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Microsofts Warnung vor ablaufenden Secure‑Boot‑Zertifikaten ist kein bloßes Wartungsthema — sie betrifft die Grundlage dessen, wie moderne Windows‑PCs und viele Sicherheits‑Ökosysteme das System‑Startverhalten verifizieren. Microsoft hat dokumentiert, dass mehrere Microsoft‑ausgestellte...

Microsoft’s January update headache widened again this month: a restart-on-shutdown regression that began with the January 13, 2026 cumulative updates and was initially tied to System Guard Secure Launch on Windows 11 has now been confirmed to affect some Windows 10 systems with Virtual Secure...

Nvidia has acknowledged it’s investigating a wave of gaming problems that began appearing in Windows 11 after Microsoft’s January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109), with community reports describing black screens, visible artifacts in games, and measurable frame‑rate regressions on some...

I’ve noticed my Windows system takes much longer to start after automatic updates. I’ve checked startup apps, disabled some, but it still feels sluggish. What steps do you take first when boot performance drops unexpectedly?

Microsoft moved quickly to contain a damaging January 2026 update cycle that introduced multiple high‑impact regressions across Windows 11 branches, shipping targeted out‑of‑band (OOB) fixes within days and publicly committing engineering resources to a reliability‑first posture aimed at...

Microsoft has confirmed that the shutdown-and-hibernation regression triggered by January’s Patch Tuesday affects a broader set of enterprise-grade configurations than originally disclosed: an out-of-band fix addressed many Secure Launch cases, but systems using Virtual Secure Mode (VSM) remain...

Microsoft’s acknowledgement that Windows 11 needs repair is welcome — but the sequence of January 2026 updates that forced multiple emergency rollouts and left some systems unusable shows how fragile large-scale OS servicing can become when feature velocity outpaces validation. Background: why...

Microsoft was forced into a rare series of out‑of‑band emergency patches after January’s security rollup triggered system crashes, boot failures, and application regressions that left both home users and enterprises scrambling for fixes and workarounds. Background What happened, in plain terms...

Microsoft has confirmed that a chain of problematic Windows updates — a failed December roll‑back followed by the January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109) and its follow‑ups — has left a limited but serious subset of Windows 11 PCs unable to boot, often showing the classic...

Microsoft released its January cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5074109) on January 13, 2026 — and within days a series of serious regressions began surfacing, from brief black screens on some Nvidia-equipped machines to full startup failures that print UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME (Stop Code 0xED) and...

If your old dial‑up modem, fax‑modem, or legacy serial modem stopped working after this month's Windows 11 update, that's because Microsoft deliberately removed several in‑box modem drivers from the OS image—by design, not by accident. The January 13, 2026 cumulative update (KB5074109, OS Builds...

Microsoft has pushed a second emergency out‑of‑band Windows update in January to undo a string of regressions introduced by its Patch Tuesday rollup — and this one should be on your radar if you use cloud‑backed storage, Outlook PST files, or manage fleets of Windows 11 PCs. The out‑of‑band...

Microsoft’s January update cycle has turned into an industry-sized headache: after the regular Patch Tuesday rollup on January 13 introduced several regressions, Microsoft pushed an initial emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) fix and then — within eleven days — shipped a second OOB cumulative to repair...

Microsoft pushed a second unscheduled, out‑of‑band Windows 11 cumulative update in late January to stop a wave of Outlook crashes and application freezes that began after the platform’s January Patch Tuesday release — a fast, corrective response that restores cloud‑file I/O behavior for many...

Microsoft pushed out another out-of-band emergency update late this month to undo a painful regression that broke file I/O for cloud-backed locations — a bug that left Outlook hung, emails duplicated or missing, and administrators scrambling for fixes. Overview The sequence began with...

A routine Patch Tuesday release on January 13, 2026 has left a significant portion of classic Outlook users scrambling: the Windows 11 cumulative update KB5074109 and a separate Outlook Current Channel build have each introduced regressions that render parts of the traditional Outlook experience...

In a rare bit of good news for people who still want their Windows desktop to act like a local desktop, OneDrive’s Folder Backup (Known Folder Move) on Windows 11 has quietly gained a better undo flow — in some builds you can now stop folder backup and have OneDrive move your files back to the...

A routine January Patch Tuesday rollup (KB5074109) accidentally left parts of Microsoft’s classic Outlook experience unstable for a measurable number of users, triggering freezes, lingering OUTLOOK.EXE processes, lost Sent Items and a rapid sequence of follow‑up fixes and mitigations from...

Microsoft pushed a string of Windows updates over the weekend that try to clean up several regressions introduced by the January Patch Tuesday rollouts — and at the same time have started a phased, OS-driven refresh of Windows' Secure Boot certificates that will touch millions of devices ahead...

Microsoft has pushed an emergency follow-up to its January 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes after a wave of users reported Outlook crashes and other app instability when working with cloud‑synced files; the company’s out‑of‑band updates issued on January 24 (notably KB5078127 and companion packages for...