Warning: You Only Have 10 Days
After all the long testing process, we have seen reports of bugs that are found in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. If you have just installed the latest version of Windows 10 and run into problems, you can simply uninstall it. Here is how to uninstall the May 2020 Update or any other major Windows 10 update.Microsoft allows you to uninstall a major update and also to “rollback” to your previous version of Windows 10 probably the November 2019 Update but you only have ten days after you installed the update to do that. After ten days, Windows 10 would automatically delete the old backup file to free the space. Microsoft expects that, if you notice problems, you will go back in the first ten days.
If you have chosen manually to “remove previous Windows installations” from your PC using a tool such as Disk Cleanup within the first ten days, you also can not rollback. The required files would have been deleted from your PC.
How to Remove the May 2020 Update From Within Windows 10
If you can use Windows 10 normally, you can uninstall the update from the Windows Settings application.
To find this option, go over to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. Under the “Go back to the previous version of Windows 10,” click on “Get started” and click through the wizard that comes up.
If you do not see this option here, you can not go back to your previous version of Windows 10 because those files have been deleted from your PC.
How to Remove the May 2020 Update From the Recovery Menu
If your computer is not booting and running normally or if it keeps "blue-screening" or just crashing while you are using it you can also uninstall the May 2020 Update from outside the Windows 10 by using the Recovery environment.
To access it, hold down the Shift key and click on the “Restart” option in Windows 10’s Start menu or on the Windows 10’s Start screen. If your PC can not boot Windows normally, it should also automatically offer to load the Recovery environment.
You can also try to boot your PC from a USB recovery drive to access this recovery menu.
From there, click “Troubleshoot” to see a list of troubleshooting options.
Click on the windows 10 “Advanced options” to see more options there.
The “Reset this PC” option here would reinstall Windows completely; you can use it if you do not have the option to uninstall the update.
Click on “Uninstall Updates” to uninstall a recently installed update such as the Windows 10 May 2020 Update.
Click on the Windows 10 “Uninstall latest feature update” to delete the May 2020 Update from your system. Follow through the wizard.
Huge updates are considered as “feature updates,” while smaller security patches and bug fixes like the ones that come each month on Patch Tuesday are regarded as “quality updates.”
The process would involve providing a Windows user account password to continue. Follow the instructions that are on your screen to uninstall the update.
If You Can not Uninstall the Update
If you do not see the uninstall option, you can not simply uninstall the update and get your old system back. You can still choose to reinstall your Windows 10 or reset your PC and get a fresh new system.
Windows 10 would not remove any of your personal files if you reset your PC and tell it to keep them, but you will have to reinstall all the applications that you use after that.
