Select the correct updates and Decline them by either right-clicking the selected updates and clicking decline or by pressing the decline button in the action pane. The updates to be declined have one of two particular flowchart symbols for their updates pictured in the attached image. Select and Decline the Superceded Updates Right-click the column headers and select Supercedence.ĥ.
Note that it is supplied as an archive that you do need to extract before you may run it.Set the display to show the Approval status of 'Any except Declined' with a Status of 'Any'. You can download the file with a click on the following link: You need to right-click on the file and select "run as administrator" as it requires administrative privileges.
We have uploaded a batch file to our own server which you may run to execute the commands automatically.
If you navigate to the folder manually, you may need to enable the showing of hidden files first. Go to C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download using Explorer or any third-party file browser.Right-click on the service Windows Update and select Stop from the menu.Click on name to revert the order so that you don't need to scroll as much. The services listing is sorted alphabetically by default. Right-click on the result, and select "run as administrator" from the context menu.Open the Start Menu (tap on the Windows-key or click on it).
This works on all supported versions of Windows, including Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. It is thankfully pretty easy to delete all cached update files.