windows 11 24h2

Microsoft quietly confirmed what users have been asking for: Modern Standby in Windows 11 will stop allowing most background activity to forcibly wake a sleeping PC and draining its battery, because beginning with Windows 11, version 24H2 the OS now limits wake sources when excessive drain is...

Windows 11’s recent update cycle has once again exposed how fragile the hardware–software handshake can be: multiple user reports and vendor advisories show that changes in Windows 11’s Host Memory Buffer (HMB) negotiation and related storage behavior in version 24H2 triggered system instability...

On February 3, James Madison University’s IT organization will begin a campus-wide upgrade of endpoints running Windows 11 v23H2 to v24H2, a staged move that IT says will complete in two production phases and includes a short but unavoidable connectivity window during the install. The...

Users installing Windows 11’s 24H2 updates found their machines mysteriously “heavier” — an 8.63 GB Windows Update cache that resisted cleanup tools — while, in a very different arena, surgeons at Burjeel Medical City in Abu Dhabi executed a painstaking 10‑hour microsurgical replantation to save...

Microsoft is ending support for several Windows and Office releases in 2026, with the most notable retirements—Windows 11, version 24H2 (Home/Pro) and Office 2021—reaching end of servicing on October 13, 2026, while specialized editions such as Windows 11 SE and Enterprise/education variants of...

Windows 11’s latest major feature update has delivered headline changes and welcome feature work, but the rollout has also exposed a long, cross-cutting list of regressions that have landed on users and IT teams in unpredictable ways — from stubborn update caches and broken audio stacks to blue...

Microsoft's December cumulative updates have landed with a mixture of performance wins and operational headaches: the AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) is now set to Automatic in KB5072033 for Windows 11 24H2/25H2 and Windows Server 2025, a change that can increase memory and CPU activity on...

Microsoft’s 25H2 update for Windows 11 lands as a pragmatic, security‑first and AI‑infused refinement rather than a dramatic visual overhaul, but its real significance lies in how Microsoft rewired the platform: faster installs via an enablement package, deeper Copilot integration across core...

Microsoft has quietly confirmed a troubling, widespread regression affecting the Windows 11 shell after a July 2025 cumulative update, acknowledging that XAML component registration failures can prevent Start Menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and Settings from initializing correctly in certain...

Microsoft has published an advisory (KB5072911) describing a provisioning-time regression in Windows 11, version 24H2: after installing monthly cumulative updates released on or after July 2025 (the advisory calls out KB5062553 as a representative package), several shell and XAML-hosted...

For users who split their days between spreadsheets, photo edits, and late-night matches, the combination of AMD Ryzen processors and Windows 11 is increasingly being marketed — and verified — as the smarter way to play, create, and work, blending sustained battery life, on-device AI, and a set...

Microsoft has published KB5070186 — a Safe OS (WinRE) Dynamic Update for Windows 11, version 24H2 and 25H2, and Windows Server 2025 — dated November 11, 2025, that refreshes the Windows Recovery Environment used by Reset, Automatic Repair, and cloud reinstall flows; the package is available...

Why has MS now made it so irritating to create a System Image and Bootable Recovery USB ? The old Win7 Backup allowed creating both Boiotable Recovert and the System Image on an external drive, but 24H2 no longer allows same for Bootable Recovery "Disk" Now we have to download and use the Media...

AMD’s comments — surfaced in a recent interview — suggest the company is working with Microsoft to ensure Ryzen processors will be treated favorably as Windows hard‑requirements evolve, but the practical implications for OEMs, system builders and end users hinge on nuanced distinctions between...

Microsoft has quietly published KB5070349 — an Out‑of‑Box Experience (OOBE) update for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2 (and Windows Server 2025) — a targeted, installer‑time package that modifies the initial setup flow and the files that drive the first‑boot UI. Background OOBE updates are a...

Microsoft’s decision to flip automatic device encryption on by default in Windows 11 version 24H2 changed a quiet, optional security feature into a near‑ubiquitous behavior for modern Windows installs — and that change has already surprised, inconvenienced, and in a few cases resulted in data...

Hi Just rolling out KB5066835 across our W11 24H2 estate via SCCM, and have had some W11 devices apply the patch, but then the machine resets/wipes back to factory settings? Varying model etc - just says now rebooting after the patch has applied in Software Centre, then screen goes black, and...

Windows 11’s latest platform work has delivered one of the rarest kinds of performance upgrades: a meaningful, no-cost uplift for gamers simply by installing an OS update. Microsoft’s 24H2 release (and the backported preview patch KB5041587) unlocks better AMD Ryzen behavior in many titles by...

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday for Windows 11 quietly doubles as a moderate feature drop: alongside the expected security fixes, Microsoft is surfacing several new usability and AI-tethered features, a reorganization of Settings, deeper passkey support with third‑party providers, and a...

Microsoft has quietly pushed KB5068004 — a Windows Update component that installs NVIDIA TensorRT‑RTX Execution Provider version 1.8.14.0 onto qualifying Copilot+ RTX PCs running Windows 11, version 24H2, and it arrives as an automatic, system‑level update that requires the latest 24H2...