View available updates

Windows Update service will check if any regular and optional updates are available. If one or more optional updates are available, the View optional updates link will appear. Click Check for updates so the Windows Update service will check to see if there are any available regular and optional updates. The View optional updates will show up when optional updates are available.

Step 1: Open the Settings page. Step 2: Click Check for updates. It takes a few minutes for the Windows Update service to check if there are any optional updates available for your Windows 10 version and build. You can see the View optional updates if optional updates are available. Note that if no optional updates are available, the Optional updates link does not appear.

Now, I think you have known what Optional Updates are and how to install them as well as why the View optional updates do not appear. It is important to make sure that your computer is receiving timely updates and is up to date with all the security and software updates released by Microsoft. You will find below the steps to check or view installed updates in Windows The main purpose of Windows Updates is to fix security bugs and enhance the performance of your computer. However, it is not uncommon to find computers developing problems and suffering from performance issues following a Windows update.

This can happen due to some of the device drivers becoming incompatible with the update and other reasons. In such cases, it becomes necessary to view installed updates on your computer and uninstall a particular update, in case the problem on your computer can be traced back to this update. Before when I used that, it would show a list of possible updates, whether recommended, important, or I think it said "Optional" for the others.

It would pop up updates on everything, even my Nvidia graphics card, which I liked because I could see what updates for everything I needed. Because I was actually just about to get all those updates for my Nvidia and stuff that it listed on there, and since it was through windows update I was trusting it more than say, going to a website and downloading what it said would be it, but windows update isnt showing it anymore.

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