How can you force windows 10 to recheck for updates?

It tries to download an older insider build and i want it to find and download the newest one.

Open Settings app (WinKey/I) > Choose "Update & Security" > Click on "Check for updates".

Try3 said:

Windows update certainly used to get stuck with whatever its last Check for updates identified until those updates had been downloaded & installed. Repeating a Check for updates just returned the same list until then.

The easiest way to clear it to do a completely fresh search for updates was to use Windows Update - Reset - TenForums [the built-in Windows update troubleshooter sometimes cleared the queue and sometimes did not so I only ever use the TenForums tool now].

Denis

Thank you thank you thank you!
It did the trick and now i can recheck for updates!
By the way is restarting the computer really necessary after running that bat file?

There is actually very quick way of doing it. Just go to Settings > Windows Update > Advanced Options. From there, pause and "unpause" update. This will trick Windows to start checking for update, since that's what will happen whenever someone resume Windows update within 7 days: force the system to check for and install any updates available.

That used to work great on 1809, but sadly now, if you have set it to check for updates only without automatically installing and you then pause then unpause, if it finds an update it wont honour the GPO and just start downloading and installing, so it now seems to treat unpause as a install updates button.

However if you know there is no pending updates, then its still a good trick.