How to identify direct URL for Windows Update driver

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With so many Windows Updates happening in the background you never actually know which webpage URL is a source of your PC's concluding driver update. Knowing direct URL's can be particularly useful if yous desire to have transmission control on driver updates or later a reboot of your PC.

Identify directly URL for Windows Update driver

Here is a method through which you lot can place a straight URL for a Windows Update driver in Windows ten/viii/7. This method involves the following steps as follows:

Stopping Windows update service
Cleaning upward the local Windows Update cache
Removing driver for a particular device
Restarting Windows update service
Installing latest available driver
Inspecting logs to identify straight URL

Pace 1: Stopping Windows Update service

Using admin command prompt, execute the control "cyberspace stop wuauserv". This volition cease the Windows Update service.

Step ii: Cleaning up the local Windows Update cache

To make clean up local Windows Update enshroud, use admin cmd, and execute the following commands, one afterward the other:

del /s /q %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\*.*

del /southward /q %windir%\Logs\Windows Update\*.etl

Step 3: Removing commuter from a particular device

This stride involves uninstalling a particular device commuter. Follow these steps,

Start – Device Manager
Open Display adapters
Right-click on the device
Click Uninstall.

At the prompt, ensure that "Delete the driver software for this device" is checked.
Click OK
Wait until the driver is uninstalled
On the Activity card click "scan for hardware changes."
The device now comes up with a Yellow-mark over it indicating a commuter could not be found. If an older driver was found and installed, you can uninstall that too and repeat until the only basic bulldoze is left.

Pace 4: Restarting Windows Update service

With the commuter successfully uninstalled, now restart Windows update service using admin cmd-prompt. Execute "net get-go wuauserv".

Footstep 5: Installing the latest available driver

Follow these steps to install the latest bachelor drivers for a device whose drivers were uninstalled in Step iii.

Commencement – Device Manager
Correct-click on the device and click "Update Commuter software."
Click "Search automatically for updated driver software."
Look for the commuter update to consummate

Step 6: Inspecting logs to place direct URL

To identify straight URL for a Windows Update driver you have to browse through logs in the Windows directory. Follow these steps:

Open Windows/ logs / WindowsUpdate

Open the .etl file in notepad (if at that place is more than one log, open the larger one)

Search for ". c a b" and find the last match in the file.

Remove spaces from the string to get the URL of the .cab file.

Remove the regional datacenter prefix "au.ds": Y'all will go for example the URL:

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/msdownload/update/commuter/drvs/ 2015/06/200005630_d9e19222b206b4dd6ed9813f790565c2638d0f75.cab

This is the straight download to your device commuter

Source: MSDN blogs.

Anand Khanse is the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, a 10-year Microsoft MVP (2006-sixteen) & a Windows Insider MVP. Please read the unabridged post & the comments showtime, create a System Restore Point before making any changes to your system & exist careful nearly whatsoever 3rd-party offers while installing freeware.