How (and why) to roll back Windows updates on your PC

Updates for newer Windows versions are often downloaded in the background and installed automatically on the next reboot. This is usually a good thing: The system remains up to date, security gaps are closed, or practical new features and functions are added — as was recently the case with Windows 11 24H2.

Sometimes, however, this is not a good thing at all: Sometimes the system fails to update, updates are only downloaded incompletely, or are even faulty from the outset. This was the...