Windows 10 20H2

Windows 10 KB5004237 fails to patch performance issues, but a fix is coming
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/windows-10-21h2.835604/page-8#post-11108281

 

Nice to hear that since I have not updated.

 

Two months in a row with massive problems with security and reliability. No point in update... Windows July update breaks printing and scanning when using smart-cards
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...nd-announcements.826887/page-99#post-11108776

 

Here is a new one. But the Guinea pig patch. The whole OS is quite rotten with a lot of needed fixes.

July 29, 2021—KB5004296 (OS Builds 19041.1151, 19042.1151, and 19043.1151) Preview

Highlights of the updates heading out to versions 2004, 20H2, and 21H1:

• Updates an issue that prevents gaming services from opening certain games for desktop users.
• Updates an issue that prevents you from entering text using the Input Method Editor (IME). This might occur, for example, after startup if you have set the power options to shut down a laptop by closing its lid.
• Updates an issue that plays the sound for selecting something in a game loudly when you press the trigger button on a game controller.
• Updates an issue that prevents power plans and Game Mode from working as expected. This results in lower frame rates and reduced performance while gaming.
• Updates an issue that fails to detect that you are connected to the internet after you connect to a virtual private network (VPN).
• Updates an issue that causes printing to stop or prints the wrong output. This issue occurs when you print using a USB connection after updating to Windows 10, version 2004 or later.

Complete list of fixes, which is a fairly long one:

• Addresses an issue with searchindexer. After you sign out, searchindexer continues to hold handles to the per user search database in the profile path, “C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\\”. As a result, searchindexer stops working and duplicate profile names are created.
• Addresses an issue that prevents gaming services from opening certain games for desktop users.
• Addresses an issue that prevents you from entering text using the Input Method Editor (IME). This might occur, for example, after startup if you have set the power options to shut down a laptop by closing its lid.
• Changes the functionality for uploading new activity into Timeline. If you sync your activity history across your devices using your Microsoft account (MSA), you cannot upload new activity into the Timeline. You can still use Timeline and see your activity history (information about recent apps, websites, and files) on your local device. This does not affect Azure Active Directory (AAD) accounts. To view web history, Microsoft Edge and other browsers provide the option to view recent web activities. You can also view recently used files using Microsoft OneDrive and Microsoft Office.
• Addresses an issue that might cause the File Explorer window to lose focus when you are mapping a network drive.
• Addresses an issue that causes File Explorer to stop working after reaching 99% completion when you are deleting many files on a mapped network drive.
• Addresses a timing issue in the Group Policy Registry Telemetry that causes Group Policy extension processing to fail.
• Addresses an issue that repeatedly rebuilds the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP) filters. This issue occurs when a device is enrolled in a mobile device management (MDM) service and “MDMWinsOverGP” is set.
• Addresses an issue with an MDM service that fails to correctly apply certain junk mail rules.
• Addresses an issue that always reports the update build revision (UBR) as zero (0) on a device during enrollment to an MDM service.
• Addresses an issue that causes the enrollment of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) certificate to fail with the error, “0x80090027 NTE_INVALID_PARAMETER”. This issue occurs when the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) provider (the Microsoft Software Key Storage Provider) stores the key.
• Addresses an issue with auditing events 4624 and 5142 that display the wrong event template when Dutch is the display language.
• Addresses an issue that causes System Integrity to leak memory.
• Addresses an issue that plays the sound for selecting something in a game loudly when you press the trigger button on a game controller.
• Addresses an issue that prevents power plans and Game Mode from working as expected. This results in lower frame rates and reduced performance while gaming.
• Addresses an issue in which "Network Internal Access" appears on the taskbar network icon on systems that access the internet from certain domains.
• Addresses an issue in which the Network Connectivity Status Indicator (NCSI) fails to detect internet connectivity after you connect to a virtual private network (VPN).
• Addresses an issue that causes printing to stop or prints the wrong output. This issue occurs when you print using a USB connection after updating to Windows 10, version 2004 or later.
• Addresses a rare issue that might degrade performance in applications that call Gdiplus.dll!GdipMeasureString in a tight loop with a new font on each call. This issue occurs after installing Windows updates released on and after February 2021.
• Addresses an issue that incorrectly routes some audio channels when streaming using certain fixed channel layouts.
• Addresses an issue that always displays devices that RemoteFX USB redirects as "Remote Desktop Generic USB Device" instead of the actual device name.
• Addresses an issue in which Set-RDSessionCollectionConfiguration does not set the camerastoredirect:s:value custom property.
• Addresses a Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) domain controller memory leak that is reported in Privileged Access Management (PAM) deployments.
• Addresses an issue that prevents you from accessing a network drive that maps to a Distributed File System (DFS) root after you sign out.
• Addresses an issue that prevents you from reconnecting to mapped network drives after you sign in and displays an access denied error. This issue occurs if you use the net use /deep option to create multiple drive mappings to different paths on the same encrypted file share.
• Addresses an issue that prevents access to files on a Server Message Block (SMB) share when you enable Access Enabled Enumeration (ABE).
• Addresses an issue that prevents the Windows Server service from starting if SrvComment is greater than 128 characters.
• Addresses an issue in the Windows Network File System (NFS) client that might prevent you from renaming a file after mounting an NFS share. This issue occurs if you rename the file using File Explorer, but does not occur if you rename the file using command line.
• Addresses an issue with an unhandled Open File dialog critical exception. As a result, Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) applications might close unexpectedly.
• Adds a new policy that creates generic strings and removes branding-specific terms, such as “Windows” or “PC”, for IoT Enterprise editions. For example, we changed “computer” to “device”. Instead of "Getting Windows ready," we changed that to "Getting things ready" and so on. These generic strings display on a user’s screen when an update is in progress.
• Addresses an issue in which the Storage Sense page in Settings might incorrectly report the size of some storage devices that use the GUID Partition Table (GPT). The affected devices will incorrectly report in Storage Sense that the size is twice as large as the size reported in File Explorer.

Direct download link: KB5004296


July 29, 2021-KB5004331 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2, and Windows Server, version 20H2, and Windows Version 21H1

NDP48 CU:
http://download.windowsupdate.com/d..._c232f26ba7b9b1555e0ae5aa26e2f7109965761f.msu

 

Have you installed it yet? I think I will give it a week or two and then update.

 

I run Win 10 2019 Ent LTSC. I won’t touch newer Win 10 versions.

Maybe test it because of so called improvement in performance. Be sure you are able to roll-back. And wait a few days to see if people pops up and complain

 

Oh I didn't know you were on 1909.

 

2019 LTSC = 1809

 

KB5005033 [Manual download] August security update Windows 10 21H2, 21H1, 20H2 and 2004 1904x.1165

Another month has passed and the next patch day is coming up. The August security update KB 5005033 is now being distributed by Microsoft for Windows 10 21H2 (19044.1165), 21H1 (19043.1165), 20H2 (19042.1165) and 2004 (19041.1165). Included in the update....

And of course. New patch means new bugs... Windows 10 KB5005033 is causing new issues for some users
http://forum.notebookreview.com/thr...d-announcements.826887/page-100#post-11113607

 

KB5005565 [Manual Download] as security update September 2021 Windows 10 1904x.1237

Patchday September is announced and the security update for September 2021 will be rolled out with KB 5005565. The version number changes for the four versions to Windows 10 21H2 19044.1237, 21H1 19043.1237, 20H2 19042.1237 and 2004 19041.1237.

Manual download of KB5005565

• In some browsers, the update has to be downloaded by right-clicking "Save as", as Microsoft is still using http links.
• windows10.0-KB5005565-x64.msu

 

KB5005611 [manual download] as a non-security update Windows 10 1904x.1266

Microsoft has updated the non-security-relevant update KB 5005611 again and corrected other errors. This increases the version number to Windows 10 21H2 19044.1266, 21H1 19043.1266, 20H2 19042.1266 or 2004 19041.1266. It is now being made available to everyone as an optional update.

The highlights are:

• Fixes an issue that could cause the system clock to go wrong by one hour after a daylight saving time changeover.
• Corrects an issue that causes applications such as Microsoft Outlook to suddenly stop working during normal use.
• Fixes a problem with the Microsoft Outlook Add-in that prevents an answer from being entered.
• Fixed an issue where the message and interest icons would be blurry on certain screen resolutions.
• It fixes the issue of messages and interests showing up when you right click on the system tray even if you have disabled this feature on your device.
• Addresses an issue that could distort the sound recorded by Cortana and other voice assistants.
• Fixes an issue that could cause your device to stop working after a restart.
• Addresses an issue that prevents you from entering input for apps when the taskbar is not at the bottom of the screen.

Other resolved issues (selection)

• Addresses an issue that changes the current language of the device's user interface. This occurs during an unattended out-of-box experience (OOBE) scenario to install a language pack on a desktop.
• Addresses an issue that caused the DnsCache service to increase CPU usage to 100%. This results in the device no longer responding.
• Fixes an issue where NumLock status is not retained after restarting Quick Start.
• Fixes an issue with sharing a screen with Microsoft Teams. Protected content, such as For example, digital rights management (DRM) e-mails are displayed in black for the presenter but transparent for everyone else.
• Fixes an issue where drawing on the screen may not work with Windows Context :: UpdateRgnFromRects.
• Addresses an issue where the Update Build Revision (UBR) on a device is always reported as zero (0) while logging in to the Mobile Device Management (MDM) service.
• Removes the limit of a maximum of 25 traffic selectors in the Windows-native Internet Key Exchange (IKE) client and server.
• Fixes an issue where the smart card PIN dialog is not displayed when you are connected to a virtual private network (VPN). This problem occurs after upgrading to Windows 10 version 2004.
• Fixes a problem that causes a memory leak in lsass.exe if the pTokenPrivileges buffer is not released.
• Addresses an issue that could cause Windows to stop working when you deploy a code integrity policy with no user mode rules.
• Fixes an activation problem for the input application.
• Fixes a problem that causes LogonUI.exe to stop working because Direct Manipulation cannot be started.
• Fixes an issue that could cause a stop error after a restart.
• You can find all further corrections here: support.microsoft

Manual download of the (new) KB5005611

• Please right-click " Save as " or " Copy link address " and open it in a new tab. This is because modern browsers no longer open http links.
• windows10.0-kb5005611-x64.msu

September 30, 2021-KB5005539 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2, Windows Server, version 20H2, and Windows Version 21H1

NDP48;
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._ed8d788827279dcf8689fa6936bc0f2ba375783b.msu

 

KB5005716: Out of Box Experience update for Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2: October 4, 2021

Summary

This update improves the Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2 out-of-box experience (OOBE) by providing eligible devices the option to upgrade to Windows 11 as part of the OOBE process. If the upgrade to Windows 11 is chosen, the upgrade process will begin shortly after OOBE is completed. This update applies only to the Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2 OOBE process and will be available only when OOBE updates are installed.

This update applies to the following:

• Windows 10, version 2004 (Home and Professional only)
• Windows 10, version 20H2 (Home and Professional only)
• Windows 10, version 21H1 (Home and Professional only)
• Windows 10, version 21H2 (Home and Professional only)

How to get this update

Windows OOBE

This update is installed during the Windows 10 OOBE process if an Internet connection is available during the OOBE process.

Prerequisites

You must have one of the following updates or a later update installed to apply this update:

• For Windows 10, version 2004
  Recommended: November 10, 2020—KB4586781 (OS Build 19041.630)
  Optional: October 29, 2020—KB4580364 (OS Build 19041.610)
• For Windows 10, version 20H2
  No additional updates are required.
• For Windows 10, version 21H1
  No additional updates are required.
• For Windows 10, version 21H2
  No additional updates are required.

Restart information

You must restart the device after you apply this update.

Update replacement information

This update does not replace a previously released update.

 

October 12, 2021—KB5006670 (OS Builds 19041.1288, 19042.1288, and 19043.1288)

Prerequisite:
For Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) deployment or when installing the standalone package from Microsoft Update Catalog:

If your devices do not have the May 11, 2021 update ( KB5003173) or later LCU, you must install the special standalone August 10, 2021 SSU ( KB5005260).

Manual download of KB5006670

• Important: To download the update manually, right-click on the copy link and paste it into the address bar. Or right-click to save as.
• Windows10.0-kb5006670-x64.msu

October 12, 2021-KB5005539 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2, Windows Server, version 20H2, and Windows Version 21H1

NDP48
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._ed8d788827279dcf8689fa6936bc0f2ba375783b.msu

 

The usual

New Windows 10 KB5006670 update breaks network printing bleepingcomputer.com | October 15, 2021

Windows 10 users and administrators report widescale network printing issues after installing the KB5006670 cumulative update and other updates released this week.

 

KB5007186 [manual download] as a security update Windows 10 1904x.1348

Known issues for KB5007186

• For devices with Windows installations created from custom offline media or custom ISO images, Microsoft Edge Legacy may be removed by this update, but it will not be automatically replaced with the new Microsoft Edge. This issue only occurs when creating custom offline media or ISO images by slipstreaming this update into the image without first installing the stand-alone Servicing Stack Update (SSU) dated March 29, 2021 or later. As a workaround: see here
• After installing the June 21, 2021 update (KB5003690), some devices will not be able to install new updates, such as: B. Update from July 6, 2021 (KB5004945) or later updates. You will then receive the error message " PSFX_E_MATCHING_BINARY_MISSING ". As a workaround: see here
• After installing this update, connections to devices in an untrusted domain using Remote Desktop may fail to authenticate when using smart card authentication. You may get a message, “Your credentials were not working. The credentials used to connect to [device name] did not work. Please enter new login information. ”And“ The login attempt failed ”in red letters.
  • This problem is addressed with the Known Issue Rollback (KIR). Please note that it can take up to 24 hours for the solution to automatically roll out to unmanaged private devices and unmanaged corporate devices. Restarting your Windows device can help the solution to apply to your device faster.
• After installing this update, Windows print clients might experience the following errors when connecting to a remote printer shared on a Windows print server. See here for a possible workaround

Problems fixed by KB5007186

• This security update contains quality improvements.
• UI elements and graphics in some applications may not work as expected. - After installing KB5006670 or a later update, certain applications may experience unexpected results when rendering some elements of the user interface or displaying them within the application. This problem can occur with applications that use GDI + and set a pen object that is zero (0) wide on displays with high dots per inch (DPI) or resolution, or when the application uses scaling. This has been corrected

If your devices do not have the May 11, 2021 update (KB5003173) or later LCU, you must install the special standalone August 10, 2021 SSU (KB5005260).

Manual download of KB5007186

• If the download does not start in the current browser, then right-click save as or right-click copy the link and open it in a new tab.
• Windows10.0-KB5007186-amd64.msu

November 9, 2021-KB5006365 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2, and Windows Server, version 20H2, and Windows Version 21H1

NDP48
http://download.windowsupdate.com/d..._a78458584d144b4adc86e78905bef7adaac1a311.msu

 

Will wait couple of weeks before applying the updated. Last time PSFX error nuked two windows installation and had to do in-place upgrade.

 

Here's a new long disgusting list. The guinea pig patch is out.

November 22, 2021—KB5007253 (OS Builds 19041.1382, 19042.1382, 19043.1382, and 19044.1382) Preview

Highlights

• Updates an issue that that causes some variable fonts to display incorrectly.
  
  
• Updates an issue that might cause the 32-bit version of Microsoft Excel to stop working on certain devices when you export to PDF.
  
  
• Updates an issue that displays letters or characters at the wrong angle when you use the Meiryo UI font and other vertical fonts. These fonts are frequently used in Japan, China, or other countries in Asia.
  
  
• Updates an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working when using the Input Method Editor (IME) to insert elements.
  
  
• Updates an issue that causes the Settings page to unexpectedly close after you uninstall a font.
  
  
• Updates an issue that affects your ability to rename a file using folder view in File Explorer when you use the new Japanese IME.
  
  
• Updates an issue that turns off screen capture and recording functionalities on the Windows Game Bar after a service failure.
  
  
• Updates an issue that prevents the applications that you use often from appearing on the Start menu as they should.
  
  
• Updates an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working.

Improvements and fixes

his non-security update includes quality improvements. Key changes include:

• Addresses an issue that affects the opening of the SearchFilterHost.exe process.
  
• Addresses an issue that causessearchindexer.exe to keep handles to the per user search database in the path below after you sign out: “C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\<SID>\” As a result, searchindexer.exe stops working and duplicate profile names are created.
  
• Adds support for the cancellation of daylight savings time for the Republic of Fiji for 2021.
  
• Addresses an issue that prevents the enrollment status page (ESP) from displaying the error message or remediation options after a failure.
  
• Adds the –cd argument to wsl.exe to specify a Windows or Linux path as a starting directory for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
  
• Addresses an issue that fails to apply machine Group Policy objects automatically at startup or in the background to devices on a domain that have certain processors.
  
• Adds the option to configure an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) maximum transmission unit (MTU) that is less than 576 bytes on an interface.
  
• Addresses an issue that fails to provide an event description for the System Center - Operations Manager.
  
• Addresses an issue that incorrectly renders some variable fonts.
  
• Addresses an issue that might cause the 32-bit version of Microsoft Excel to stop working on devices that have certain processors when you export to PDF.
  
• Addresses an issue that displays glyphs at the wrong angle when you use the Meiryo UI font and other vertical fonts. These fonts are frequently used in Japan, China, or other countries in Asia.
  
• Enables onunload events to create pop-up windows in Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer mode
  
• Addresses an issue that affects predictive pre-rendering in Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer mode
  
• Addresses an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working.
  
• Addresses a known issue that causes error codes 0x000006e4, 0x0000007c, or 0x00000709 when connecting to a remote printer that is shared on a Windows print server.
  
• Addresses an issue that causes Internet Explorer to stop working when using the Input Method Editor (IME) to insert elements.
  
• Addresses an issue that causes the Settings page to unexpectedly close after you uninstall a font.
  
• Addresses an issue that affects the UI for renaming files when using folder view in File Explorer. The UI fails to properly handle inline composition when using the new Japanese IME.
  
• Addresses a memory leak in ctfmon.exe that occurs when you switch between different edit clients.
  
• Addresses an issue that turns off screen capture and recording functionalities on the Windows Game Bar because of a service failure.
  
• Addresses an issue that might cause the return value of GetCommandLineA() to be lowercase in some developer scenarios.
  
• Addresses an issue that might cause the decryption of a file that is on a remote server to fail. This issue occurs when using the Encrypted File System (EFS) on the remote server and the error message is, “ERROR_DECRYPTION_FAILED”.
  
• Addresses an issue that prevents you from enabling BitLocker on a thinly provisioned virtual machine (VM). The error is “A device attached to the system is not functioning” and the system logs, “STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL”.
  
• Addresses an issue that causes Windows Defender Application Control to incorrectly compare two file version numbers.
  
• Enables credentials for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) users in Quick Assist.
  
• Addresses an issue that sometimes prevents Quick Assist users from using full screen view after they start a remote assistance session.
  
• Addresses an issue that prevents the applications that you use often from appearing on the Start menu and prevents you from configuring them to appear on the Start menu using a Group Policy.
  
• Addresses an issue that causes the syncing of desktop settings to fail when you use the built-in User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) template.
  
• Addresses an issue that prevents Failover Clustering from updating Domain Name Server (DNS) records.
  
• Addresses an issue that prevents your device from starting up, and it becomes unresponsive because of licensing API calls.
  
• Addresses an issue that might affect devices that use Windows Hello for Business and are joined to Azure Active Directory (AD). These devices might experience issues when they access on-premises resources, such as file shares or websites.
  
• Addresses a known issue that might prevent apps, such as Kaspersky apps, from opening after you attempt to repair or update the apps using the Microsoft Installer (MSI).

If you installed earlier updates, only the new fixes contained in this package will be downloaded and installed on your device.


Windows 10 servicing stack update - 19041.1371, 19042.1371, 19043.1371, and 19044.1371

• This update makes quality improvements to the servicing stack, which is the component that installs Windows updates. Servicing stack updates (SSU) ensure that you have a robust and reliable servicing stack so that your devices can receive and install Microsoft updates.

Prerequisite:
For Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) deployment or when installing the standalone package from Microsoft Update Catalog:

If your devices do not have the May 11, 2021 update ( KB5003173) or later LCU, you must install the special standalone August 10, 2021 SSU ( KB5005260).

Manual download of KB5007253

KB5007401: Critical Dynamic Update for Windows 10, version 2004, 20H2, 21H1, and 21H2: November 22, 2021

Prerequisites:
There are no prerequisites to apply this update.

Critical DU for .NET35
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._f1bf61d834bb8d9951c7efa23454643daae195b0.cab


November 19 22, 2021-KB5007289 Cumulative Update Preview for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 2004, Windows Server, version 2004, Windows 10, version 20H2, Windows Server, version 20H2, and Windows Version 21H1

Preview NDP35-48
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._0cd072430731065201ff609c8df5208cc6e64cd2.msu

 

December 14, 2021—KB5008212 (OS Builds 19041.1415, 19042.1415, 19043.1415, and 19044.1415)

Prerequisite:
For Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) deployment or when installing the standalone package from Microsoft Update Catalog:

If your devices do not have the May 11, 2021 update ( KB5003173) or later LCU, you must install the special standalone August 10, 2021 SSU ( KB5005260).

CU (Cumulative Update) 19044.1415 — KB5008212

 

KB5009543 Windows 10 1904x.1466 [Manual Download] Security Patch January 2022

CU (Cumulative Update) OS Builds (OS Builds 19042.1466, 19043.1466, and 19044.1466) — KB5009543

January 11, 2022-KB5008876 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10, version 20H2, Windows Server, version 20H2, Windows 10 Version 21H1, and Windows 10 Version 21H2

NDP35-48
http://download.windowsupdate.com/c..._5a565d73e211e26a8bb51bc19a7689ac01eb4cad.msu