Uninstalling microsoft security updates

I see KB is a servicing stack update i. Sorry, SSU's cannot be uninstalled as this is by design How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site.

Bhav Patel. In reply to Sumit Independent Advisor 's post on July 20, Spoke to Dell and they reckon it is the security update The network panel did not come out wifi list. I cannot unistall the update, so how am i suppose to overcome this problem? Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. I was able to uninstall for a handfull of workstations yesterday - but now today its prompting that "the update is necessary". So, yesterday on a clients system we went so far as to do a network reset, and when that didn't fix the issue we did a Windows refresh, which overinstalled Windows This was before I knew what the issue was I am now in a state where this update is unable to be uninstalled - neither the command line fix, nor uninstalling from Windows Update settings works.

Am I forced to either completely reinstall Windows or wait for Microsoft to release a hotfix? Unforunatly that does not solve it. Hello kpackaging Please use powershell for it:.

Remove-WindowsPackage : Permanent package cannot be uninstalled. Removing Windows 10 updates and installing an older version of the OS is not without its own set of headaches. You can uninstall updates you no longer need straight from the Command Prompt. If you want to automatically restart the computer after the update is removed, you can use the following command instead:.

If you want to get a prompt asking you to restart the computer, use the following command instead:. Note that you must restart the computer manually to properly remove the patch. The above command will only delay the process and system reboot is still mandatory. This is because there are updates that are required by your computer and the process might fail with the following error message:.

Security update for Microsoft Windows is required by your computer and cannot be uninstalled.