles and oddities and 'fixes/updates' to the UI that I actually think were backwards/perpendicular steps, but right now I'm more annoyed with this particular aspect of Chrome. And if someone thinks they know where this thing's configuration is, I might find a neighbouring setting or three that also solve other niggles.

But if nobody knows... Well, I'm used to suffering. Consider this just a moan for mainly theraputic purposes.

[Lord Shonus]

On Windows 10, is there a way to make sure Google Drive can never be installed? I don't use Google Drive for anything, and regularly uninstall it, but it keeps coming back and asking me to log in. I have no idea what keeps installing it.