View all Windows updates installed

How do I know which Windows updates are installed on your PC or server? Of course, you can open the Control Panel-Add/Remove Programs > "or the Update element History in Windows 7/2008 and see the list of installed updates, but using a graphical user buy windows 7 pro product key interface, you cannot unload this list, nor the search for him. In this case, you must resort to using the command line. You can use the following command to display a detailed list of all the windows 7 updates that are installed on the Windows system:

In this command, the results can be seen that, by whom and when, in addition, displays a link to the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB). In order to get the list of installed windows 7 updates in text form, you can simply redirect the output of this command to a text file, and then open it in your favorite text editor:


WMIC qfe list > updatelist.txt & & updatelist.txt
A text file named C:\Windows\System32\. in the directory is created updatelist.txt

If you want to know whether the specific update Windows on your system (for example, KB2544521), you can use the find command, redirecting the output:

WMIC qfe list | find "KB2544521"

As you can see, the KB2544521 update is already installed.

Another way to view installed updates in Windows-using utilities "systeminfo". This team is unlike previous displays only a list of windows 7 product keys numbers KB (in addition to the system information). In this case, you can also redirect the output of this command to a text file:

SYSTEMINFO > sysinfo.txt & & sysinfo.txt
However be careful, all of these commands displays only installed updates and hotfixes for the Windows operating system, information about updates to any other Microsoft products (such as, UAG, Office, TMG, SQL or Exchange) listed here. To view installed updates on these products, you must dial start menu: "View Installed Updates", which opens the standard window, accessible from the control panel.

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To search for a specific update, you can in the search box (top right corner) to dial the number of the KB and update, but the search is not very accurate, so it is sometimes easier to find the right upgrade easy viewing list.

Also when installing updates, do not forget that they require a system reboot. In Windows 7 after installing updates, it restarts automatically, that's fairly uncomfortable. Fortunately, you can disable automatic restart Windows after you install updates.