A routine January Patch Tuesday update left a significant slice of Windows users temporarily unable to rely on core productivity workflows after the January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) introduced regressions that broke parts of classic Outlook and disrupted remote access for some...
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Microsoft has quietly published an operational workaround to repair a timing-related provisioning regression that can leave core Windows 11 shell surfaces — Start menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and Settings — non-functional after certain cumulative updates, and at the same time Microsoft pushed an...