Deleting update history

[technerd]

Hi, further to my earlier post re. deleting update history, can anyone give me a definitive command to enter after I have stopped the service. I have used 2 differnt commands for this but neither have deleted the history. i'm guessing there are others. The commands to stop and restart the sevice work fine.

 

[Suzan878]

After stopping the Windows Update service, you can use the following command to delete the update history: del /q /f %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*. This clears the update cache. After running it, restart the Windows Update service

 

[GeraldMerald]

If the previous commands didn’t work, try rd /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution to remove the entire SoftwareDistribution folder and then restart the Windows Update service. This will clear the update history and reset the folder.