When I was setting up my Huawei computer one could enable the setting that the Huawei PC Manager automatically installs driver updates if you are inactive. Since it was explicitly that you change it afterwards I didn't think anymore about it.
However this setting just restarts my PC from time to time without asking me. I don't want to uninstall the program because than I get performance warnings like "May shorten battery life", "less cpu power" etc.
I want to change it now with the Huawei PC Manager but now (that was their strategy) you have to agree to the Huawei policy terms and you have to do it online (so they can directly send it to Huawei). Is there another way to change it or preventing the PC Manager from sending my data to Huawei?
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I installed Windows 11 and did not get all the drivers from Windows Update. Mine is a 14s with MX350 GPU, and that wasn't detected, but it also got a generic display driver with a poor color profile, the fingerprint sensor wasn't working, and device manager showed ~10 or so "unknown" devices.
Huawei PC manager fixed that. But I too chose to keep my system up to date, thinking it would maybe integrate with Windows Update (if that's possible?) or at most run a lightweight background service that would occasionally check if any driver updates are available. Alas, it runs a whole bunch of services and also "Huawei Control Panel", which is just useless bloat in my case as I don't have any other Huawei devices.
I decided I'd rather not run it automatically at startup, but to keep it installed so I can run it manually to check drivers every few months, or if I have any issues. Luckily that's easy to set up, once you find it... they did hide it a bit.
The settings are found behind the icon left to the left of the minimize button.
Once in there, the first setting in the "general" category is a toggle to run at startup or not.