Update History Incomplete

Question

I have been trying to update my Windows 10 laptop in my office and verify it has the latest Quality Update that addresses Meltdown/Spectre.

Initially it was failing to get various Quality updates (including one back in Fall of 2017 and the 1/3/18 one I needed).

But after some work by my IT folks, I think it _may_ have been fixed.

But I cannot reliably verify that for the following reason:

It just installed a "Feature Update" today (1/13/18). Now, checking View Installed Update History in Settings>Windows Update only shows that one entry - so I cannot tell if the associated 1/3/18 Quality Update was previously installed. It claims there are no new updates, but my another machine I have been working on would say the same thing when it did NOT yet have the needed 1/3/18 quality update that addresses Meltdown/Spectre (IT and I believe that was due to the virus protection program problem for those updates, which they have since fixed for me and that other machine properly shows me all the recent updates).

Anyway - how can I reliably confirm that the 1/3/18 Quality update that addresses Metldown/Spectre is installed?  I do not trust the "everything's up to date" response from CheckForUpdates for the reasons above. 

Thanks

P.S.  Is there a way to disable the deletion of update history? (a thread I read here suggested that occurs after a Feature update).

Answer 1

Thanks for the quick reply and sorry for the late response.

Unfortunately my machines have said that there were no new updates available, when there were important ones that it had (apparently) not done (according to its history listing). Please see original question again and the discussion threads about virus protection program compatibility issue preventing updates from occurring (e.g. kb4056892). My experience suggests that's what may have occurred, since it got the update I was seeking after our IT folks worked on it. However, I confess I don't have sufficient visibility into all of this. [For the record, that was on of my Win 7 desktop machine.]

Interestingly my Win 10 home machine just did the Feature update yesterday and it still shows the Quality update history including the Jan 1, 2018 release installed on 1/3/18. Perhaps it is running a different flavor of Windows 10 and the one I was seeking is not applicable to the work laptop. 

I will follow your advice and assume the updates are stable now.  (Just saw a new quality one come in today :-)

Answer 2

Hello,

Whatever you see in the report in your update list is reliable. With regard to the deletion of the update in the update history, there is no way that we can disable it. The reason behind it is because we want to make sure that once a new update is installed the old update will be replaced.

Let us know if there’s anything else we can help you with.