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Windows 11’s New Cross‑Device Resume Arrives for Insiders: What KB5064093 Adds in the Dev and Beta Channels By WindowsForum News Desk Published: August 23, 2025 Summary Microsoft is rolling out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26200.5761 in the Dev Channel and 26120.5761 in the Beta Channel...

Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.5761 (KB5064093) to the Beta Channel for Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2, continuing a pattern of incremental, tightly staged updates that blend UI polish, targeted bug fixes, and guarded rollouts of AI-driven experiences...

Microsoft has confirmed that its August 2025 security updates can break NDI-based streaming on affected Windows PCs, producing severe stutter, dropped frames, and choppy audio/video when Network Device Interface (NDI) is used with its default Reliable UDP (RUDP) transport — a regression that...

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...

Windows 10 reaches its official end of support on October 14, 2025, which means millions of PCs will stop receiving free security updates, feature patches, and technical support — and that looming deadline forces a hard choice: upgrade to Windows 11, buy time with paid protections, migrate to a...

Microsoft has quietly pushed an out‑of‑band emergency update to repair a regression in its August update cycle that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery and reinstall tools — the very features users and IT teams rely on as a last resort to refresh, reimage, or wipe devices. The fixes (published as...

Microsoft has acknowledged an active investigation after multiple community researchers, test benches and SSD vendors reported that the Windows 11 August cumulative (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause certain SSDs to vanish from the operating system during sustained...

Microsoft quietly pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after an August security rollup left some Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete “Reset my PC,” cloud recovery, or MDM RemoteWipe operations — the fix is published as KB5066189 for Windows 11 (with companion OOB packages for...

Resetting a Windows 11 laptop is one of the most effective ways to cure persistent slowdowns, resolve software corruption, and prepare a device for resale — and the process is now flexible enough to preserve personal files, wipe everything, or fetch a fresh copy of Windows from the cloud. The...

Microsoft has temporarily paused the roll‑out of recent Windows updates after a cascade of high‑impact problems—including broken recovery tools, WSUS installation failures, and reports of storage devices becoming inaccessible—hit a subset of users and enterprise environments nationwide...

When a Windows PC that once booted and responded instantly starts stuttering, the instinctive answers are a fresh reinstall or a hardware upgrade — but sometimes the culprit is far less dramatic: background services quietly consuming CPU, disk I/O, or network bandwidth. A short, targeted change...

Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that the August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can trigger a storage regression that makes some SSDs disappear during sustained, large writes — a failure mode that, in a minority of reports...

Microsoft pushed emergency out‑of‑band updates on August 19, 2025, to repair a critical regression that prevented Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools from completing — a problem introduced by the August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday security rollup that caused attempted “Reset this PC” and cloud...

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday set off a chain reaction: the security update that fixed scores of vulnerabilities also broke Windows' own recovery tools for many users, and Microsoft was forced to ship out-of-band (OOB) emergency patches to undo the damage. The recovery failure — which could...

Microsoft has issued emergency out‑of‑band updates after a routine August Patch Tuesday rollup left built‑in recovery paths — including Reset this PC, the cloud‑based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — unable to complete on a range of consumer and enterprise...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update has sidelined one of Windows’ most important safety nets: Reset and recovery flows that let users refresh, reinstall, or remotely wipe machines now fail on multiple client builds after the Patch Tuesday rollup, and Microsoft has shipped emergency out‑of‑band...

Microsoft has quietly removed the long-standing, user-facing option to permanently switch off automatic app updates in the Microsoft Store for many consumer devices, replacing it with a pause-only model that forces automatic updates to resume after a short, fixed interval (commonly one through...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025—KB5066189—for Windows 11 devices on the 22621 and 22631 build families (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771). The package is an optional, non‑security rollup that patches a regression introduced by the August 2025 monthly updates...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) fix on August 19, 2025 that restores Windows’ Reset and cloud recovery workflows for devices on the 22621/22631 servicing families (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2) after an August security cumulative caused those flows to fail; the update, published as KB5066189...

Phison has confirmed it is investigating reports that Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (24H2) — distributed as KB5063878 — is associated with a storage regression that can make certain NVMe SSDs stop responding or disappear from Windows during large, sustained write operations...