From time to time, we receive updates in Windows 10. Unfortunately, some of the ones that we have received may be generating problems of operation on the computer. In these cases, it is important that we can locate it and that we are going to eliminate it at that time, that we can uninstall it, to end the problems.
The first step is, therefore, to see What Windows 10 updates do we have installed on the computer?. This is something that we can easily check. Here we show you the way in which to do it. In this way, we can identify the one that may be giving us problems.
In this case, the computer has a kind of update history. It is in this history where we will be able to see all the updates we have received in it over time. Very useful information, in case there is any that is causing problems on the computer. Accessing this history is also very simple.
How to Check Installed Updates in Windows 10
First of all, we will have to open Windows 10 settings on the computer. So we can click on the cogwheel icon in the start menu or use the Win + I key combination on the keyboard so that it will open on the screen of our computer. When we have it on the screen, we can start.
- Let’s get into this case in the Update and Security section, which usually comes out last normally.
- Once inside it, we look at the column on the left side. We have to click on the Windows Update option, which usually comes out first.
- In the center of the screen, we will then see the options in this section. Here we find the option called View update history. On this option we have to press then.
- So we are already in the section where we can see the updates we have received in Windows 10.
- In the first section, we can see the feature updates, which is a term that refers to major updates to the operating system.
Those that are released every six months, therefore. The updates received will then appear in the list, unless you have deleted them or have previously restored the computer. If it is this update that is causing problems, we can see it in this section.
We can see that we also find other sections, which show various types of updates. Windows 10 divides them into quality updates, definition updates and we have the others section. In this sense, we will have to look for the update that has caused this problem. The normal thing is that it is a recent one, probably the last one. In case you don’t know what it is, search these categories for the most recent of all.
If there are problems with one what to do?
You’re probably looking for these Windows 10 updates because there is one that is giving you problems, as we have already mentioned before. If you have finally located it, in this section we have an option that is to uninstall updates.
So we have to click on it. It will take us to a new screen, where we can choose which update we want to remove from the computer. We can choose from the said list.
It is a very useful option, with which you can end the problems that a specific update is causing in Windows 10.
Also, as you can see, the process itself does not present too many complications. The most important thing in this case, which is sometimes not easy, is knowing which update is causing these problems.
Thus, we can either wait for a new one to be launched or install it again. There may be cases in which there is a failure in this update, so we wait for them to be solved, before installing it once more on the PC.