Uninstall windows update command line windows 7

Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to imansejati's post on September 9, Some of the info did not show up in your post, but I was able to figure it out.

How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Therefore, they are displayed multiple times in Uninstall or change a program. In these cases, to remove the update completely, you have to run the uninstallation command targeting the GUID for each Office product that has the update installed.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? 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 KB number will be listed in parenthesis at the end of the name. These commands can be run directly from the CMD prompt, or can be saved as a.

I recommend creating a. This will vary based on your patch management. Thanks for the info! Just came across this after the latest updates starting causes crashes for some of our Outlook users.

Here is a simple bat script to check for and uninstall an update that is causing problems, just replace the KB number with the number of the one you need to uninstall:. Now that Microsoft released a fixed version of KB uninstalling shouldn't be necessary but I updated my original script to show how to completely remove the packages left behind so an update wouldn't automatically get reinstalled after the next boot.

The script assumes the current user is administrator but could be edited for any user. This may come in handy for the next update that MS botches Updates can be removed in several ways.

Probably the easiest option for users is to use the uninstall a program applet of the Control Panel. Updates can also be removed from the command line using the wusa tool. To do so, you need to know the KB KnowledgeBase number of the patch you want to remove.

If you get a blue or black screen of death while booting into Windows or another error message, you may want to hit F8 during the boot process to display the advanced boot menu. Note : This is somewhat tricky on Windows 8 due to the accelerated boot process. It may be easier to use a Windows 8 disc instead if you have one and select restore from there when it comes up. If you can display the advanced boot options you may want to select "Start Windows using Last Known Good Configuration" first.

This is only available on Windows 7 and older systems and not on Windows 8. It pays to be prepared for these kind of situations. If your system shipped without disc, you may want to create a system repair disc to make sure you have a disc that you can boot into if the operating system fails to boot. You can boot from the system repair disc or recovery drive whenever you cannot boot into Windows directly anymore.

I first thought it was affecting systems as well. Have corrected it, and list the four updates now that Microsoft is investigating. Microsoft could have made it easier — for non techie types — by putting out a new patch to overwrite the problematic one.

And no excuse at all for leaving consumers to clear up the mess manually. If an update proves problematic, then another update or patch should be issued to deal with it. Just no excuse whatever for any other approach. As it is, like others here, I now do my updates manually, and always do a backup image first. If there are only 2 or 3 updates, I apply them.

But if there are a dozen or more, as this week, I apply them one or two at a time so any problematic updates can immediately be identified. Hi Martin I have removed both updates as shown, but now windows update prompts me to install KB, should i ignore?

Install only when there has been no hue and cry, no trashed computers, no broken Windows. Removed both, rebooted, called Windows Update to check, no update available. Been using 8. KB is there and the rest 3 are not. That command grabs all fonts but only shows the.