How to View a List of All Installed Windows Updates

In today’s tutorial, I’m going to show you how to find a list of all Windows updates on your computer.

Viewing all Windows updates on your computer helps ensure security, stability, compatibility, and compliance with regulatory requirements. It enables you to stay informed about the status of your system's software components and take proactive measures to maintain a secure and well-functioning computing environment.

*To get started with finding all installed Windows updates:*
1. Go into the Windows start bar, and type in “Command Prompt”, and click on the command prompt application to open it up.
2. Now that the command prompt application is open, type in the following command “wmic qfe list brief”, and then hit enter on your keyboard.
3. A list of all installed Windows updates will now be displayed.
4. As you can see, my computer has many updates from Windows.
5. For each update, you can see the update’s description, hotfix ID, install date, and by who.

And it’s as easy as that, viewing a list of all installed Windows updates on your computer is a fairly simple task to perform.

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[mikebagg]

Excellent resource. Thanks. The new Windows 11 does not show all Win updates in the Add Remove Programs anymore, so this is helpful :)

[rasheednathagamingchannel]

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[getthemusicout]

Hi. To tidy up the output of this in W7 use the following steps ... (Sorry YT does not allow inclusion of any oline reference sources)

wmic qfe list brief > ProductList.csv

Then process the csv file in excel to smarten it up and make it usable.
01) Open Excel blank workbook
02) Data Tab
03) From Text (icon)
04) Navigate to and Select the csv file (ProductList.csv - or whatever you called yours)
05) Import
06) Delimited - Next
07) My data has headers - Yes - (The WMIC report file has a header line)
08) Tab - untick
09) Comma - tick
10) Next
11) Finish
12) save the file as an excel format file (not csv) to retain the tidy column formatting.
OK 🙂

Hope that helps. the weird command string insert fixes a bug in wmic that needs you to explicitly state the language pack.
No idea why but it does work to produce a useful csv file you can then clean up in MS excel.
A bit frustrating MS doesn't just make a decent reporting feature out of the windows updates console, and save us the hassle of mini-projects like this.
Maybe one day.