If you wish to get a list of the installed updates on a Microsoft Windows
system from the command line, you can use the command
wmic qfe list. You will see something like the following as
output:
C:\Users\JDoe>wmic qfe list | more
Caption CSName Description FixC
omments HotFixID InstallDate InstalledBy InstalledOn Name Serv
icePackInEffect Status
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=133041 THELMA-LOU Update
KB2849697 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 12/11/2013
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=133041 THELMA-LOU Update
KB2849696 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 12/11/2013
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=133041 THELMA-LOU Update
KB2841134 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 12/11/2013
http://support.microsoft.com/ THELMA-LOU Update
KB2670838 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 2/27/2013
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=161784 THELMA-LOU Update
KB971033 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 11/3/2010
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2305420 THELMA-LOU Security Update
KB2305420 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 12/16/2010
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2393802 THELMA-LOU Security Update
KB2393802 NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM 2/10/2011
-- More --Since the list may be fairly long, you may want to redirect the output to a file. E.g.:
C:\Users\JDoe>wmic qfe list >installed_updates.txt C:\Users\JDoe>
Another alternative that will provide just the "KB" identifier for each
update is to use systeminfo | find ": KB". The list below
is the output from a Windows 7 Professional system [Version 6.1
(Build 7601: Service Pack 1) on February 27, 2015. As you can see the list is
fairly lengthy.
C:\Users\JDoe>systeminfo | find ": KB"
[01]: KB2849697
[02]: KB2849696
[03]: KB2841134
[04]: KB2670838
[05]: KB971033
[06]: KB2305420
[07]: KB2393802
[08]: KB2425227
[09]: KB2475792
[10]: KB2476490
[11]: KB2479628
[12]: KB2479943
[13]: KB2484033
[14]: KB2485376
[15]: KB2487426
[16]: KB2488113
[17]: KB2491683
[18]: KB2492386
[19]: KB2497640
[20]: KB2503658
[21]: KB2503665
[22]: KB2505438
[23]: KB2506014
[24]: KB2506212
[25]: KB2506223
[26]: KB2506928
[27]: KB2507618
[28]: KB2507938
[29]: KB2508272
[30]: KB2508429
[31]: KB2509553
[32]: KB2510531
[33]: KB2511250
[34]: KB2511455
[35]: KB2515325
[36]: KB2518869
[37]: KB2522422
[38]: KB2524375
[39]: KB2525694
[40]: KB2529073
[41]: KB2530548
[42]: KB2532531
[43]: KB2533552
[44]: KB2533623
[45]: KB2534366
[46]: KB2536275
[47]: KB2536276
[48]: KB2539635
[49]: KB2541014
[50]: KB2544893
[51]: KB2545698
[52]: KB2547666
[53]: KB2552343
[54]: KB2555917
[55]: KB2556532
[56]: KB2559049
[57]: KB2560656
[58]: KB2562937
[59]: KB2563227
[60]: KB2563894
[61]: KB2564958
[62]: KB2567053
[63]: KB2567680
[64]: KB2570791
[65]: KB2570947
[66]: KB2572077
[67]: KB2579686
[68]: KB2584146
[69]: KB2585542
[70]: KB2586448
[71]: KB2588516
[72]: KB2603229
[73]: KB2604115
[74]: KB2607576
[75]: KB2607712
[76]: KB2616676
[77]: KB2617657
[78]: KB2618444
[79]: KB2618451
[80]: KB2619339
[81]: KB2620704
[82]: KB2620712
[83]: KB2621440
[84]: KB2631813
[85]: KB2633873
[86]: KB2633952
[87]: KB2639308
[88]: KB2639417
[89]: KB2640148
[90]: KB2641653
[91]: KB2641690
[92]: KB2644615
[93]: KB2645640
[94]: KB2647518
[95]: KB2647753
[96]: KB2653956
[97]: KB2654428
[98]: KB2655992
[99]: KB2656356
[100]: KB2656373
[101]: KB2656411
[102]: KB2658846
[103]: KB2659262
[104]: KB2660075
[105]: KB2660465
[106]: KB2660649
[107]: KB2661254
[108]: KB2665364
[109]: KB2667402
[110]: KB2676562
[111]: KB2677070
[112]: KB2679255
[113]: KB2685811
[114]: KB2685813
[115]: KB2685939
[116]: KB2686831
[117]: KB2688338
[118]: KB2690533
[119]: KB2691442
[120]: KB2695962
[121]: KB2698365
[122]: KB2699779
[123]: KB2705219
[124]: KB2709162
[125]: KB2709630
[126]: KB2709715
[127]: KB2712808
[128]: KB2718523
[129]: KB2718704
[130]: KB2719857
[131]: KB2719985
[132]: KB2724197
[133]: KB2726535
[134]: KB2727528
[135]: KB2729094
[136]: KB2729452
[137]: KB2731771
[138]: KB2731847
[139]: KB2732059
[140]: KB2732487
[141]: KB2732500
[142]: KB2735855
[143]: KB2736233
[144]: KB2736422
[145]: KB2739159
[146]: KB2741355
[147]: KB2742599
[148]: KB2743555
[149]: KB2749655
[150]: KB2750841
[151]: KB2753842
[152]: KB2756822
[153]: KB2756921
[154]: KB2757638
[155]: KB2758857
[156]: KB2761217
[157]: KB2761226
[158]: KB2762895
[159]: KB2763523
[160]: KB2769369
[161]: KB2770660
[162]: KB2773072
[163]: KB2778344
[164]: KB2778930
[165]: KB2779030
[166]: KB2779562
[167]: KB2785220
[168]: KB2786081
[169]: KB2786400
[170]: KB2789645
[171]: KB2790113
[172]: KB2790655
[173]: KB2791765
[174]: KB2798162
[175]: KB2799494
[176]: KB2799926
[177]: KB2800095
[178]: KB2803821
[179]: KB2804579
[180]: KB2807986
[181]: KB2808679
[182]: KB2808735
[183]: KB2813170
[184]: KB2813347
[185]: KB2813430
[186]: KB2813956
[187]: KB2820197
[188]: KB2820331
[189]: KB2829361
[190]: KB2830290
[191]: KB2832414
[192]: KB2833946
[193]: KB2834140
[194]: KB2834886
[195]: KB2835361
[196]: KB2835364
[197]: KB2836502
[198]: KB2836942
[199]: KB2836943
[200]: KB2839894
[201]: KB2840149
[202]: KB2840631
[203]: KB2843630
[204]: KB2844286
[205]: KB2845187
[206]: KB2845690
[207]: KB2846960
[208]: KB2847077
[209]: KB2847311
[210]: KB2847927
[211]: KB2849470
[212]: KB2850851
[213]: KB2852386
[214]: KB2853952
[215]: KB2859537
[216]: KB2861191
[217]: KB2861698
[218]: KB2861855
[219]: KB2862152
[220]: KB2862330
[221]: KB2862335
[222]: KB2862966
[223]: KB2862973
[224]: KB2863058
[225]: KB2863240
[226]: KB2864058
[227]: KB2864202
[228]: KB2868038
[229]: KB2868116
[230]: KB2868623
[231]: KB2868626
[232]: KB2868725
[233]: KB2871997
[234]: KB2872339
[235]: KB2875783
[236]: KB2876284
[237]: KB2876315
[238]: KB2876331
[239]: KB2882822
[240]: KB2883150
[241]: KB2884256
[242]: KB2887069
[243]: KB2888049
[244]: KB2891804
[245]: KB2892074
C:\Users\JDoe>Though 245 are shown above, when I looked at the output of systeminfo
without filtering the output with the find command I saw
the following line immediately before the list of 245 KB numbers.
Hotfix(s): 366 Hotfix(s) Installed.Another option is to use the free WinUpdatesList (WUL) from NirSoft - see Checking Installed Updates with WinUpdatesList (WUL).
