W11 Update Install Error - Hewlett-Packard - USB - 4/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - 1.0.0.237

Uninstalling this 1.0.0.237 is straightforward with Device Manager

Now it’s gone, and we are ready to get the updates again. But, a strange thing happens, Windows update gets an 17MB update instead of faulty 8MB one.

It installs ok, with no further error in Windows Update.

So, uninstalling a faulty driver does not solve the problem, the updates still remain in Windows Update list so I try to remove them. Since they do not have KBid I tried to use UpdateId, and to get it I used this script:

$session = [activator]::CreateInstance([type]::GetTypeFromProgID(“Microsoft.Update.Session”,$ComputerName))

$us = $session.CreateUpdateSearcher()

$qtd = $us.GetTotalHistoryCount()

$hot = $us.QueryHistory(0, $qtd)

foreach ($Upd in $hot) {

$OutPut = New-Object -Type PSObject -Prop @{

‘ComputerName’=$computername

‘UpdateDate’=$Upd.date

‘KB’=[regex]::match($Upd.Title,’KB(\d+)’)

‘UpdateTitle’=$Upd.title

‘UpdateDescription’=$Upd.Description

‘SupportUrl’=$Upd.SupportUrl

‘UpdateId’=$Upd.UpdateIdentity.UpdateId

‘RevisionNumber’=$Upd.UpdateIdentity.RevisionNumber

}

Write-Output $OutPut

}

You get output like this:

ComputerName      :

UpdateDate        : 3.10.2024. 14:17:58

RevisionNumber    : 1

SupportUrl        : http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

UpdateTitle       : Hewlett-Packard - USB - 4/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - 1.0.0.237

KB                :

UpdateDescription : Hewlett-Packard USB  driver update released in  April 2019

UpdateId          : c8f538e2-fb7a-4c43-a122-c2ca9390b3f2

ComputerName      :

UpdateDate        : 3.10.2024. 7:01:23

RevisionNumber    : 1

SupportUrl        : http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

UpdateTitle       : Hewlett-Packard - USB - 4/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - 1.0.0.237

KB                :

UpdateDescription : Hewlett-Packard USB  driver update released in  April 2019

UpdateId          : 4efe8a54-e7cd-4146-a2ff-86f34d9ca5ac

ComputerName      :

UpdateDate        : 3.10.2024. 7:01:23

RevisionNumber    : 1

SupportUrl        : http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=hub

UpdateTitle       : Hewlett-Packard - USB - 4/8/2019 12:00:00 AM - 1.0.0.237

KB                :

UpdateDescription : Hewlett-Packard USB  driver update released in  April 2019

UpdateId          : 45c8e9e6-cea0-4a02-8959-9ea5fef85a22

Collect all unique UpdateIDs for the 1.0.0.237:

c8f538e2-fb7a-4c43-a122-c2ca9390b3f2

4efe8a54-e7cd-4146-a2ff-86f34d9ca5ac

45c8e9e6-cea0-4a02-8959-9ea5fef85a22

And tried to remove them with:

Remove-WindowsUpdate -UpdateID "4efe8a54-e7cd-4146-a2ff-86f34d9ca5ac"...

No luck.

In conclusion, this is a Microsoft’s problem, inability to remove update package without KB id should be possible. Until then hiding is the only option.

This update was created for me on my Lenovo laptop and it is neither downloaded nor deleted, what should I do?

The USB driver IS INSTALLED! For some reason Windows believes the driver is NOT and I blame HP for making the driver or its registration done incorrectly. Oddly both Microsoft and HP are clueless to what should be an easy fix!

Hewlett-Packard - USB - 3/4/2019 12:00:00 AM - 48.2.4483.1963