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Does anyone know how to find out what Automatic Updates installed on a specific date? At the first of October my Win2003 SBS donwloaded some updates and I rebooted it. Now Access databases won't load and a major app that uses an Access backend hangs up the CPU at startup. I would like to see a log of what AU installed and when so I can try to correct the issue without reinstalling. Anybody got ideas?

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by rindi1

Set your Windows Folder Options to show hidden files. Now go to your Windows directory. There you'll have directories looking similar to $NTUninstallxxxxxxxxxxx$. These Directories are created by the windows updates so that you can uninstall them if necessary. The xxxxxxxxxx in the directories name points you to update name (eg KB835732). You now just need to have to look at the date these directories were created to get the info you need.

by bobho

You should be able to click on the Windows Update option on the start menu (of the pc in question) and go to the update site. You don't have to install any updates if there are some available. Look on the left-hand side menu under "Other Options". The first item should be "View Installation History". Click on that and you should get a view of every update that was installed, what date it was installed on and whether it was successful or not.

Mine went back to March of 2002.

Good luck.

RW

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