How to Hide or Show Windows Updates in Windows 10

In Windows 10, your PC or device is always kept upwards to date with the latest features and fixes. Updates are installed automatically, with no need to select which updates are needed or non needed. In rare cases, a specific commuter or update might temporarily crusade bug with your device, and in this case yous will need a mode to prevent the problematic driver or update from reinstalling automatically the next time Windows Updates are installed.

In rare cases, a driver or update might cause issues with your PC. To forestall the driver or update from existence reinstalled automatically, a Show or hibernate updates troubleshooter from Microsoft is available that provides a user interface for hiding and showing Windows Updates and drivers for Windows ten.

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This tutorial will testify y'all how to hide or show Windows updates in Windows ten.

Yous must be signed in as an administrator to be able to hide or show Windows updates.

Contents


  • Selection 1: To Hide Windows Updates in Windows 10
  • Pick Two: To Show Hidden Windows Updates in Windows 10

OPTION 1

To Hide Windows Updates in Windows 10

1 If the update is existence automatically installed, you can temporarily disable automatic updating to prevent the update from being automatically installed.

ii If this is an unwanted installed Windows Update, then uninstall the update.

3 If this is an unwanted driver that was installed via Windows Update only cannot be uninstalled using stride ii above, so uninstall the driver in Device Manager.

4 Download the wushowhide.diagcab file from the KB3073930 webpage at Microsoft for the Evidence or hide updates troubleshooter parcel.

5 Save the wushowhide.zip file to your desktop, and extract the wushowhide.diagcab file.

6 Double click/tap on the extracted wushowhide.diagcab file to open up information technology, and click/tap on Advanced. (meet screenshot below)

If y'all like, you can save this .cab file to where you like, and create a shortcut to add together to All apps or where you like for easy usage.

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7 Check the Apply repairs automatically box, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot beneath)

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8 When it'due south finished detecting problems, click/tap on the Hide updates option. (meet screenshot below)

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9 Check the box of any available updates that you want to hide, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)

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10 The selected updates are now subconscious. Click/tap on Close when finished. (encounter screenshot below)

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eleven If you like, y'all tin can enable automatic updating once more.

OPTION 2

To Show Hidden Windows Updates in Windows 10

This option is to prove a Windows update that you have hidden using Option Ane higher up.

1 Download the wushowhide.diagcab file from the KB3073930 webpage at Microsoft for the Show or hide updates troubleshooter package.

ii Save the wushowhide.zip file to your desktop, and extract the wushowhide.diagcab file.

three Double click/tap on the extracted wushowhide.diagcab file to open it, and click/tap on Advanced. (see screenshot below)

If yous like, you tin save this .cab file to where y'all like, and create a shortcut to add to All apps or where y'all like for easy usage.

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4 Check the Apply repairs automatically box, and click/tap on Next. (see screenshot below)

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5 When information technology's finished detecting problems, click/tap on the Show hidden updates option. (see screenshot beneath)

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six Check the box of any hidden updates (if available) that you lot want to show in Windows Update again, and click/tap on Adjacent. (see screenshots below)

7 The selected hidden updates are now no longer subconscious. Click/tap on Close when finished. (see screenshots beneath)

8 You lot tin can now Check for updates in Windows Update to download and install them.

That's it,
Shawn

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