Do any of you know of a reliable way to print a complete text copy of
the Windows 10 update list?

TIA

PS This stumped Copilot even.

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John C. wrote:

Do any of you know of a reliable way to print a complete text copy of
the Windows 10 update list?

TIA

PS This stumped Copilot even.

On your device or from the online Windows Update history web page?


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"John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> wrote:

Do any of you know of a reliable way to print a complete text copy of
the Windows 10 update list?

Run:

wmic qfe
or
wmic qfe list brief

in an admin cmd shell. The output is not sorted by date nor KB number.
You can redirect stdout into a file:

wmic qfe > c:\temp\KBlist.txt

When you view the file in, say, Notepad, you'll want to turn off line
wrap. Failed updates are not listed since obviously they didn't
install. Updates not using Component Based Servicing will not be listed
for the QFE (Quick Fix Engineering) class. To get those not in the QFE
list, use Powershell to query the WUA (Windows Update Agent) API, as
mentioned in:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70762060/difference-between-wua-iupdatesearcher-and-wmic-qfe

which mentions to run in Powershell (all in one command line):

(New-Object -ComObject Microsoft.Update.Session).CreateUpdateSearcher().Search('IsInstalled=1').Updates | Format-Table -AutoSize

Someone elsewhere mentioned using Get-WUHistory in Powershell, but in
Win10 22H2 x64 I get back an error of no such cmdlet. However:

Get-HotFix

still works in Powershell. Looks like it is a cmdlet to run:

get-wmiobject -class win32_quickfixengineering

Then there is BelArc Advisor. It outputs an HTML page that displays in
your default web browser. At the bottom of the page, click on the "See
all installed hotfixes" hyperlink. Print (Ctrl+P) the new web page;
however, in the free version, a watermark gets added to the printout.

At a command prompt, you can run:

systeminfo.exe

which includes a list of hotfixes. Redirect stdout to a file if you
want to keep the output.

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On Mon, 10/13/2025 8:25 AM, John C. wrote:

Do any of you know of a reliable way to print a complete text copy of
the Windows 10 update list?

TIA

PS This stumped Copilot even.

The Reliability Monitor seems to collect a good deal of info.

Ask CoPilot whether the Reliability Monitor data is available as text.

In this example, I did a Repair Install on this OS. I was
expecting, as a result, to see Windows Update activity happening
after doing this. And you can see some entries, as it patches up.

But this level of detail, is unlikely to be collected for
two years worth, and whatever "detail" log exists, would
have to be captured by you and stored each day, to not
lose that level of detail.

[Picture]

https://i.postimg.cc/7YHMTG9R/Example-Win10-Reliability-Monitor.gif

Paul

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