{"id":7562,"date":"2016-09-02T23:49:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2016-09-02T23:53:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T23:53:06","slug":"revert-windows-10-updates-by-going-back-to-previous-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/revert-windows-10-updates-by-going-back-to-previous-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Revert Windows 10 Updates by Going Back to Previous Build"},"content":{"rendered":"

Windows 10 keeps freezing after installing the Anniversary Update? Just upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and the login screen doesn’t accept your original password? If you face new issues with your PC’s hardware or software, you can roll back to a previous build of Windows. This tutorial will show you how to revert Windows 10 updates and go back to previous build from Windows 10 login screen.<\/p>\n

How to Revert Windows 10 Updates by Going Back to Previous Build?<\/strong><\/p>\n

From Windows 10 sign-in screen, click on the Power<\/strong> button at the bottom right. Hold down the SHIFT<\/strong> key and select the Restart<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n

\"windows-10-login\"<\/p>\n

When the blue Choose an option<\/strong> screen appears, click Troubleshoot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"troubleshoot\"<\/p>\n

At the Troubleshoot screen, click Advanced options<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"advanced-options\"<\/p>\n

Click Go back to the previous build<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"go-back-to-previous-build\"<\/p>\n

Select the Administrator account that you use and know the password of.<\/p>\n

\"choose-an-account\"<\/p>\n

Enter the password for the selected account and then click Continue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"enter-password-for-this-account\"<\/p>\n

Click on Go back to previous build<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"restore-previous-build\"<\/p>\n

The computer begins restoring your previous build of Windows. The roll-back process can take as short as a few minutes to about half an hour depending on the speed of your computer.<\/p>\n

\"roll-back-to-previous-build\"<\/p>\n

When it’s done, you can check the build number of Windows<\/a> by pressing the Windows key + R and typing winver<\/strong> in the Run box. In my example, the build number changed from 10.0.14393 to 10.0.10240.<\/p>\n

\"windows-build-number\"<\/p>\n

Note that once rolled back, you might have to reinstall some apps, and some of the settings may also be lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Windows 10 keeps freezing after installing the Anniversary Update? Just upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and the login screen doesn’t accept your original password? If you face new issues with your PC’s hardware or software, you can roll back to a previous build of Windows. This tutorial will show you how to revert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[2912,2911,2914,2913],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-revert-windows-10-update","tag-windows-10-go-back-to-previous-build","tag-windows-10-rollback-to-previous-build","tag-windows-10-rollback-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7575,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}