Microsoft’s Show or Hide Updates Troubleshooter allows hiding the specific updates from being automatically installed. For months, the Troubleshooter download on the Microsoft Download center was broken. Recently, Microsoft has confirmed it has intentionally removed the tool due to dropping SHA1 signing and has republished on download center after resigning with SHA-2 cert.
Download Show or Hide Updates Troubleshooter for Windows 11/10
If a Windows update or drive update is causing an issue on Windows 11 or Windows 10 devices, you can uninstall it.
To prevent Windows from reinstalling the problematic update when you check for updates, you can use Show or hide Troubleshooter to hide the update.
The tool download was broken for some time for now.
The issue has been brought to Microsoft’s attention.
“Why have all Microsoft download links for wushoworhide.diagcab has been broken for many months?”
This important Windows Update Troubleshooter is the recommended solution in many Windows support articles, but for some hidden reason Microsoft made it impossible to obtain.” a contributor asked.
Recently, the company revealed it was removed due to SHA1 deprecation and now they’ve re-signed with SHA-2 certification and republished it again.
“Thank you for all your patience. The Troubleshooter was initially removed as part of our SHA-1 depreciation, where we removed all content on the DLC which had only SHA-1 signing.”
“The troubleshooter has been re-signed with an SHA-2 cert and has been republished. ” Microsoft employee, Jason Leznek said in a follow-up reply yesterday.
You can now download tool without any issues from here. [Thanks to askwoody]
Final words:
Microsoft’s Show or Hide Updates Troubleshooter for Windows 11 and Windows 10 is now available for download after it was broken for some time. The company has republished to its Microsoft Download Center with SHA-2 signing.
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