How to Uninstall Windows Updates?
Contents If You Want to Uninstall One of the Smaller Less Impactfull Updates Then Thankfully That Is Quite a Bit Easier to Do: Open up Your Windows Settings...
If you want to uninstall one of the smaller less impactfull updates then thankfully that is quite a bit easier to do:
- Open up your Windows Settings and head back into “Update & security”
- Click on the “Windows Update” tab, and then on “Update history”.
- On the next screen, click on “Uninstall updates”
Steps
- Boot into Safe Mode. You’ll have the best success removing Windows updates if you are running Safe Mode:
- Open the “Programs and Features” window.
- Click the “View installed updates” link.
- Find the update you want to remove.
- Select the update and click “Uninstall.”
From the command line
- Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe, right-click on the result and select run as administrator. This launches an elevated command prompt.
- To remove an update, use the command wusa /uninstall /kb:2982791 /quiet and replace the KB number with the number of the update that you want to remove.
- Step 1: Locate KB number of the patch you wish to uninstall. Open Programs and Features from the Control Panel of a system that has the desired update installed and click “View Installed Updates” and locate the update.
- Step 2: Open CMD Prompt or Notepad.
- Step 3: Block the undesired update from installing on the PC.
For computers with a Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system:
- Go to Start > Control Panel and click on “Uninstall a program” in the “Programs” group.
- In the menu to the left of the newly opened window, click on “View installed updates”.
Step 1: Locate KB number of the patch you wish to uninstall. Open Programs and Features from the Control Panel of a system that has the desired update installed and click “View Installed Updates” and locate the update.The problem is … If an update causes issues, it’s possible to open control panel, go to Programs and Features and select Installed updates. All installed updates are listed. Selecting an update shows an Uninstall button (see screenshot above).
How do I uninstall the last Windows 10 update?
To uninstall the latest feature update to go back to a earlier version of Windows 10, use these steps:
- Start your device in Advanced startup.
- Click on Troubleshoot.
- Click on Advanced options.
- Click on Uninstall Updates.
- Click the Uninstall latest feature update option.
- Sign in using your administrator credentials.
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HOW TO UNDO A WINDOWS UPDATE
- Press Win+I to open the Settings app.
- Choose Update and Security.
- Click the Update History link.
- Click the Uninstall Updates link.
- Choose the update you want to undo.
- Click the Uninstall button that appears on the toolbar.
- Follow the directions provided on the screen.