If you’re a gamer, you may have heard about the recent Windows update that would wipe and then brick SSDs on a computer if too much data was moved on or off of it at once, an update whose code ended with 3878 and launched in August. Windows has since patched that – but what do you do if you have a problematic update preventing you from using your device, and the next Windows patch is too far away for you to wait?
Uninstall it!
First, go to your Windows Device’s settings menu. You should be able to search for the Updates panel at this point, but in case you cannot, go to the bottom of the left-side panel, and it should be there. On the page titled “Windows Update”, you can then go to “Update History” on a Windows 11 device, where it will give you the option to uninstall uninstallable updates, meaning the ones most recently installed on your device. On my Business device, this opens a separate window with the seven most recent updates and their serial number in parentheses laid out for me to choose from, but on my personal devices, it doesn’t, and once I enter the ‘uninstall updates’ page, I can just pick which one to uninstall directly from there.
Windows will not always allow you to undo updates, and for good reason – the average OS is so incredibly complicated behind the scenes now that most updates don’t look like they do anything, when most of them have tweaks and patches designed to close vulnerabilities that viruses are found to use. Others fix gaps in code where unpredictable bugs happen, and make apps more stable for the end user. If you were to uninstall the patch that fixed an issue like the one caused by the 3878 update, that would be a problem!
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Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-uninstall-a-windows-update-c77b8f9b-e4dc-4e9f-a803-fdec12e59fb0
