▷ How to uninstall problematic windows 10 updates

If your computer has recently been updated and you have noticed a malfunction, today we teach you how to uninstall Windows 10 updates that are causing problems. Keeping our computer updated is necessary and especially in Windows 10 is essential. In fact, the operating system updates automatically while we are working.

But many times it happens that for whatever reason, some update feels bad to our system and begins to work incorrectly, for example, restarts, poor performance and the occasional blue screen error message.

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For these and more reasons, it is a good idea to learn how to uninstall the updates that have been installed on our computer. Windows not only allows you to install them, but also uninstalls them.

Windows 10 has several types of updates, the smallest, which are almost always intended to defend Windows, we cannot uninstall them. Next on the list are occasional patches called quality updates, which are usually installed every two weeks and most of them can be uninstalled.

Finally we have the big updates of which there are only two each year and change the basic operation of the system, these are called feature updates, adding functionalities or important aspects. These updates are almost always done manually or by searching Windows Update and their malfunction involves installing the entire operating system.

We will dedicate ourselves to uninstalling the second and third ones from the list, which we can easily access and are almost always the ones that cause these small or large system failures.

Uninstall Windows 10 updates from settings

The process within Windows to uninstall quality updates is quite simple:

• What we must do is open the start menu and write " Updates " inside it. Now we must choose the option " View the update history "

• We can also choose " Check for updates " and once inside this window click on " View update history "

• Within the window in question, we will have to click on " Uninstall Updates "

In any case, the window we will get will be the list of updates that Windows Update has been installing automatically during the time

Now, what we should do is look in the list for the update that has given us problems. It will surely be the last.

To see when each one of them was installed, what we have to do is go to the last column where it says " The one was installed " and there we will better identify which was the alleged one.

When we have located what we will do is click on it and choose " Uninstall " at the top of the window

The uninstall process will start and you may also ask us to restart the machine after the process. In this way we can now check if the problem we had could be solved by uninstalling the update.

Uninstall Windows 10 updates from recovery options

With the arrival of Windows 10 October Update 2018 we will have at our disposal another option to be able to uninstall updates from our computer. This way is through the Windows 10 recovery screen.

• To access it we must press start and on the button of the power options of our equipment Then we must press the " Shift " or " shift " key on our keyboard and press the "restart" button

• In this way and after a few seconds, the equipment will show a blue screen with various options available. We must choose " Solve problems "

• Then click on " Advanced options "

• And finally we click on the option " Uninstall updates "

Now we will be presented with two options:

• Uninstall the latest quality update: this option is to uninstall small updates such as those in the previous section. Uninstall the latest feature update: These correspond precisely to major system updates, and through this option we can also uninstall them.

This last option involves making important changes to the equipment, so it can take a long time. Once the process has started we should not touch anything.

In any case, the team will ask us for confirmation from us to carry out the actions.

These are the two ways we will have available to uninstall problematic Windows 10 updates.

Disable updates

In addition to uninstalling them, we also recommend deactivating Windows Update for a while. This will prevent the system from trying again to install the problematic update.

Over time, perhaps this package has been corrected or a new patch has been released to fix the error of the previous one.

To see how updates are deactivated visit our next tutorial:

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Did you manage to fix the problem with uninstalling the update? We hope that the tutorial has been useful for you if you did not know this option.