Check for Windows Updates command line tool

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Jason Vigus

A quick and dirty command to check for new important updates to be run at the command prompt:
wuauclt.exe /detectnowÂ

Then check out the results in:
%windir%\Windowsupdate.log

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hansi on March 23, 2012 at 1:51 pm said:

i found the command line tool WuInstall (freeware: http://wuinstall.com).
with that you can search for certain updates and the output will be shown in the cmd.
for example the command “WuInstall /search /classification SC” searches for critical and security updates.
You can also download and install these updates with that tool.

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