wsl mirrored networking

  1. Windows 11 AppXSVC Now Starts Automatically: Performance Tradeoffs

    Microsoft’s December cumulative rollup for Windows 11, published as KB5072033, quietly changed a long‑standing service startup policy: the AppX Deployment Service (AppXSVC) — the background engine that handles Microsoft Store app installation and updates — is now configured to start...
  2. Windows 11 KB5072033 Fixes File Explorer Flash and WSL Mirrored VPN Issue

    Microsoft has acknowledged that the December 9, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5072033, OS Builds 26200.7462 and 26100.7462) addresses a number of quality and security issues — and also that a separate, related regression continues to affect a narrow but important set of users, notably...
  3. Windows 11 October 2025 Update Breaks WSL Mirrored Networking VPN

    Microsoft has confirmed that a Windows 11 update introduced in October 2025 can break VPN connectivity for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) when using mirrored networking, producing “No route to host” errors inside WSL even though the Windows host itself can still reach the same destinations...