This year marks a milestone for the operating system MicrosoftIn a few months more government support for that Windows 10This is aimed at forcing people to update to 11, which customers are definitely not liking. And that’s not the only problem, as complications have been reported with the current patch of the version they don’t want to say goodbye to anytime soon.
The most recent security update, marked as KB5048239This has created complications among users, who constantly report installation errors. According to support forums and sites like NeowinThe bug causes a loop where the system repeatedly tries to install the patch, even after it apparently completes successfully.
Behavior includes conflicting messages Windows Updatewhich indicates that the system has been “updated” after a failed attempt, only to restart the installation process on the next attempt. In some cases, no error message is displayed, but the system continues to try to install the same update indefinitely.
Updates, initially released as part of Patch Tuesday November 2024, aiming to improve the recovery environment for Windows (WinRE) automatically applies a secure OS dynamic setting (KB5046913). However, this is not the first time that Microsoft has faced problems with this patch. The company withdrew it last November due to similar failures.
The bug may be related to another one documented in early 2024, when installing updates to WinRE failed due to insufficient space on the system recovery partition. Although some users have managed to solve this problem by increasing the partition size, Microsoft Has not yet provided a formal solution or clear guidelines to address the new issues
As reports pile up again, the company is facing criticism for not fully fixing the issue before rolling out the update again. In the meantime, affected users will have to wait for an official response or explore manual solutions to prevent their systems from getting stuck in a frustrating installation loop. Furthermore, they don’t have much left to force change Windows 11.
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