How do I force windows to allow me to update a driver when it thinks it's own version from 2006 is better even though it crashes my PC?

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Ever since a recent update to windows my computer started to act slow and games that I used to have very good performance in were suddenly hitching and crashing.I have narrowed the cause down to the incorrect drivers being installed for some of my motherboards components such as the AMD PCI Express components, where as before they had the correct AMD provided drivers from 2021 they have been replaced with Microsoft drivers from 2006. I previously talked to MS technical support about this several times, in the process learning that you can no longer fully opt out of Windows update for some insa

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