Q: I would like to print my Windows Update History screen, but there is no option for this. I’m running Vista Ultimate.
The View update history option in the Windows Update applet in Windows Vista lists all the updates installed on the computer. However, there is no option provided to print or export the data. This post explains how to export the update history to a text file and print it.
EXPORTING THE WINDOWS UPDATE HISTORY
SysExporter utility from NirSoft allows you to grab the data stored in standard list-views, tree-views, list boxes, and combo boxes from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
To export the Windows Update History in Windows Vista, use these steps:
(Close all running applications before continuing.)
1. Click Start, All Programs, Windows Update
2. Click View update history
3. Download the freeware SysExporter tool and run it
4. In SysExporter, select the item named View update history (ListView)
5. In the lower pane, select all the entries CTRL + A
6. Right-click and choose Copy selected items (Tab delimited)
7. Open Notepad and press CTRL + V to paste the text from clipboard.
8. Save the Notepad document.
To view the contents in a readable format, start Microsoft Excel and open the saved text document (which is tab delimited). The document will be neatly aligned with column headers.
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