{"id":32180,"date":"2023-11-02T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T10:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=32180"},"modified":"2023-12-06T15:09:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T14:09:29","slug":"windows-11-23h2-update-is-causing-issues-for-some-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2023\/11\/02\/windows-11-23h2-update-is-causing-issues-for-some-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 23H2 Update is causing issues for some users"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Windows\"[German<\/a>]Microsoft has released its Windows 11 23H2 Update (23H2) as of October 31, 2023. Interested consumers with compatible machines can pull the update to unlock the feature on a running Windows 11 22H2. Given the release date, I had jokingly dubbed it the \"Halloween Update\" (to be creeped out). Now the first users are chiming in with reports of problems Windows 11 23H2 is causing them. Is nothing that occurs widely, but is annoying for those affected. And Microsoft has \"admitted to a jumping icons problem\".<\/p>\n

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Windows 11 23H2 Update released<\/h2>\n

I had reported in the blog post Windows 11 2023 Update (23H2) released<\/a> about the new release. The new features have long been installed via update to Windows 11 22H2, but not enabled. Only the enablement update KB5027397<\/a> causes the unlocking. From this point of view, I didn't really expect anything dramatic in terms of bug reports from the user community. At least nothing compared to the previous Windows 10 feature updates, which had to be withdrawn after hours due to massive errors. But users are annoyed by installation errors and BlueScreens.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in my test environment in a virtual machine running Windows 11 22H2, an update search doesn't offer me anything from Enablement Update KB5027397<\/a>. German blog reader Tom had contacted me earlier today and wrote that Windows 11 23H2 cannot be installed on older hardware that was purchased more than two years ago. He suspects that it will go more and more like Apple, and Microsoft will pull back on special hardware that runs Windows. He also guesses that these will no longer be x86 machines, but ARM machines.<\/p>\n

A collection of issues<\/h2>\n

In the last few hours, some problems related to Windows 11 23H2 have already come to my attention.<\/p>\n

Surface Laptop 4 drops BSOD<\/p>\n

Tero Alhonen could not resist the temptation to update his Surface Laptop 4 – yes, that is from Microsoft – to Windows 11 23H2 via Windows Update. The compatibility check must have released the upgrade, and now the user is being maltreated with BlueScreens, as he writes in the following tweet.<\/p>\n

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His comment beforehand was that the Surface Laptop 4 was probably not among the first devices to receive the update.<\/p>\n

More reports about problems<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, at Windows Latest, there is this post<\/a> that gives an outline of various bug reports. Some users have the problem that the Enablement Update KB5027397<\/a> cannot be installed and the process ends with errors 0x800f081f, 0x8007007e, 0x8000ffff, 0x800f0984 and 0x80073701. On reddit.com, for example, there is this thread<\/a> where such installation errors are described.<\/p>\n

Neowin.net reports similar errors in this post<\/a> and also refers to Microsoft's Feedback Hub. The installation also freezes for some people. And they mentions, that some user sees a rollback of the update install – but the\u00a0rollback didn't work for some users. The article refers to this reddit.com post<\/a>, where somebody wrote \"It's in install, reboot, fail, rolling back, reboot, updating, failure, rollback loop right now.\" beschreibt.<\/p>\n

Windows Central writes in this article<\/a> that other users are running into performance issues while playing games after upgrading to version 23H2. Any of you experiencing problems with Windows 11 23H2?<\/p>\n

Explorer issues<\/h3>\n

In this comment<\/a>, a German blog reader complains that the Explorer bug described there still exists.<\/p>\n

Addendum:<\/strong> Peter has reported in this German comment<\/a> that Explorer is on strike. As I understand the comment, Explorer starts, the display goes black, then the desktop comes up, but no Explorer window is visible. Could be an incompatible shell extension or a graphics driver problem.<\/p>\n

Jumping icons confirmed by Microsoft<\/h2>\n

Microsoft has confirmed<\/a> an unsightly bug in the \"Known Issues\" for update KB5031455 that can occur with multi-monitor operation. Microsoft writes that systems using more than one monitor may experience problems with desktop icons unexpectedly shifting between monitors or other icon alignment issues. This only occurs when users try to use the preview of Copilot in Windows 11 23H2 (should not affect European users, since Copilot is not enabled there).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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