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Show latest Windows patches installed

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Show latest Windows patches installed

Lists the latest Windows patches with their KB ID and date of installation.

Command / script 
Get-HotFix |
    Sort-Object InstalledOn -Descending |
    Select-Object -First 20 HotFixID, Description, InstalledOn, InstalledBy |
    Format-Table -AutoSize

When should you use it?

Useful for confirming that a computer received a patch or correlating an incident with a recent update.

What the script does

  • Get-HotFix reads updates reported by Windows.
  • The list is sorted from newest to oldest.

Precautions

  • Some modern Windows updates are not exposed through Get-HotFix.

Rollback

No changes are made.

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