Show All Windows Updates Applied to a Computer

Purpose

Use the following to create a searchable list of all Windows Patches currently installed. This is useful when trying to identify if a specific patch is already installed.

Note: This log can be reliably used only to retrieve updates for Windows OS itself and its components (such as Windows Internet Explorer (IE) or Windows Server roles and features). This will not list updates for any non-inbox software (such as Microsoft Office or Exchange Server).

Steps

Note:This will create the hotfixes.txt file in the directory that Command Prompt is currently listed in.

1. OpenCommand Prompt.
2. Typewmic qfe list full /format:list > hotfixes.txt
3. Typestart notepad hotfixes.txt

UseCtrl + Fto search the exported list of installed patches.\