Microsoft has to communicate on a problem that is potentially frustrating, which affects the Windows PC of 10 people who have a printer connected via a USB port.
The problem is, that Windows key 10 version 1903 and the more recent versions, may occur when users connect a printer via USB and then stop Windows and disconnect or turn off the printer.
“When you restart Windows, the USB port of the printer will not be available in the list of printer ports. Windows will not be able to perform the tasks that require this port” said Microsoft. For now, Microsoft recommends that you connect a USB printer to be powered on before launching Windows to avoid this problem, but it plans to publish a Windows update that will fix the problem.
Reproduction of bug unlikely
Microsoft lists two of the main causes of the problem. “If the driver of the USB printer includes a Language Monitor, the callback function OpenPortEx will not be called. Therefore, the user cannot perform operations that depend on the operation of this monitor,” he explains.
In the control panel “Devices and printers”, then selecting the tab “print server Properties”, the printer port USB (such as “USB001″) does not appear in the list of printer ports. Therefore, the user cannot perform operations that are dependent on the existence of the port”.
These very specific conditions of reproduction of the bug to make it less likely that most users of Windows are familiar with the problem.
Month of June loaded for Microsoft
The month of June has been very busy for Microsoft as regards the treatment of the bugs. The June 2020 Patch Tuesday was the largest ever made, containing corrections for 129 vulnerabilities. The deployment of Windows 10 2004, has been hindered by several problems of incompatibility affecting the drivers from Intel, Nvidia and Realtek.
Earlier this week, Microsoft has also published a bug fix that prompted him to block the update to Windows 10 in 2004 to more devices Surface.
And it has confirmed that a bug in Windows 10 2004 caused the non-operation of external displays when users they drew in the Office applications.
Microsoft said yesterday that he was going to start gradually increase the availability of Windows 10 2004 to a greater number of users, but it seems to deploy with caution.
In addition, Microsoft widens the user group that will be entitled to the Windows Feature Experience Pack installed on their Windows machines, 10 2004. Curiously, Microsoft has not disclosed what is this pack, but he seems to have combined some of the features and basic applications so that they can be updated via the Microsoft Store at a faster rate than the updates via the Windows operating system.
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