Microsoft has confirmed that its August 12, 2025 cumulative updates — most notably KB5063878 for Windows 11 (OS Build 26100.4946) and companion packages for Windows 10 and Windows Server — introduced a UAC-related regression that prevents many non‑administrator users from performing routine...
Mozilla's Nightly build of Firefox has tripped over an old Windows 10 quirk: users running pre‑1803 builds (for example, 1703, 1709 or some Enterprise LTSB/LTSC variants) reported an immediate failure to launch Firefox 143 Nightly with an error complaining that api-ms-win-core-console-11-2-0.dll...
Certain fonts which were formerly packaged in the Windows image are now downloaded from Features on Demand, resulting in a possible regression from Windows 8.1 that is by design. This article explains this feature change and effects and provides separate guidance for end users, OEMs and system...
app developers
character issues
design change
directwrite
east asian
end users
feature change
fonts
guidance
oems
regression
support
system administrators
text display
windows 10
Hi all! I recently installed Windows 8.
I noticed that at some point the media tags stopped displaying in Windows Explorer for media files such as mp3 and m4b. I am talking about such tags as "title" , "bitrate" and "length" for audio files, for example.
Previously this data always displayed...
audio files
audioshell
detailed view
dll registration
file properties
file sorting
help request
m4b
media tags
mp3
music collection
os issues
regression
sfc scan
shell extension
tag display
troubleshooting
user experience
windows 8
windows explorer