Windows – How to search on Windows Update History

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If I try to search for a KB Number on Control Panel > Windows Update > View Update History, typing on the upper right corner search box, the search is not performed on the History but on the Control Panel itself.

How to search on completed/failed updates ?

Best Answer

Use Powershell to search for installed Windows updates

Get-Hotfix retrieves all current installed updates on the machine, use the -id switch to specify KB number.

Example:

PS C:\Users\User> Get-HotFix -Id kb974322
Get-HotFix : Cannot find the requested hotfix on the 'localhost' computer. Verify the input and run the command again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-HotFix -Id kb974322
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-HotFix], ArgumentException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : GetHotFixNoEntriesFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetHotFixCommand

PS C:\Users\User> Get-HotFix -Id kb3105216

Source        Description      HotFixID      InstalledBy          InstalledOn
------        -----------      --------      -----------          -----------
LP     Security Update  KB3105216     NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM  11-4-2015 00:00:00


PS C:\Users\User> Get-HotFix -Id kb3105216 | fl


Description         : Security Update
FixComments         :
HotFixID            : KB3105216
InstallDate         :
InstalledBy         : NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
InstalledOn         : 11-4-2015 00:00:00
Name                :
ServicePackInEffect :
Status              :
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