Microsoft warned prospects on Thursday that the Might 2024 non-security preview replace for Home windows 11 is inflicting taskbar crashes and glitches.
This month’s KB5037853 non-obligatory replace was launched on Thursday, and it fixes a number of File Explorer issues and 32 different points.
At present, at some point after this cumulative replace was rolled out, Redmond added a brand new recognized concern to the KB5037853 assist doc confirming that Home windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 customers may expertise taskbar points.
“After installing this update, you might face issues using the taskbar. You might notice the taskbar temporarily glitching, not responding, disappearing, and reappearing automatically,” the corporate stated.
“Additionally, this issue might be reflected in the Event Viewer with Application Error ‘Event ID 1000’ under Windows Logs, listing ‘Explorer.EXE’ as the ‘Faulting application name’ and ‘Taskbar.View.dll’ as the ‘Faulting module name’.”
Microsoft additionally launched the non-obligatory KB5037849 Preview cumulative replace for Home windows 10 22H2 yesterday. This replace is impacted by 4 recognized points, together with two long-time issues the place Copilot is inflicting icons to leap between shows and never being supported when utilizing a vertical taskbar.
The opposite two are Microsoft Linked Cache (MCC) node discovery being damaged when utilizing DHCP Possibility 235, and Home windows customers seeing 0x80070520 errors when attempting to vary their accounts’ profile footage.
Taskbar points mounted through Identified Situation Rollback
Microsoft already addressed the taskbar crashes triggered by the Might 2024 Home windows 11 preview replace utilizing Identified Situation Rollback (KIR) to undo the defective non-security updates delivered through Home windows Replace.
Whereas the repair might take as much as 24 hours to routinely propagate to client and non-managed enterprise gadgets, prospects can velocity up the deployment by restarting their Home windows gadgets.
To resolve this recognized concern on impacted Home windows enterprise-managed gadgets, Home windows admins should set up and configure a KIR Group Coverage, which may be downloaded from right here. After set up, the Group Coverage may be discovered underneath Laptop Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Home windows 11 22H2 KB5037853 240505_142035 Identified Situation Rollback.
To deploy the Identified Situation Rollback, you need to entry the Area coverage or the Native Laptop Coverage in your area controller through the Group Coverage Editor. From there, you possibly can choose the particular Home windows model you need to goal.
Detailed steering on deploying and configuring KIR Group Insurance policies may be discovered on Microsoft’s assist web site.
