In this article, you’ll see “Best ways to easily Uninstall Windows 10 updates“. After updating Windows 10, if it causes a Blue screen of death, performance issues, missing some features, and facing any critical problem on your Windows 10 computer, then at that moment uninstalling your Windows 10 update plays a very important role to fix any type of issue.

In this article, you also going to see how to stay away from installing buggy updates.

Windows 10 comes with their updates often with an improvement of their quality. But sometimes you have to deal with some issues or face critical issues after updating a window.

Well, every update comes with patching of vulnerability but sometimes it caused the error, and sometimes window update comes with trial versions which have more chances to a caused error on your system.

Best methods to Uninstall Windows 10 Update 2023

Uninstall Windows 10 Update by using settings

To uninstall any update in window 10 just use the settings option:

Step 1: Open the “Start” menu, type “Settings“.

Step 2: Click on “Update & Security“

Step 3: Now, click on “View Update history“

Step 4: Then identify the update that you wish to remove

Note: You can see KB there, which denotes the number of patches.

Step 5: Click on “Uninstall updates“

Step 6: Now, open “Control Panel“, then navigate to “Program>Program and Features“, therein left-top you can see “view installed updates” click on it and find your window update, search update using the KB number.

Step 7: Do a right-click on an update you want to uninstall.

Step 8: Click “OK” to uninstall that update.

If you can’t able to find an update by using KB, then use the “installed on” date filter in the control panel to identify the latest updates.

How to uninstall Windows 10 update using Command Prompt?

You can easily able to uninstall your Windows 10 update that is no longer needed using the command prompt. You have to know the KB number of that update you want to remove.

Step 1: Open “windows search“

Step 2: Type, “cmd“

Step 3: Open “command prompt” by selecting “Run as administrator”

Step 4: Type below commands on prompt:

uninstall: wusa /uninstall /kb:005033

Step 5: Type “Y” when it asked to restart the PC and finish the un-installation.

Restart the computer after the update is removed, use the below command:

wuse /uninstall /kb:[id] /quiet

Want to ask about restart by computer, use below command:

wusa /uninstall /kb:[id] /promptrestart

Don’t want to restart the computer after removing a patch, follow the below commands:

wusa /uninstall /kb:[id] /quiet /norestart

Note: If you want to remove the update smoothly then you must restart your computer and remove the patch.

How to uninstall Window update using DISM tool?

In this method, you are going to remove updates of Window 10 using the DSIM tool,

Step 1: Open command prompt with administrator rights.

Step 2: Type below command in prompt,

dism /Online /Remove-Package /PackageName:[package ID]

Sometimes updates cannot be found by using KB ID so, in that case, you need to enter the last three or four-digit of the build number.

Step 3: After entering the above command, enter “Y” to restart your computer.

Here, you’re done with the DISM method of uninstalling installed an update of Windows 10.

How to uninstall windows update in Boot with advanced options?

Step 1: Open the settings of your window, navigate to “Update & Security> Recovery“.

Step 2: Click on Advanced Startup then “Troubleshoot”.

Step 3: Then, click on Advanced option > Uninstall updates.

At last, click on “Uninstall the latest quality update” or “Uninstall the latest feature update“. Then follow instructions that cames in the window.

How to uninstall Windows 10 update?

If you update your window and now, it won’t work properly. Then you can uninstall it just by using Settings.

Note: This method works if you update your window 10 within 10 days, after 10 days it won’t work.

Step 1: Open “settings” then click on “Update and Recovery > Recovery“.

Step 2: Then you can see the section “Go back to an earlier build section” and click on the below button “Get started“.

Step 3: Then the window asked you why you are going back to the previous build of Windows 10.

Step 4: Select any reason by selecting the checkbox, then click “Next“, you can also able to cancel it now.

Step 5: In the new window, you get options of “Check for updates” and “No thanks“. There is a chance that if there is any new update, it fixes your issues, and if you want to go back and uninstall the update then select “No thanks” to proceed with it.

Step 6: Select “Next” and proceed with it in the next window also.

Step 7: Atlast, select “Go back to an earlier build” it restarts your PC with the previous build.

You’re done with this method and easily able to uninstall the updated version of the previous version of Windows 10.

How to Uninstall Windows 10 Update via Factory Restore?

To uninstall updates in Window 10 using factory reset:

Step 1: Go to “settings>Update & Security > Recovery“

Step 2: Click on “Get started” under “Reset this PC” section.

Step 3: Now, in the pop-up window choose “Restore Factory Settings” which is the last option in the window. It erases Windows 10 update.

How to stop automatic updated in Window 10 permanently?

All ways to uninstall windows 10, you saw above so now you are going to see how to stop window 10 from being update.

How to block Updates of Windows in Window 10?

After an update is removed from your system, it is necessary to block auto updates.

Step 1: Download and open the “Show or hide updates” troubleshooter package from “Microsoft website“.

Step 2: After opening a tool click on “Next“.

Step 3: Click on “Hide updates“.

Step 4: Select the update you want to hide.

Ste 5: Click on Next to block that faulty Windows update from appearing again.

If in the future you want to reinstall those updates, launch the same tool again and un-hide the updates.

How to stop Window 10 updates from installing?

Step 1: Open the “run” dialog box.

Step 2: Type, “gpedit.msc” to open up “Local Group Policy Editor“.

Also read: How to open gpedit.msc in Windows 10

Step 3: Now, navigate to “Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update“.

Step 4: Now do double-click on “Configure Automatic Updates“

Step 5: Now on pop-up window, click “Enabled“.

Under options, there are 4 ways to configure programmed improvements, just choose one. Option2 not only prevent OS from automatically installed but also alert you a notification whenever a new update can be found.

Step 6: Click “OK” to do this configuration.

Conclusion

In this article, you see why you have to uninstall Windows 10 and you also see the best ways How to uninstall Windows 10 updates using the above best methods. You can use the above methods or you can take a backup also, of your system that helps you to fix any future issues that come in your computer after updating and atlast see How to stop windows 10 to update automatically.

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