How to remove hidden updates in Win 7 pro

I have some Windows updates hidden. (mainly drivers which I always get
and update myself from the providers home website). I do not let MS
install drivers for other manufactures equipment as it can cause too
much trouble.
Question is this --
How do I get rid of these hidden optional updates.
Four more have been added recently with these mysterious INTEL updates.
Just like to do some housekeeping.

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Maurice Helwig
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On 1/1/2017 9:02 PM, Maurice Helwig wrote:
I have some Windows updates hidden. (mainly drivers which I always get
and update myself from the providers home website). I do not let MS
install drivers for other manufactures equipment as it can cause too
much trouble.
Question is this --
How do I get rid of these hidden optional updates.
Four more have been added recently with these mysterious INTEL updates.
Just like to do some housekeeping.


You do not really have those updates unless you requested to download
them.

I have a large number of hidden updates that I never downloaded. For
them, all I have is a flag that indicates they are hidden. This means
that they no longer appear in Windows Update and thus will not download
or install.

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Maurice Helwig wrote:

I have some Windows updates hidden. (mainly drivers which I always get
and update myself from the providers home website). I do not let MS
install drivers for other manufactures equipment as it can cause too
much trouble.
Question is this --
How do I get rid of these hidden optional updates.
Four more have been added recently with these mysterious INTEL updates.
Just like to do some housekeeping.

If they are hidden in the WU client's list then they were not installed.
You can only hide updates in the list. You cannot delete them (which,
if you could, would mean they would show up as newly available when you
next ran the WU client). Hiding them keeps them hidden thereafter -
UNTIL Microsoft comes up with a newer version of the same update. When
you hide an update, you only hide THAT specific version of the update.
If a new version of the update becomes available, well, you aren't
hiding THAT specific new version so it appears in the available list.

On 2/01/2017 3:02 PM, Maurice Helwig wrote:
I have some Windows updates hidden. (mainly drivers which I always get
and update myself from the providers home website). I do not let MS
install drivers for other manufactures equipment as it can cause too
much trouble.
Question is this --
How do I get rid of these hidden optional updates.
Four more have been added recently with these mysterious INTEL updates.
Just like to do some housekeeping.

Thanks for the info. I know I have not downloaded them. I will have to
let them stay in the hidden list for now.

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Maurice Helwig
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On 02/01/2017 07:20, Maurice Helwig wrote:
On 2/01/2017 3:02 PM, Maurice Helwig wrote:
I have some Windows updates hidden. (mainly drivers which I always get
and update myself from the providers home website). I do not let MS
install drivers for other manufactures equipment as it can cause too
much trouble.
Question is this --
How do I get rid of these hidden optional updates.
Four more have been added recently with these mysterious INTEL updates.
Just like to do some housekeeping.

Thanks for the info. I know I have not downloaded them. I will have to
let them stay in the hidden list for now.


You must let them stay there forever.
They're not hidden unless they are in that list.

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