How to uninstall the latest Windows 10 update – 3 ways

How to uninstall the latest Windows 10 update; Some of the users are faced with situations when, after the last Windows update, the computer starts to malfunction, or the operating system stops running on the PC at all. Even if your computer hasn’t experienced these issues, you’ve likely heard of problems with Windows 10 after installing some updates.)

Cumulative updates for the Windows operating system are released at a typical frequency of about once a month. They include security patches, fixes or improvements to the system.

Why do some PCs have problems after installing Windows 10 updates? In most cases, this is the result of conflicts between software and hardware.

There are a huge number of computer configurations in the world, and it is not possible even theoretically to check everything in practice before the release of an update. Therefore, the occurrence of problems is inevitable due to the incompatibility of drivers, components and other components of the operating system.

To solve the problem with the operation of the operating system, you can use the following methods:

• system restore using a restore point;
• uninstalling the latest windows update.

If these methods do not solve the problem, the user can use other additional options:

• restoring Windows from a system backup;
• resetting the system to its original state;
• clean installation of Windows using the “Fresh Start” function;
• reinstalling the operating system.

Before using additional methods, it makes sense to apply simpler solutions to the problem. In this guide, you will find instructions on how to uninstall the latest Windows update using different methods.

Windows updates have a description and type identifier: “KB:number_set” (it looks something like this: KB4507453), by which it can be found on a computer, or read information about it on the Internet.

How to uninstall Windows 10 update – 1 way

First, we will look at several ways to remove the latest updates from a running system. On a PC, there are the following conditions: Windows is having problems, but the operating system starts and you can perform the necessary operations on it.

This method of uninstalling updates works the same in Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7 operating systems.

Do the following:

1. Enter the “Start” menu, click on “Settings”.
2. In the Windows Settings window, open Update & Security.
3. In the Windows Update section, click on the View update history option.
4. In the “View update history” window, click on the “Uninstall updates” link.
5. In the Installed Updates window, highlight the update that you want to remove from your PC, then right-click on it, and select Uninstall from the context menu.

Uninstalling a Windows Update at the Command Prompt – Method 2

You can remove the latest operating system update or old Windows 10 updates using the system tool: the Windows command line.

The user will need to follow these steps:

1. Run the command prompt as an administrator in one of the convenient ways.
2. In the command line interpreter window, type the command, and then press the “Enter” key to execute the command.

wmic qfe list brief /format:table

3. A list of installed updates will appear in the command line window with symbols like: “KB:update_number”. Run the command to uninstall a specific update:

wusa /uninstall /kb:update_number

4. At the Windows Update Offline Installer prompt, agree to remove the software update (the prompt may not appear).
5. Restart your computer.

Remove the latest Windows 10 update from the Windows RE recovery environment

The Windows operating system has the Windows RE recovery environment , with which you can perform system recovery work. You enter the recovery environment from a running system, from the Recovery Disk, or from a Windows installation image burned to a bootable flash drive or DVD.

Now we will consider the case when the Windows 10 operating system does not start after installing the latest update. Because of this, the user cannot use the methods described earlier in this article.

We will need bootable media: a pre-created Windows Recovery Disk, a bootable USB flash drive, or a Windows 10 installation disk.

You need to follow these steps (I show the example of using a bootable Windows 10 flash drive):

1. Boot to your PC from a pre-created bootable media.
2. In the Windows Setup window, click on the “Next” button.
3. In the window that opens, click on the “System Restore” item, which is located in the lower left corner of the window.
4. In the Select Action window, select Troubleshooting.
5. In the “Advanced Options” window, the system recovery options will become available.
6. Click on the Uninstall updates option.

The Uninstall Updates window offers two actions to choose from:

• Remove latest hotfix – Removes the latest cumulative update.
• Uninstall latest feature update – Revert to a previous version of Windows if 10 days have not yet passed after updating the system to a new version.

The first option proposed by the system suits us.

7. Click on the “Uninstall latest patch” option.
8. In the Remove Latest Patch window, select the target operating system.
9. In the next window, click on the “Uninstall patch” button.
10. The PC will begin the process of uninstalling the latest update.
11. After the cumulative update uninstall process is complete, click on the “Finish” button.
12. In the “Select Action” window, click on the “Continue” button to exit the Windows Recovery Environment.

After restarting the computer, the Windows 10 operating system will start.

Article Conclusions

If, after installing cumulative updates, problems and malfunctions begin in the Windows 10 operating system, you must remove the last installed update from the computer. There are several ways to solve this problem. Some of the methods can be applied from a running system. If Window cannot be loaded, you can uninstall the latest update from the Windows RE recovery environment.