Did I imagine it or was there a Windows 10 update this morning?
Did I imagine it or was there a Windows 10 update this morning?
On 05/13/2026 6:20 AM, Jim the Geordie wrote:
Did I imagine it or was there a Windows 10 update this morning?
Windows 10 Pro ESU
-aKB 5087544 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 22H2 x64
-aKB 5088863 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5, 4.8, 4.81
-aKB 8900830 Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - v5.140
-aKB 2267602 Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Apparently, no update included in May for Windows Recovery. April's cumulative update was the last WinRE update for Windows 10 ESU.
*From:* Jim the Geordie <Jim@geordieland.com>
*Date:* Wed, 13 May 2026 11:20:57 +0100
Did I imagine it or was there a Windows 10 update this morning?
--
Jim the Geordie
This is a nonESU machine.
KB2267602 Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defender
KB890830 Windows malicious Software Removal Tool
KB5075039 2026-03 Windows Recovery Environment Update
Security Update KB5058526 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 5/14/2025 12:00:00 AM
The normal monthly update (if you're on the extended support channel)
Got the first two.
Apparently, no update included in May for Windows Recovery. April's cumulative update was the last WinRE update for Windows 10 ESU.
In article <10u2689$2pn5r$1@dont-email.me>, winstonmvp@gmail.com (....winston)
wrote:
Apparently, no update included in May for Windows Recovery. April'sI've just rebooted after the monthly update and I now have:
cumulative update was the last WinRE update for Windows 10 ESU.
2026-04 Windows Recovery Environment Update (KB5087371)
Successfully installed on 13/5/2026
plus the 2026-05 cumulative updates for W10 22H2 (kb5087544) and .Net Framework
(kb5088863) all in the Quality Updates section.
John K.Eason wrote:
The normal monthly update (if you're on the extended support channel)
The OP didn't mention if he's on ESU or not, but for those, like me, who
are not on ESU, we got a "fake update" today, which isn't a real update.
To see what's pending in the Windows-Update queue, I just ran this:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-WindowsUpdate
ComputerName Status KB Size Title
------------ ------ -- ---- -----
B ------- KB2267602 1GB Security Intelligence Update for Microsoft Defende...
B ------- 22KB Microsoft - Other hardware - Microsoft Wireless Ro...
B ------- 25KB Western Digital Technologies - WDC_SAM - 4.55.25.661
B ------- 1MB Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. - Net - 10.0....
B ------- 5MB SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd. - AndroidUsbDeviceC...
B ------- 5MB SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd. - USB - 2.21.0.0
B ------- 5MB SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd. - Modem - 2.21.0.0
That command won't work for most, unless they first install the PS
Windows Update module, which by design is not included by default.
Also, prior to use of that command a higher policy level is required
since the module is normally interpreted as originating from an
untrusted repository requiring either:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
or use of the
Set-PSRepository commandlet option
Your printout doesn't mean much with respect to Windows May 2026
cumulative update.
- it's only showing(as expected) the 'other' type of updates
Available driver updates(Windows Update/'View optional updates' and an available Defender update(one not yet installed, but available)
If your comment was intended to show 'what was installed' after updating with the May updates, you should have run:
Get-WUHistory
....and looked at the first group of lines from the output for what was installed in May 2026.
....winston wrote:Those aren't pending. They've been present as noted in 'Other updates'
That command won't work for most, unless they first install the PS
Windows Update module, which by design is not included by default.
Also, prior to use of that command a higher policy level is required
since the module is normally interpreted as originating from an
untrusted repository requiring either:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
or use of the
Set-PSRepository commandlet option
Your printout doesn't mean much with respect to Windows May 2026
cumulative update.
- it's only showing(as expected) the 'other' type of updates
Available driver updates(Windows Update/'View optional updates' and an
available Defender update(one not yet installed, but available)
If your comment was intended to show 'what was installed' after updating
with the May updates, you should have run:
Get-WUHistory
....and looked at the first group of lines from the output for what was
installed in May 2026.
Hi Winston,
Thank you for pointing out that I should have clarified that I'm using the PSWindowsUpdate module from the PowerShell Gallery, which, as you noted,
does require bypassing the default restricted execution policy (most often via Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned) before the environment will even load the module. I must have done that long ago and forgot that I had done it.
Thanks for helping out as the command would fail for others without that!
And the whole point of providing the command/results is to help others.
You're also right that Get-WindowsUpdate only shows the pending state.
My goal was to highlight that for those of us not on ESU, the queue is noticeably empty of actual OS patches, leaving only Windwows Defender definitions and OEM drivers as the typical non-ESU Windows updates.
To your point about verification, here is the output of Get-WUHistory.
As we both would have expected, it's a ghost town for cumulative updates:
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-WUHistory | Select-Object -First 10
ComputerName Operationname Result Date Title
------------ ------------- ------ ---- -----
E Installation Succeeded 5/14/2026 10:16:... Security Intelligence Update for...
E Installation Succeeded 5/13/2026 5:35:4... Windows Malicious Software Remov...
Despite Patch Tuesday having come and gone, the history is entirely
populated by KB2267602 (Security Intelligence) and the monthly MSRT. .
But OS security hardening has stopped for non-ESU boxes.
In summary, if it's not an ESU machine, then Patch Tuesday has
effectively become malware definition & driver Tuesday instead.
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