Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Latest Windows 10 KB3106932, KB3097877 and KB3105210 is Causing Issues
Two steps forward, one step back! Microsoft’s updates from patch Tuesday seem to be causing issues for some Windows 10 and Outlook users.
One of the patches in Microsoft’s monthly basket of updates is making the Outlook email client crash with HTML formatted messages.
The finger is being pointed at MS15-115, which also affects earlier versions of Windows, and is designed to protect against attack from malformed documents and embedded fonts in web pages.
That tallies with the crashes occurring with HTML messages, with a Microsoft rep saying:
“We are looking into reports from some customers who are experiencing difficulties with Outlook after installing Windows KB3097877. An immediate review is under way.”
For now, if you haven’t installed the latest raft of updates, hold off those patches. If you have, then try to avoid using Outlook, which may be rather problematic if you’re in a Microsoft-dominated business.
While you can turn off HTML formatting for sending messages in Outlook, there’s no clear way to prevent incoming messages from showing HTML content.
Start and search no longer working”
One of the users impacted by the problem explains it in detail:
“I use a Hp Notebook. Windows 10 upgrade not working since KB3106932 and KB3105210 were applied. I was able to uninstall the KB3105210 update; however, when I click the checkbox for the KB3106932 update, there is no ‘uninstall’... What?? Anyone know how to uninstall an update if no option shown? I had no issues before that update. When these 2 went on... my Microsoft Edge uninstalled and disappeared to start... then all kinds of other issues such as start and search not working, etc.”
Both the aforementioned updates are supposed to bring performance improvements on Windows 10, but as one can easily tell, the experience you get after deploying them can hardly be called “an improvement.”
On the other hand, not everyone seems to be affected by these bugs, so it’s pretty clear it isn’t a widespread behavior. Uninstalling the two updates and hiding them to prevent both from being reoffered is pretty much the easiest way to address the problems and stay on the safe side until revised versions or fixes are provided.
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