Clear Windows Update History in Windows 10  

Brink said:

Thank you. I have updated the tutorial for this to make it easier to use.

I just had a specific case (in build 19041.264): automatically + manually installed updates in WU history.

The described method for Win10 2004 works perfectly, however Windows 10 makes a difference between automatically installed updates and manually installed updates. The latter will remain in the WU history; to clear them you will have to use the previous method ("1909 and below") in addition.

@Brink, I think it would make sense to mention this in the tutorial ...

Thank you.

Thank you @throkr.

I've updated the .bat for 2004+ to include this.

martobg10 said:

Hello,

Is it possible to clear only those who have failed? I want to keep only these which are "Successfully installed".

Hello Martin,

I'm afraid that with the way the database files are saved to for the update history, it's an all or none to clear.

Homer712 said:

For those of us who are preventing automatic (as in "forced") updates (I'm using Sledgehammer), would clearing the update history be as simple a creating a bat file with just the "DEL /F /S /Q /A %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\Logs\edb.log" portion of the above script?

Hello Homer,

The above script is basically what's already in the tutorial, but separated into separate command lines.

You wouldn't be able to use your command since it's required to stop the two processes first before being able to delete the log file, and then of course start the services again.

If you like, the tutorial in the first post provides a .bat file for this.

Homer712 said:

But with Sledgehammer having already turned off the windows Update Service, all I'm looking to do is delete the logs and NOT turn back on the Update Service.

In that case, that would work if using Windows 10 version 1909 and below.

If using Windows 10 2004 and above, you would also need to add this command in red below into the line.

DEL /F /S /Q /A %systemroot%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\Logs\edb.log" & del /f /q C:\ProgramData\USOPrivate\UpdateStore\*