Uninstalling KB3020369

Question

I am using a brand new embedded system that runs Windows 7, and it has spontaneously installed the Update KB3020369.

I'd like to get rid of it as it is eating up precious disk space, but the standard procedures (via the control panel or the wusa command) do not work. You get the message 'Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3020369) is required by your computer and cannot be uninstalled'.

Do you have a solution ? (I found many posts on the topic on the Web but non was conclusive so far.)

Solution

You can't (officially) uninstall this update, because it is marked as permanent in its manifest file (metadata)

<package identifier="KB3020369" [...] permanence="permanent">

Microsoft does this for all servicing stack updates. You could remove this permanence entry, but I had issues in the past after removing older servicing stack updates. So don't try this.

What do you mean with eating up space? run TreeSizeFree to see which folder uses most space.

Comments

[Admin]

I tried to find this entry in a manifest file, to no avail.

[magicandre1981]

if you run the tool as admin, you may see that System Volume Information has growm. This is the location of the system restore points. So delete older ones: windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/…