Also notice that all the error codes are in the same column so it’s easy to identify which ones occur more frequently. First focus on the most frequently occurring error codes between the brackets then the least frequent.Under the Tool menu, you will find a filtering option. One other tool that can also be used for viewing Windows Update logs and filtering them is CMTrace, which is part of the Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager: Select-String -Path '*.log' -Pattern 'FAILED' -CaseSensitive > failures.txt This could be done in Powershell as in this example: Filter the log on “FAILED” (case-sensitive) and pipe/redirect those lines to a separate file.Given an example WU log, follow these steps to diagnose the issue: Use these instructions to troubleshoot Windows Update (WU) issues HRESULT Exception.