Show or Hide Updates Troubleshooter for Windows 10

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Hello.  Just wanted to know if (or when) I need to use the Show or Hide Updates Troubleshooter .. would I be required to turn off the “Pause” and the Metered Connection in Windows Updates settings in order to successfully use the troubleshooter?

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The main advantage of wushowhide (wush), to me, is that it allows me to “hide” any update(s) which are available but which I don’t want to install just yet.  Hiding an update means that Windows Update will not see it.  In Windows Update, if you have updates paused or deferred, wush will not see them even if nothing is hidden, nor will Windows Update.  However, some updates fall outside that scope,notably .net updates, so wush and Windows Update will find any such regardless.  If you also wish to defer these, hide them in wush, and unhide them later, e.g when your pause or deferral period expires.

If you want to know what is currently available for your system, even though a deferral period is in force, you can use the Belarc Advisor.  This program does not know about any deferrals or hides, so it will just tell you what is missing (but without attempting to download or install anything).  For example, being still within my 14 day deferral, both wush and Windows Update are telling me that no updates are available.  But Belarc Advisor says that I have six updates missing, of which five are”quality” updates and one is an update for .net which I have previously hidden using wush.

I’m not sure why wush is called a “troubleshooter”, but whenever I run it I am always careful to first select “Advanced” and then deselect “Apply repairs automatically”, because I don’t know what else it might do.

Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 20H2

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Just a note. Belarc seems to take at least a couple of days to come up to speed on new updates even though it d/ls ‘new’ updates every time.

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AKB2000016 is a suggested Guide to Windows Update for Win10.

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I had paused my January and February Win10 updates. What I feel that I should have done is just hide them. The pause expired and down the chute they came. When they appear in CHECKED FOR UPDATES, I should have hid them like I did in Windows 7. That way I would have had better control. Will go back and read your article, don’t know why I am having an issue with Win 10 understanding as in Win 7 all you did was hide them and then unhide them. Should be able to understand but for some reason there is a block in my understanding.

Win 10 Home 22H2

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I have been using wushowhide since February. Today, when I opened it, it triggered the UAC (User Account Control) dialog box. In the past, it simply opens. What could be causing it to trigger the UAC?

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Are you logged in with a Standard ID or an Admin ID?
Have you tried rebooting the computer and trying it again?
I have run it on two of my v1909 today logged in with an Admin account, and neither required UAC approval.

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Running Win10/Pro, version 1909: Control Panel > User Accounts > User Accounts says I am running as an administrator. I get the UAC dialog box, despite shutting down and powering up or alternatively, despite restarting.

Yes, me, too, on my other laptop (Win10/Pro, version 1909), wushowhide just opens, no UAC appproval first.

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[EP]

try deleting the existing wushowhide tool and download a clean copy of it from either MS support article 3073930 or 3183922. after downloading a fresh copy of wushowhide, right-click on it, choose Properties and click on the check box to “Unblock” it and click OK

maybe also place the wushowhide tool in a different folder

edit – I get no such UAC prompts when launching wushowhide, regardless of whether I turned off the UAC notifications or have them turned on

• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by EP.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by EP.
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What will happen with the May Patch Tuesday patches that I have hidden, if I delete it and download it again?

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Nothing. The patches that are hidden stay hidden (if they have not been changed by MS and appear as a new version).

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Hi,

FWIW if I go to Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Security and Maintenance > Change User Account Control setting and then lower the setting from ‘Always Notify’, running wushowhide will then stop triggering the UAC dialog box.

Using Windows 10 Home v1909 64 Bit with Admin User Account.

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Hooray, that’s the solution. I have no idea how the UAC settings got changed to “Always Notify”. I certainly didn’t do it and no one else uses this machine. Things pop up every once in a while, most recently the “Snipper”, even though I haven’t clicked on it nor done the keyboard shortcut for it.

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