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Bruce R. Sorry, I see I kinda wrote that wrong. I meant the gentleman that made the program had very good instructions, and lengthy and simple to understand and when done u get a list of what the program found as far as KB’s that were either deleted or hidden I can’t remember right now. Thanks for pointing my mistake out.
drdoo2 / Pat

jwoods. Yea I know Woody was a little dubious but I got the impression he was leaning more towards it being ok. I read all of the gentleman that has the programs info on it and it had very very good instructions for the program which was good, simple and complete. And after the program runs ur told what Updates were deleted and other things with written explanation about that. I havent had any problems that I am aware of with both. Thanks.
drdoo2

yea I am learning. Just keep with woody and the newsletter.
Pat

Ok. Thanks. Yea I got 810 or 812 Optional is all. I know Woody was just talking about Oct. stuff but, I just wanted to make sure. Seems like I can get Updates from the first to the second Tues or whenever lol.
drdoo2

Wavy/David. Sorry, I have no idea what the ” quiet” switch is. Pls Explain if u feel like it so I know . Thanks very much.
Pat

jwoods. My fault I guess. I only left clicked on the cmd prompt? didn’t know any different? I don’t think u mentioned it at the time of explaining. all this is so hard to do by writing. Problem solved now very simple. Thanks for all ur help I know I have been a pain in the butt and appreciate u taking ur time. Thanks very much.
Pat

Simple 56 second procedure on Youtube. Go to the Search charms on the right side of screen in 8.1. Type in ” Installed Updates” Underneath that click on View. Takes u to ur Installed Updates. Left click on Update to be uninstalled and click on Uninstall and Yes and bye bye update . U can probably eliminate the Search Charms and go to Control Panel and get all ur updates showing that way and use same process. Geez. Thanks for all ur help.
Pat

Ok this should not be this difficult lol. I did it again in the Cmd Prompt put a space after each word or a space before the forward / and pressed Enter and nothing I didn’t even get the popup box this time? I give up

browni. Ok I didn’t notice that on jwoods example. The other gentleman has no spaces shown. Just wanted to mention when I fill in the black pop up box in with the command I am pressing Enter. I can’t see anything else to do there and I am not getting any popup box to click Yes in for an Administrator Permission. I have an Administrator. Jwoods says Select Run as Administrator. I am not seeing those words in a popup or anywhere else. Let me try the space thing that is probably my mistake. Thanks to both.
Pat

yes, Jwoods. That took me to the same place I was before. There is a Roland JS that wrote here also saying a little different than u and neither are working for me. He wrote: wusa/uninstall/kb:2976978/norestart/quiet I assume after it is typed in u press the Enter Key which brings up a very big pop up with what looks like a bunch of options u cant click on any of them but one is to uninstal KB’s and all u can do is click on the OK button and nothing happens the KB that installed itself yesterday is still there and it is a Win 10 nagware KB that I just listed
Pat

ok thanks

jwoods. Man I’m sorry I’m a pain in the ass. I guess I’m not sure what an elevated Run as Administrator is. I went to my start button (which I had installed) and typed cmd in the box and hit enter and get the black box with System 32 at the top. I typed in what u put down and I got a big pop up for a Installer with a bunch of different stuff it looked like it can do and it did list it would uninstall a kb number and I clicked on OK and nothing happened. somehow today I got KB 2976978 Installed on my PC and I didn’t do it. It is listed in my INstalled KB updates but not the Update History Updates????? Strange. Am I going about the Administrator thing the right way???
Pat

Thanks jwoods. It’s kinda funny but the PC I have now is a Dell Desktop Win 8.1 bought mid Dec of last year. I had Vista on my first PC for 8yrs. I was just an email, Messenger, pics and that kind of thing for that long. I didn’t even know what a Windows Update was lol. About a month before I bought this PC I started reading alot on the Web about trying to find more Ram for my Vista and none was available but u know how it is if u go on the Web for one thing u start coming across other things and perked my interest to learn. But, the absolute biggest thing was the culture shock of going from Vista to Win 8.1. I had bought some of Woody’s books in the past and immediately went out and bought his fantastic 8.1 which was full of Win 8.1 info but also tons of other stuff and since then I have learned alot and read everything I can. Still an average user as far as knowledge goes but learning fast. lol Thanks again.
Pat

Thanks jwoods. I thought that I had read that u have like 60 to 90 days to install them but I could be wrong on this. And I also believe I read a couple of times but, again it has been awhile that if u don’t Update with say Critical updates or any updates u would no longer get Microsoft support and they would quit sending Updates to u. But, I am going to respect ur answer. Thanks.
Pat

Thanks for that info. But, what happens with Microsoft if u uninstall an update? Will they stop sending them etc. What are the repurcustions of uninstalling any.
Pat