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Hello !
I’m on Win 11 22H2 and I don’t know why but windows updates no longer offers me cumulative updates since January, only the .Net, microsoft Defenders and the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool.
My last cumulative update installed is the KB5033375 in December.
Do you know what is my problem ?
Note that to see the updates that are hidden in wushowhide, you must choose show hidden updates. To see those updates that can be hidden, choose Hide updates.
To see all updates, you first choose Hide…, then restart wushowhide and choose show… Yes, its user interface is clunky.
Do a full disk Image of the drive instead of cloning.
When you clone, the clone requires the whole destination drive.
If you do a full disk IMAGE, you can have multiple images on the same drive. So you only need as much space on the destination as the compressed image. To restore the drive, you make a bootable rescue USB, boot from it, and restore. But an added advantage is, you can mount the image and retrieve any data (a file, folder, etc) you need.
Hi “Marvel Wars”, have a Dell Latitude 7420 with Win 11 Pro installed, and had similar issues (since Nov. CU, the last one recorded) updates would install, .Net and other showed up in the Windows Update history, but no CUs since Nov. 2023. Decided to manually download from Microsoft update site (not using the right name) April’s Win 11 CU and it reported back that it was already installed. This is one of those scenarios, the updates pulled up / installed / rebooted with no issues this past several months and it was just me being anal that discovered the Update history wasn’t right in mid-April.
So far, out of the 50 + machines we managed on an on-premise domain, I’m the only one experiencing the issue.
Needless to say, I’ll be watching May’s updates very carefully and see if my hypothesis of it being a Windows Update reporting issue holds or not. I likely won’t know the results till the end of May, as I try to avoid updating till at least a couple of weeks after the latest patch Tuesday has gone by.
Take care,
IT Manager Geek
Thanks to Deimon for reminding, and my well deserved face palm moment, to finding out that I have 22631.3447 installed and to “Marvel Wars” question I have 23H2 (that part took me longer than I expected to collaborate, as I didn’t want to presume further).
And with Deimon’s follow up, yes we’ve proven that in my situation (working on the machine now) it’s an Update history problem.
Hopefully I saved both “Marvel Wars” and myself some future time and get on to bigger issues (as to which there’s no shortage of).
Take care,
IT Manager Geek
When you run the winver program, if the build number matches that month’s number (it is in the title of the KB article for each cumulative update), IMO that means all is ok.
So if your build number in winver is currently 22621.3447 then you are ok.
a Windows Update reporting issue
What WU Update report are you referring to?
I run this PowerShell command for a quick look…
Get-Hotfix | Sort-Object InstalledOn
First thing I’d try is running the Windows Update Troubleshooter. Sometimes it can clear up update problems. If that doesn’t work, check if your update settings are set to pause updates or if there’s any specific update policy applied.
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