{"id":16762,"date":"2019-05-18T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T23:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16762"},"modified":"2019-05-18T20:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T00:09:42","slug":"16762-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/16762-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Windows Update History Using a Command Prompt\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 28pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><strong>Check Windows Update History Using a Command Prompt\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: #008000;\"><em>This tip is for Windows 10 (all versions except the beta &#8211; insider&#8217;s version &#8211; of Windows 10 Version 1903)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Windows updates are installed automatically and ensure that your Windows your system is up-to-date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and hotfixes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And you probably already know that you can check your Windows Update history by going to Settings &gt; Update &amp; Security &gt; Windows Update and click on \u201cView installed update history\u201d. But there\u2019s another way. And it may be faster for you. You can check your update history using Command Prompt this way:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Type CMD in taskbar search and press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">At the prompt in the Command Prompt window, enter the following command:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><code><strong>wmic qfe list<\/strong><\/code><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And press Enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/qfe1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/qfe3a.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips \" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">All your updates will be listed in order of installation date.\u00a0 And what&#8217;s even better, you are given a URL (web address) for the update. If you&#8217;re interested and want to know what each update contains, just type the URL from the Command Prompt window into your favorite browser&#8217;s address bar. If you really want to save time, type the &#8220;kbid&#8221; as a KB number into Google search. For instance, the last update says &#8220;kbid=4499167&#8221; so type KB4499167 into Google search and you&#8217;ll see the page with information about the update called KB449167.<\/span>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/qfe4.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight Windows 10 tips \" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you\u2019re a Windows PowerShell fan, you\u2019ll be happy to know that you can use PowerShell instead of a Command Prompt and achieve the same results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Check Windows Update History Using a Command Prompt\u00a0 This tip is for Windows 10 (all versions except the beta &#8211; insider&#8217;s version &#8211; of Windows 10 Version 1903) Windows updates are installed automatically and ensure that your Windows your system is up-to-date with the latest security patches, bug fixes, and hotfixes. 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