Rollback of Buggy Windows Updates

Sometimes Microsoft rolls out automatic updates that will cause problems on your computer. If this is the case, removing (rolling back) the problematic update may be required. You can remove recent updates with the following steps.

• Open Recovery Console using one of the following
  • Press Shift during restart with GUI -OR-
  • Hitting F8 during boot -OR-
  • Boot from recovery media

Once the Recovery Console is running, get a list of recent updates using one of the following methods:

• Open Powershell to list updates

  Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_QuickFixEngineering
  

• If the now depreciated wmic command is still available to you

  wmic qfe list brief
  

After you determine which update is to be removed, i.e. KB5074109

• Uninstall with the command

  wusa /uninstall /kb:5074109
  (or another kb number)
  

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