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    Windows 11 KB5063878 NDI Stuttering: Fix by Changing NDI Transport

    Microsoft has confirmed that the August cumulative security update for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) is causing severe stuttering, lag, and choppy audio/video when using NDI-based streaming flows — an issue that hits production tools such as OBS and NDI Tools and has forced...
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    Secure Boot Certificate Rollout for Windows: 2011 to 2023 CA Transition

    Microsoft’s guidance on Secure Boot key creation and management is an urgent operational playbook for every Windows administrator: a coordinated certificate rollover is underway that replaces legacy 2011 UEFI/CA trust anchors with new 2023 CA families, and failure to prepare — especially on...
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    Windows Secure Boot CA Rollovers: Plan Firmware-OS Updates Now

    Microsoft’s guidance on Windows Secure Boot key creation and management is a clear signal: organizations and advanced users must prepare now for a multi-year certificate rollover that touches firmware, OS variables, and update pipelines — and that preparation requires coordinated firmware...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Patch Tuesday: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes

    A wave of reproducible reports and a parallel burst of misinformation have combined to create one of the more consequential Patch Tuesday headaches in recent memory: Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked to SSDs disappearing under sustained, heavy...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Upgrading to Windows 11 for Campus Devices

    The University of Manchester is telling staff and students to arrange their Windows 11 upgrade as soon as possible because Microsoft will end support for Windows 10 on 14 October 2025, and continuing to run an unsupported OS will expose campus machines to increased cyber risk. Background /...
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    Windows August 2025 Updates: Recovery Failures, WSUS Errors, and SSD Issues

    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...
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    August 2025 Windows Patch: Reset Failures and SSD Issues Trigger OOB Fixes

    Microsoft’s August patch cycle went from routine to risky in under a week: an August 12 cumulative rollup introduced a servicing regression that could cause the built‑in Reset and cloud recovery flows to fail, and community reports of SSDs becoming inaccessible under heavy write workloads added...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 SSD Regression: Heavy Writes Cause Drives to Disappear

    Microsoft and SSD vendors have opened a coordinated investigation after multiple independent testers and users reported that the August Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can, in rare but reproducible cases, cause some SSDs to stop responding or “vanish” during...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes, Data Risk

    Microsoft and SSD vendors have opened an investigation after multiple independent testers and users reported that the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause some NVMe and SATA drives to stop responding, vanish from the operating system, and — in a...
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    Microsoft Issues OOB Fix for Windows Reset/Recovery After August 2025 Patch Tuesday

    Microsoft has issued an emergency out‑of‑band update to repair a high‑impact regression introduced by the August Patch Tuesday rollup that left Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools unable to complete on many client devices. id‑August Microsoft shipped its regular Patch Tuesday cumulative...
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    August 2025 Patch Tuesday Breaks Windows Recovery; Microsoft Issues OOB Fixes

    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...
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    Windows 11 KB5066189: OOB Fix for Reset/Cloud Recovery & Secure Boot Expirations

    Microsoft released an out‑of‑band update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) — to fix a high‑impact regression introduced earlier in the August security rollup that broke Reset and cloud recovery flows, while reiterating a separate, platform‑level...
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    KB5066189: Out-of-Band Windows 11 SSU and Reset/Recovery Fix

    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...
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    KB5066189: Windows 11 OOB Fix for Reset/Recovery and SSU+LCU

    Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) non‑security update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 (OS Builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771) — to repair a regression introduced by August’s cumulative updates that can block device reset and recovery operations, and to deliver a servicing stack...
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    August 2025 Patch Tuesday Breaks Windows Recovery Paths: Admin Guide

    Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday has left a wake of confusion and real operational pain for many Windows users after Redmond acknowledged that its security rollup unintentionally disabled critical recovery paths on a swath of older client builds — a regression that can prevent “Reset this...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers NVMe Drive Disappearances During Large Writes

    Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 cumulative update has been linked by multiple community tests and vendor advisories to a storage regression that, under specific conditions, can make some NVMe SSDs disappear during large sustained writes — risking data corruption or loss — and has reignited a...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 storage regression: NVMe disks vanish; Phison investigates

    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...
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    August 2025 Patch Tuesday breaks Windows recovery: Reset and cloud recovery fail

    Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday has introduced a serious operational regression: on several supported Windows branches the built‑in Reset and recovery workflows can fail outright after installing the August 12, 2025 security updates, leaving users unable to complete “Reset this PC,” the new...
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    KB5063878 Windows 11: Drives Vanish Under Heavy Writes—Pause Updates

    Microsoft’s August cumulative (KB5063878) is making some SSDs and HDDs vanish mid‑write, and a patchwork of community testing, vendor responses and cautious guidance now makes a compelling case for pausing non‑urgent Windows updates and treating large, continuous file transfers as high‑risk...
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    Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression Hits NVMe SSDs During Large Writes

    Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been linked by independent testers and several tech outlets to a reproducible storage regression that can render some NVMe SSDs temporarily or permanently inaccessible during sustained large writes, prompting...