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Rolling back an update

Rolling back an update

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Rolling back an update

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- [Instructor] It's rare but an update may occasionally make things worse. When that happens, you can roll it back and restore your PC to the way it was before the update. The first type of update to roll back is a Windows update. Press the windows and Instagram key combination to bring up the settings app. Choose Update and Security, and in the Windows Update category choose View update history, the update history list shows you recently installed updates. Windows patches are typically available on Tuesday nights, appearing on Wednesday. Most are installed automatically, but if you experience trouble you can remove an update. Choose Uninstall updates, odds are good that the bad update was recent, so sort the list by the column, Installed On. It should be sorted that way already. So here's the most recent update for this machine, it's an update for Microsoft Word 2016. Click on that item, and choose Uninstall to remove…

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