What's up guys, and welcome back to another awesome tech tip Tuesday's Yes, hopefully
you guys are doing well.
So let's get started.
So today is all about rolling back Windows updates.
And let's get into it.
So within my desktop, I'm going to right click on the Start menu, go to run, and I'm going
to type in WINVER, hit OK.
And I just want to show you guys that I'm running everything within a build of 19587
within Windows 10.
Now the build doesn't really matter but I'd like to show you guys what I am working with
in my environment.
So first things first, we need to click on that start menu, and we need to click on that
little sprocket to get into settings.
And once you get inside windows settings, we are going to click on update and security.
And from here you're automatically are going to be placed inside the Windows Update section.
Now, you need to click on View update history but if you expand one of these guys, you're
gonna see all the updates that have been pushed out now the only time to roll back or uninstall
a windows operating system update is when you're having a lot of issues you weren't
having any issues last night, that's when you need to roll back.
You have to like oh my god, what happened last night on a Windows Update.
So you go in here to remove it.
Now it's super simple because it gives you an option that says uninstall updates.
Now don't freak out.
I had to find a machine that had updates because my preview machine my Windows Insider preview
did not have any updates that I'm able to show you guys how it looks.
I found a machine within my environment and when you guys click on uninstall updates it's
going to take you here, you are able to select whatever update was pushed out to you last
night or the day before just sort the column that says install on to the latest one.
Let's say an update was pushed out last night and it's causing a lot of problems.
You find the one that was done on last night, select it and click on that button uninstall.
Follow the prompts and what's going to happen is your machine is going to reboot and finalize
the uninstall update from from your machine.
Now another way to do this is if you have System Restore within your machine.
So what is System Restore, it takes a snapshot every time a huge windows update is being
pushed out to your machine.
If an update is causing a lot of problems, you are able to go back in time when the update
wasn't pushed out.
Now I'm going to show you guys how to set that up because I had a machine that was not
set up.
So let's go.
So we're going to click on Start, and we're going to type in recovery and we're going
to click on the recovery is going to take you directly here, and we are going to click
on Open System Restore.
Now if this was working correctly within my environment, and it went straight through,
but if you do not have it configured, you're going to see this.
So you're going to click on system protection and it's going to load up depending on how
many partitions you guys got.
You pick the one that you want to System Restore to start taking snapshots C Drive is the one
that I want.
And I'm going to select that and then click on configure, and it's going to give you this
nice little system protection from the Windows C. You want to turn it on.
And then at the very bottom for the disk space usage, you are going to adjust it now for
this video, I'm only going to give it 5% because it's only a virtual machine.
If you have a huge hard drive space, I would kind of recommend doing maybe 25% of disk
storage for your system restore, once you adjust your disk space usage, you're going
to apply it, okay, it's and from here, you're going to click on Create, give your restore
point a name, I'm going to give it a date and create and it's going to start creating
the Restore Point.
And then you're done.
I'm going to close it.
Okay, now boom.
Now, let's say you had this already up and running, and there was an update that was
causing a lot of problems and you're not able to uninstall, but you are able to roll back
in time to yesterday's
System Restore.
So if it was working, you know, click on Open System Restore, you're gonna get the wizard
right I don't have the 'X' anymore because I got it configured.
Click on Next, but for here, let's say there was an update that was pushed out last night
and I want to go back in time so I'm going to select it, click next and then you just
going to follow the prompts to do a system restore.
Now once you follow the prompts, most likely what's going to happen is your machine is
going to again restart itself to finish removing that Windows update that was pushed out to
your machine.
And that's it.
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