Windows 11’s recent servicing cycle has slipped from irritating bugs into operational risk: critical shell components fail to initialize, recovery environments lose input, developer localhost servers break, and a steady stream of cumulative updates has forced administrators and home users into...
Microsoft’s October 2025 cumulative security update for Windows 11 — KB5066835 — is rolling out now, shipping important security fixes plus a modest set of user-facing improvements (including a new lightweight terminal editor “Edit,” File Explorer “AI Actions,” multi‑monitor Notification Center...
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A wide-ranging October 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5066835), and at least one related preview package, has broken many local IIS-hosted sites and developer workflows — causing ERR_CONNECTION_RESET, ERR_HTTP2_PROTOCOL_ERROR and outright failure of localhost-based services for...
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...
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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...
Microsoft’s commitment to refining and supporting both Windows 10 and Windows 11 continues to take center stage, as seen by the latest incremental updates deployed in the Release Preview Channel for Windows Insiders. While these newest cumulative updates—Windows 10 Build 19045.6159 (KB5062649)...
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...
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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...
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