Microsoft’s August 2025 security rollup hardened Windows Installer to close a privilege‑escalation hole, but the change has also begun prompting unexpected User Account Control (UAC) credential requests and breaking app installations for standard (non‑administrator) users across many Windows...
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Last month’s Windows 11 patch KB5063878 triggered a flurry of alarm among power users and IT pros after a narrow set of SSDs began disappearing under heavy write conditions — a regression serious enough that some users experienced irrecoverable data loss. This feature walks through a practical...
Microsoft has confirmed a new compatibility problem that emerged after the August 12, 2025 cumulative security updates: a Windows Installer hardening intended to close a privilege‑escalation hole (tracked as CVE‑2025‑50173) is now triggering unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts for...
Microsoft’s August cumulative update intended to close a Windows Installer privilege‑escalation hole instead tightened the User Account Control (UAC) rules so aggressively that standard (non‑administrator) users now see unexpected UAC prompts and, in many cases, cannot complete everyday app...
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 — shipped as KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946) on August 12, 2025 — has become the subject of two very different but intersecting headaches: an enterprise deployment regression that broke WSUS/SCCM installs (error 0x80240069) and a cluster of...
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Microsoft’s August security hardening that patched a Windows Installer flaw has closed a real attack vector — but it also introduced a compatibility headache that is prompting UAC credential prompts and outright failures in environments that rely on per‑user MSI repair and advertising flows. The...
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Microsoft has acknowledged a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 cumulative Windows updates that can cause unexpected User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompts and MSI Error 1730 failures for non‑administrator users when applications trigger Windows Installer (MSI)...
Microsoft has confirmed and mitigated a compatibility regression introduced by the August 12, 2025 security update KB5063878 that caused unexpected User Account Control (UAC) prompts and failed repairs for applications using Windows Installer (MSI), with the Windows Server 2025 release-health...
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Microsoft’s August cumulative update chain, notably KB5063878, introduced a hardening to Windows Installer that has forced a rethink of how User Account Control (UAC) and MSI "self‑repair" flows behave — and that hardening, while closing a real security gap (tracked as CVE‑2025‑50173), has also...
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Microsoft's August 2025 cumulative updates have produced a high‑profile compatibility regression that prevents many non‑administrator users from completing per‑user MSI installations and self‑repairs, prompting emergency mitigations from Microsoft and a wave of operational guidance for IT teams...
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Windows Security failing to open is a deceptively common problem that can leave a PC exposed and users unnerved — yet in almost every case the root causes and remedies are resolvable without a full reinstall. Symptoms range from a completely unresponsive Windows Security app to a blank or...
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative rollups have introduced a surprising compatibility regression: launching some MSI‑based applications — most notably AutoCAD family products, Firefox variants, and certain SAP installers — can now surface a User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt at first...
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A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...
Microsoft’s August security rollups have surfaced an unexpected compatibility regression that is blocking common per‑user MSI actions with a UAC elevation gate — and university computer labs are feeling the impact hardest, where standard student accounts now hit Error 1730 when the operating...
Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative updates introduced a serious regression that causes severe stuttering, lag, and choppy audio/video in NDI‑based streaming workflows on affected Windows 11 and Windows 10 builds — a defect tied to NDI’s default RUDP (Reliable UDP)...
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If uninstalling KB5063878 on Windows 11 throws the installer error code 0x800f0905, there are practical, verifiable steps that will usually get you past the failure — but the decision to remove the patch has to be weighed carefully because the August cumulative update in question has been tied...
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Microsoft has formally acknowledged that its August 12, 2025 cumulative security update is responsible for severe stuttering, lag and choppy audio/video in NDI-based workflows on affected Windows 11 and Windows 10 builds, and vendors and community engineers have published an immediate—but...
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The August 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has introduced an unexpected and painful wrinkle for live broadcasters: NDI-based streaming through OBS and other production tools can stutter, lag, and drop frames — even on healthy networks — and Microsoft has acknowledged the...
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Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can trigger a reproducible storage regression where some SSDs vanish from the operating system during sustained, large sequential writes — a...
A wave of reproducible reports and a parallel burst of misinformation have combined to create one of the more consequential Patch Tuesday headaches in recent memory: Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked to SSDs disappearing under sustained, heavy...