Every time a major Windows update is installed the specific touchpad driver I have installed is replaced. The new driver will disable the 2 and 3-finger click actions as well as 2-finger scrolling. It's happened several times now and basically makes my PC unusable until I spend 15 minutes reinstalling the old driver and re-configuring the multi touch settings.

I've tried disabling automatic driver downloads which seemed to prevent this from happening during normal updates but still always occurs with a major update. Is there any way to stop this? It is extremely infuriating.

Never auto-update drivers ! Never, never !