{"id":40153,"date":"2026-04-29T01:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=40153"},"modified":"2026-04-29T01:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:40:16","slug":"windows-april-2026-update-is-causing-issues-with-macrium-reflection-and-backup-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/29\/windows-april-2026-update-is-causing-issues-with-macrium-reflection-and-backup-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows April 2026 Update is causing issues with Macrium Reflection and backup solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; float: left;\" title=\"Windows\" src=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Windows-klein.jpg\" alt=\"Windows\" width=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>The security update released for Windows 11 on April 14, 2026, has some undesirable side effects. Backups can no longer be mounted in Macrium Reflect 8 Free. I've also encountered this issue with other backup solutions like Acronis. The cause is that the April 2026 update blocks certain kernel drivers. Read details within my German <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/29\/windows-april-2026-update-macht-probleme-mit-macrium-reflection-und-backup-loesungen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> [use build-in translation to switch language].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security update released for Windows 11 on April 14, 2026, has some undesirable side effects. Backups can no longer be mounted in Macrium Reflect 8 Free. I've also encountered this issue with other backup solutions like Acronis. The cause &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2026\/04\/29\/windows-april-2026-update-is-causing-issues-with-macrium-reflection-and-backup-solutions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,1547,22,2],"tags":[571,47,2996,195,2643],"class_list":["post-40153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue","category-software","category-update","category-windows","tag-backup","tag-issue","tag-patchday-4-2026","tag-update","tag-windows-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40154,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40153\/revisions\/40154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}