Windows Update Standalone Installer: Improvements in Windows OS

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Windows Update Standalone installer is a small utility that is used to install standalone updates. Standalone updates are updates that are not automatically bachelor at Windows Update in your Windows PC. These are special types of updates that are used or generated for a specific group of users; similar the Windows6.ane-KB977206-x86.msu update required to install Windows XP Manner on PC's which exercise not support Hardware Virtualization.

Windows Update Standalone Installer

The Windows Update Stand-lonely installer viz. wusa.exe was introduced with some new features and improvements.

The Windows Update Stand up-alone Installer (Wusa.exe) provides the post-obit improvements in Windows 10/8/7:

Uninstall back up: Prior to Windows 7, wusa.exe included install support simply. In Windows ten/8/7 wusa.exe includes uninstall back up so that administrators can uninstall updates from a control line. Users can uninstall an update past providing the path to the .msu file or by providing the package number (from the Microsoft Knowledge Base) of the update to be uninstalled.

one. Utilize the following control to uninstall an update by specifying the full path to the update:

wusa.exe /uninstall <Path>

ii. Use the following command to uninstall an update by specifying the update parcel number from the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:<KB Number>

Additional command-line parameters: New parameters are available in Windows 7 to enable logging, excerpt the contents of an .msu file, and control the restart behavior when an update is installed in quiet mode./log: This Switch is not available in before versions, Logging could only be enabled through tracing tools. This new parameter enables logging through the Wusa.exe tool./extract: Previously contents of .msu files could only be extracted by using the aggrandize.exe tool. This new parameter enables .msu files to exist extracted through the Wusa.exe tool./placidity: Supports the /norestart option just. At present The Switch functionality is extended to support the /forcerestart, /warnrestart, and /promptrestart options.
Extended error information. The Wusa.exe tool provides extended information in mistake scenarios for better diagnosis. [1] Update is already installed:1 (S_FALSE)0x240006 (WU_S_ALREADY_INSTALLED) [2] Update is not applicable:i (S_FALSE)0x80240017 (WU_E_NOT_APPLICABLE)
Note: An update was released to provide the error codes for Windows 7 on computers that are running Windows Vista. For more information about the update, run across KB949545.

Additional read at KB934307.

Related read: Windows Update Standalone Installer stuck on Searching for updates on this computer.

Nitin Agarwal is an MVP alumni and a Pro Blogger. He was awarded equally Most Valuable Professional for 3 times by Microsoft in Windows Expert - Consumer category. He is immensely inspired by Beak Gates, Steve Jobs and APJ Abdul Kalam.