The recent patching saga involving Microsoft’s Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 versions highlights ongoing challenges in maintaining stability and reliability in one of the most crucial connectivity features: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Early in 2025, after Microsoft deployed a...
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Microsoft’s recent Windows 11 24H2 updates have sparked a wave of user frustrations and technical challenges, firmly continuing the company’s somewhat notorious legacy of problematic Windows patches. Two particular recent updates, the April cumulative update KB5055523 and the March preview...
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Microsoft's recent Windows 11 24H2 cumulative updates, particularly the April 2025 Patch Tuesday release KB5055523 and the March preview update KB5053656, have once again demonstrated the complexity and challenges inherent in maintaining a modern operating system. While these updates bring...
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Microsoft’s recent efforts to update Windows 11, particularly the 24H2 version, have been marked by a slew of challenging issues that have caused widespread frustration among users and IT professionals alike. While routine updates are expected to enhance stability, security, and functionality...
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Microsoft's recent April 2025 Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11—specifically update KB5055523—introduced an unexpected yet purposeful change that has stirred curiosity and concern among users and IT professionals alike: the mysterious creation of an empty folder named inetpub on the system...
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Woes and Workarounds: Microsoft’s Latest Windows 11 24H2 Update Blues
When Microsoft rolls out new Windows updates, there’s always a mix of excitement and apprehension among users, IT admins, and industry watchers. Each update promises new features, security improvements, and critical bug fixes...
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Microsoft’s April and March 2025 Windows 11 Updates Spark Widespread Blue Screen Chaos
Microsoft’s latest brush with controversy centers on two troublesome cumulative updates for Windows 11 24H2, both of which have incited a wave of blue screen crashes across an already frazzled IT ecosystem...
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Microsoft’s rocky 2025 software patching saga has drawn renewed scrutiny from IT administrators, enterprise customers, and power users, following another problematic Remote Desktop bug that left some Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2 users effectively locked out of their sessions. The...
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Good news rarely arrives with the pace or polish of a Windows Update, but for thousands of IT administrators and unlucky power users bewildered by stuck cursors and silent Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) sessions, salvation has finally arrived — and not a moment too soon.
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Windows users and IT professionals finally have some relief after weeks of remote access headaches. A persistent flaw that left Remote Desktop sessions freezing and unresponsive—a direct result of Microsoft’s own botched February Windows 11 24H2 and Server 2025 updates—has been patched. But this...
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Microsoft’s latest patch troubles have the IT community raising an eyebrow—and a few RDP session restart buttons. A recent advisory from the tech giant warns that a seemingly routine security update, KB5051987, released on February 11, 2025, has introduced an unexpected freeze issue on Windows...
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Rarely does a Tuesday bring as much excitement to the Windows Server world as a hastily deployed hotfix aimed at quashing yet another “unexpected feature” in Remote Desktop. But here we are, living that admin's dream—or nightmare, depending on how many servers you’ve had to swear at...
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It’s a universal truth in IT: every new Windows update comes with the thrilling chance your day might descend into digital chaos. And this April, Microsoft has delivered precisely the sort of plot twist that makes support desks weep and security teams clutch their coffee in silent panic. Yes...
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There’s an old IT joke that goes: “There are two types of sysadmins: those who dread the words ‘corporate update’ and those still on unpaid leave after the last one.” In April 2025, Windows 11’s 24H2 update—carrying the cryptic badge KB5055523—gave that joke fresh punchlines when it blindsided...
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Windows users worldwide braced themselves for the April Patch Tuesday with the usual mix of cautious optimism and a hearty dose of skepticism—never a dull moment in the realm of Microsoft updates. Yet, even by the company’s storied standards, the rollout of update KB5055523 for Windows 11 24H2...
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It was supposed to be just another patch Tuesday: a day when Windows users, the unsung heroes of mundane software maintenance, dutifully clicked “Install” and hoped for a quick reboot before returning to spreadsheets and late-night gaming. But in April 2024, Windows 11 users who let their...
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If your computer has ever frozen on a kaleidoscopic blue error screen, congratulations, you’re a member of a not-so-exclusive club: the Windows 11 Bad Update Victims Society. It’s a club whose meetings are frequent—if you check your calendar, there’s probably a “day with a ‘y’ in it” circled for...
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In recent months, Microsoft’s rollout of the Windows 11 24H2 update has been far from smooth sailing, sending waves of frustration across the user base due to a rash of Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) incidents and other critical issues. The latest updates, notably KB5055523 and KB5053656, have...
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For seasoned Windows users, Patch Tuesday is as rhythmic as the tides—a day to brace for updates, reboot prompts, and that vulnerable moment spent waiting for a spinning circle to reveal whether “all your files are exactly where you left them.” In April, however, this monthly ritual took a...
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In recent weeks, users of Windows 11 version 24H2 have encountered a troubling issue: the infamous Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) appearing after installing the KB5055523 April update or the KB5053656 March preview update. This error, identified by the code 0x18B indicating a SECURE_KERNEL_ERROR...
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