I had to recently do system restore and when I try to update to Windows 8.1 it says I need to download all updates even though I just did, please help...

Hello Justin, 

Please try the following steps and see if the issue still persists

1. Swipe in from the right side to view the charms, tap or click "Search", and then type "View Update History".

2. Tap or click "Settings", and then select "View update history".

3. Tap or click "Status" to sort by status, and then look for any updates that have a status of "Failed."

4. Tap-and-hold or right-click an update that has a status of "Failed," and then select "View Details". The window that opens displays the error code for that update.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/910339?wa=wsignin1.0

Hope this helps! 

Restore wipes out all the updates you have to do them again

Hi Justin,

Would you please share more details of the issue? What is the present system version you are using, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1?

I agree with ZigZag, performing a system restore will recover the machine to a previous point and the updates installed after the restore point will be removed. We need to check for updates again for the machine.

If you have manually checked for updats and restart the machine, the issue persists. We can check the update history for any failed updates. If all the updates won`t be installed. We can try the following tool to reset the Windows Update components.
How do I reset Windows Update components?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058

Best r