Windows Update

Microsoft recommends that users go on their Windows x installations up-to-engagement, and while this is a expert exercise for security, there are times when Windows updates can crusade more than harm than expert. Botched updates can ruin everything, from Start menu to desktop to the Action Eye and the complete operating system.

In this guide, we volition explicate the steps required to uninstall Windows updates that have known issues or that are causing problems on your computer. With this guide you will learn how to remove updates via Settings, Command Console and a Command Line tool.

Uninstall Windows Updates with Settings and Control Panel

  1. Open Beginning menu and click on the cog icon to open Settings.
  2. In Settings, head into Update & security.
  3. Click on the 'View Update History' or 'View installed update history'.

    Update History

  4. On the Windows Update history folio, click on 'Uninstall updates'.

    Uninstall update button

  5. On the next screen, you will exist presented with a list of contempo Windows Updates. You can sort the list by installation date or you lot can as well search through all of the installed/agile updates using the search box at the peak right.

    Control Panel Update Uninstalls

If you have noted the Knowledge Base (KB) number of the update, simply enter it in the search box to find it chop-chop. After determining the update that you desire to uninstall, follow these steps:

  1. Select the update.
  2. Simply click the 'Uninstall' button.
  3. Click 'Aye' on the confirmation box to uninstall the update.
  4. A reboot may be required to finish the process.

Uninstall Windows Update with Command Prompt

If you are unable to remove an update from the Settings app or Control Console, you can also apply the Windows Update Standalone Installer, or wusa.exe, command line program to uninstall Windows updates.

In order to use this tool, you will need to know the KB number of the Windows update. If yous don't know the KB number, you tin follow this guide to get a list of installed Windows Updates and their KB number.

To uninstall an update, open an Elevated Command Prompt (admin) and then type the following command after replacing the KB ID with the ane that you wish to uninstall:wusa /uninstall /kb:[id]

Example: wusa /uninstall /KB:4023057

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If you want to uninstall the update without your interaction and automatically restart the calculator, you lot would utilise the post-obit control:wusa /uninstall /kb:[id] /quiet

Example: wusa /uninstall /KB:4023057 /serenity

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If y'all desire to uninstall the update and prompt to restart the estimator, use the post-obit command:wusa /uninstall /kb:[id] /quiet /promptrestart

Example: wusa /uninstall /KB:4023057 /quiet /promptrestart

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If you want to uninstall the update without a forced organization reboot, apply the following control:wusa /uninstall /kb:[id] /quiet /norestart

Case: wusa /uninstall /KB:4023057 /quiet /norestart

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If you desire to uninstall the update and strength system reboot, use the post-obit command:wusa /uninstall /kb:[id] /quiet /forcerestart

Example: wusa /uninstall /KB:4023057 /quiet /forcerestart

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The use of wusa.exe is particularly useful for system administrators who wish to remove an update for a large corporeality of computers in a domain through login scripts or other automated methods.

Uninstall Windows Update at Boot with Avant-garde Options

Finally, if you are unable to start Windows or are dealing with a particularly stubborn update, you tin can boot into Windows 10 Advanced Startup to remove the update. To use this fashion, please follow these steps:

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Navigate to Update & Security > Recovery.
  3. Click onAdvanced Startup.
  4. On Advanced Startup screen, click on Troubleshoot.

    Troubleshoot

  5. Click on Advanced Options.

    Advanced Options

  6. Click on Uninstall Updates.

    Uninstall updates

  7. On the Uninstall Updates screen, you volition run into two options - Uninstall latest quality update or Uninstall latest feature update.

    uninstall updates

    In this example, quality updates stand for the monthly cumulative update. The features updates are new versions of Windows 10 such as Windows ten May 2019 Update and October 2018 Update, which are released twice a year.

  8. Subsequently selecting an update to uninstall, enter your login to your Windows 10 business relationship with your username and password.

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  9. Finally, click on Uninstall quality update orUninstall feature update to remove the updates.

  10. Restart the computer when prompted.

After the restart, the Windows update will have been removed.