Troubleshooting Windows Updates: A Step-by-Step Guide

If you're experiencing issues with your Windows updates, don't worry! In this article, we'll walk you through a step-by-step guide on how to troubleshoot and fix problems with your Windows 11 updates.

**Workaround for Known Issues**

Firstly, if you've received an update that's causing issues, try the following workaround. Open the Settings app, go to Update & Security, and then click on "View installed updates". Find the update that's causing the issue and click on it. You should see a "Learn more" button next to it. Clicking on this will give you all the information about the individual update, including any known issues or bugs.

**Uninstalling Updates**

If the issue is due to a specific update, you can try uninstalling it. To do this, open the Control Panel, go to Programs and Features, and then click on "View installed updates". Find the update that's causing the issue and select it. Click on the "Uninstall" button and follow the prompts to complete the uninstallation process.

**Pausing Updates**

If you're experiencing issues with an upcoming update, you can pause it until a fix is released by Microsoft. Open the Settings app, go to Update & Security, and then click on "Pause updates". Choose how long you want to pause the updates for (e.g., one week, two weeks, etc.). This will stop the update from being installed immediately.

**Importance of Pausing Updates**

It's essential to note that pausing updates is not a permanent solution. Once paused, Microsoft may release another update that fixes the issue or patches the bug. If you're experiencing issues with an update and want to pause it, make sure to check for new updates regularly to resume the process when a fix is released.

**Resume Updates**

When you're ready to resume your Windows updates, simply click on the "Resume" button in the Settings app under Update & Security. This will start installing all available updates, including any security patches and feature updates.

**Differentiating Between Feature Updates and Security Updates**

It's worth noting that there are two types of updates: feature updates and security updates. Security updates are essential for keeping your system secure, but they may contain bugs or issues. If you're not experiencing any issues with your system, it's perfectly fine to wait a few weeks before installing the latest security update.

**Microsoft's Release Schedule**

Microsoft releases updates regularly, but sometimes they do so too early without proper testing. This can lead to issues on some systems. It's essential to be patient and wait for a few weeks before installing new updates, especially if you're experiencing issues with previous updates.

**Conclusion**

Troubleshooting Windows updates is relatively straightforward once you know the steps involved. By following these tips, you should be able to fix any issues with your system and keep it running smoothly. Remember to always pause updates until a fix is released by Microsoft, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any further questions or concerns.

**Additional Resources**

For more information on troubleshooting Windows updates, we recommend checking out our YouTube channel, where we provide in-depth guides and tutorials on various topics related to computing and technology. We also have a community of members who join our YouTube group, where you can ask questions, share your experiences, and get support from fellow tech enthusiasts.

**Shout-out to Our Members**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat you guys got another video on how to fix problems with your windows 11 updates and how to uninstall updates and how to find out whether there was a known issue with that Windows 11 update now you can use this method also on Windows 10 as well so first off what we're going to do here is go to the Windows updates panel so just going to open this up right here and right inside here this is where all of your Windows update information will be so first off let's go to update history so we're going to click on this one here and this will open up this little panel here and you can see the quality updates are listed right here we got definition updates listed right there and we've got other updates listed down here so what you'll noticed here on the quality updates and the definition updates here so let's click on this one here let's assume that you're having an issue with the latest update you've downloaded it and now something is not working on your PC maybe it's a piece of Hardware that's not working correctly or maybe it was something to do with some uh Windows feature that is now not working correctly because you've downloaded a update which is having an issue what you can do here is click on this learn more so we're going to click on learn more here this will then take us to the internet and open up a web page and it will give us information so we're going to go ahead and click on always for Google Chrome and this will open up this window here and here we have the actual window open now you can see we've got the kb4023057 and this will give us information about the update it will give you some of this summary it says it supports Windows 10 and windows 11 here and you can go through and it will give you a full breakdown of exactly what you've just downloaded and installed on your computer and this can be helpful when you're troubleshooting an issue maybe your issue will be noted here and it will tell you under the known issue section which isn't on this page but I'll show you another one in a second you can see it will show you the location of installation it'll also show you uh it's running as an an active service here and it will give you information about how you can open the firewall settings here to help it work correctly so let's take a look at another update here and you can see it's giv us some information like highlights and it will tell you exactly uh what this feature update has given us security also it's given us a bunch of other security features and you can see new here and it will give you all of the location where the settings are another thing is narrator and emojis backup and restore window share file explorer these are all been added in and you can see it'll give you all the information about what this update has done done to your computer so it's quite useful if you're having an issue in a certain location you can have a look here to see whether that was due to the update that they've just rolled out improvements you can see here by looking at the dropdown it will give you some of the improvements you can see this build includes all the improvements for Windows 11 version 22 H2 no additional issues are documented for this particular release and you can go through and check here now there is a known issue area here which is quite useful which will give us all of the known issues for this particular update so if you had no problem with your computer before you rolled out this update you can come to this page here by clicking on that more info and it will give you the more info about this and give you the known issues for this particular update and it may tie in with something that you're having a problem with on your computer and it might be listed here which will give you a bit of a uh an inkling of what the workaround is to fix and resolve this problem or maybe uninstall the update all together if it's a known issue and you can uninstall it and put a pause on that update and this will all be listed inside the Windows updates update history and you can see learn more you can click on this and it will give you all the information about each individual update now if you want to uninstall an update you can do you can get the number that you want to uninstall and find it on the uninstaller program and it should be listed in there and you can uninstall it so you can go to the start button here and then type in here control panel and go to control panel and you'll be able to remove it from there so let me quickly show you uh where we can remove this so we're going to go over to control panel here click on uh programs and you can see uninstall a program here then we want to go up to the top here where it says view installed updates and choose the update that you want to uninstall and just uninstall it that simple and that's done and restart your PC now again remember if you are uninstalling a Windows update it's important that you obviously don't go back in and start to do Windows updates again because it will pull it straight back down and install it back on the system and you'll end up with the same known issue so you definitely don't want to be doing uh a reinstall of that update straight away you may need to pause updates until Microsoft uh work out a fix for that particular update before you go ahead and you you can do that right here there's a pause up there you can see it wants to come down I can hit pause right here and there's a pause right here to stop that from coming down and you can pause your updates right here so just's go ahead and just quickly uh pause these updates so you can see how it works so go over to this area and you can pause for one week two weeks and so on there by choosing whatever you like and then once that's done you can change this to as long as you like so we can do two weeks here you can see up until the 31st of the 1 2024 is going to be paused and that will pause the update and stop it coming back down until Microsoft release uh a fix for it now sometimes Microsoft will pull the update if it's uh causing major problems and they will stop it coming down or being pushed out to people but unfortunately some people do like to update straight away and I've always been advising people never to update Windows directly straight away you want to wait a little while wait a few weeks and give it time to make sure there's no known issues or bugs because it's only going to make your system unstable and Microsoft are known for releasing updates that are full of bugs and uh it's best to wait now to resume your updates you can click on the resume button and this will then start to resume all of your Windows updates the normal way you can see here get the latest updates as soon as they're released this is going to push updates out to you first and if you have that radio button toggled on it's going to push all of the uh updates to to you first and this means that you'll be first in the queue and I really wouldn't uh do that straight away I would always wait a few more weeks so again that how you can troubleshoot your Windows updates and this is a really good way to find out all the information about the update that you've just received or an update that you may have received a week ago and now you're having issues Microsoft are known for releasing updates way too early before they've been tested and you can end up with major problems on your PC no PC is the same everyone will have different issues and some people may not have issues whatsoever so it just depends from computer to computer now there is a difference between feature updates and security updates and uh security updates are essential but there can be bugs in some security updates you don't have to get security updates immediately soon as they are released you're not going to be hacked if you don't get the latest update within the first minutes of it being released by Microsoft but if you just get it a few weeks later you'll be perfectly fine anyway with that said I think that's going to be about it for this video my name is been Brian from bric computers. co.uk that's how you can troubleshoot and fix problems with your windows 11 updates just want to say a quick shout out to all my YouTube members who are join my YouTube members group I really appreciate the support hope you had a lovely Christmas and I shall catch you in the very next video or I'll see you on the Discord Ser for chat bye for now awhat you guys got another video on how to fix problems with your windows 11 updates and how to uninstall updates and how to find out whether there was a known issue with that Windows 11 update now you can use this method also on Windows 10 as well so first off what we're going to do here is go to the Windows updates panel so just going to open this up right here and right inside here this is where all of your Windows update information will be so first off let's go to update history so we're going to click on this one here and this will open up this little panel here and you can see the quality updates are listed right here we got definition updates listed right there and we've got other updates listed down here so what you'll noticed here on the quality updates and the definition updates here so let's click on this one here let's assume that you're having an issue with the latest update you've downloaded it and now something is not working on your PC maybe it's a piece of Hardware that's not working correctly or maybe it was something to do with some uh Windows feature that is now not working correctly because you've downloaded a update which is having an issue what you can do here is click on this learn more so we're going to click on learn more here this will then take us to the internet and open up a web page and it will give us information so we're going to go ahead and click on always for Google Chrome and this will open up this window here and here we have the actual window open now you can see we've got the kb4023057 and this will give us information about the update it will give you some of this summary it says it supports Windows 10 and windows 11 here and you can go through and it will give you a full breakdown of exactly what you've just downloaded and installed on your computer and this can be helpful when you're troubleshooting an issue maybe your issue will be noted here and it will tell you under the known issue section which isn't on this page but I'll show you another one in a second you can see it will show you the location of installation it'll also show you uh it's running as an an active service here and it will give you information about how you can open the firewall settings here to help it work correctly so let's take a look at another update here and you can see it's giv us some information like highlights and it will tell you exactly uh what this feature update has given us security also it's given us a bunch of other security features and you can see new here and it will give you all of the location where the settings are another thing is narrator and emojis backup and restore window share file explorer these are all been added in and you can see it'll give you all the information about what this update has done done to your computer so it's quite useful if you're having an issue in a certain location you can have a look here to see whether that was due to the update that they've just rolled out improvements you can see here by looking at the dropdown it will give you some of the improvements you can see this build includes all the improvements for Windows 11 version 22 H2 no additional issues are documented for this particular release and you can go through and check here now there is a known issue area here which is quite useful which will give us all of the known issues for this particular update so if you had no problem with your computer before you rolled out this update you can come to this page here by clicking on that more info and it will give you the more info about this and give you the known issues for this particular update and it may tie in with something that you're having a problem with on your computer and it might be listed here which will give you a bit of a uh an inkling of what the workaround is to fix and resolve this problem or maybe uninstall the update all together if it's a known issue and you can uninstall it and put a pause on that update and this will all be listed inside the Windows updates update history and you can see learn more you can click on this and it will give you all the information about each individual update now if you want to uninstall an update you can do you can get the number that you want to uninstall and find it on the uninstaller program and it should be listed in there and you can uninstall it so you can go to the start button here and then type in here control panel and go to control panel and you'll be able to remove it from there so let me quickly show you uh where we can remove this so we're going to go over to control panel here click on uh programs and you can see uninstall a program here then we want to go up to the top here where it says view installed updates and choose the update that you want to uninstall and just uninstall it that simple and that's done and restart your PC now again remember if you are uninstalling a Windows update it's important that you obviously don't go back in and start to do Windows updates again because it will pull it straight back down and install it back on the system and you'll end up with the same known issue so you definitely don't want to be doing uh a reinstall of that update straight away you may need to pause updates until Microsoft uh work out a fix for that particular update before you go ahead and you you can do that right here there's a pause up there you can see it wants to come down I can hit pause right here and there's a pause right here to stop that from coming down and you can pause your updates right here so just's go ahead and just quickly uh pause these updates so you can see how it works so go over to this area and you can pause for one week two weeks and so on there by choosing whatever you like and then once that's done you can change this to as long as you like so we can do two weeks here you can see up until the 31st of the 1 2024 is going to be paused and that will pause the update and stop it coming back down until Microsoft release uh a fix for it now sometimes Microsoft will pull the update if it's uh causing major problems and they will stop it coming down or being pushed out to people but unfortunately some people do like to update straight away and I've always been advising people never to update Windows directly straight away you want to wait a little while wait a few weeks and give it time to make sure there's no known issues or bugs because it's only going to make your system unstable and Microsoft are known for releasing updates that are full of bugs and uh it's best to wait now to resume your updates you can click on the resume button and this will then start to resume all of your Windows updates the normal way you can see here get the latest updates as soon as they're released this is going to push updates out to you first and if you have that radio button toggled on it's going to push all of the uh updates to to you first and this means that you'll be first in the queue and I really wouldn't uh do that straight away I would always wait a few more weeks so again that how you can troubleshoot your Windows updates and this is a really good way to find out all the information about the update that you've just received or an update that you may have received a week ago and now you're having issues Microsoft are known for releasing updates way too early before they've been tested and you can end up with major problems on your PC no PC is the same everyone will have different issues and some people may not have issues whatsoever so it just depends from computer to computer now there is a difference between feature updates and security updates and uh security updates are essential but there can be bugs in some security updates you don't have to get security updates immediately soon as they are released you're not going to be hacked if you don't get the latest update within the first minutes of it being released by Microsoft but if you just get it a few weeks later you'll be perfectly fine anyway with that said I think that's going to be about it for this video my name is been Brian from bric computers. co.uk that's how you can troubleshoot and fix problems with your windows 11 updates just want to say a quick shout out to all my YouTube members who are join my YouTube members group I really appreciate the support hope you had a lovely Christmas and I shall catch you in the very next video or I'll see you on the Discord Ser for chat bye for now a\n"