Microsoft has acknowledged a critical reliability problem introduced by its August 12, 2025 Windows security rollup that disabled core recovery features on multiple client builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11, and issued an out‑of‑band (OOB) cumulative update — KB5066189 — to resolve failed Reset...
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Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday delivered the usual mix of security fixes — and an unexpected operational headache: a servicing regression in the August 12, 2025 cumulative updates that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows on several supported client branches and, in some upgrade...
Ah, the monthly rendezvous with Windows updates, a love-hate relationship many of us know all too well. Picture this: you invest your time downloading the latest updates, only to find your system acting like a rebellious teenager afterward—unresponsive, buggy, or worse, entirely frozen...