Microsoft recently had to to acknowledge, that one of its “improvements” for Windows 10, released less than a month ago, actually breaks its operation on some machines. On affected machines with the ID KB5014666, it apparently creates clone entries with the suffix “Copy1” next to the originally installed printers – but at the same time prevents printing on the original units.
For those who have run into the error, Redmond has published a very complicated description, in which they tell you how to restore the ability to print for at least one of the virtual printers on the broken configurations. At the same time, the company says that it is also working on a fix, which hopefully will be able to eliminate the problem by itself, which may be important mainly for less experienced users.
Although this bug may only affect Windows 10 users, Windows 11 users also managed to install the company’s updates released late last month without problems. In fact, some of them – in addition to several other, smaller problems – may experience the start menu malfunction, in connection with the patch KB5014668, by Microsoft were announced according to
In addition, they can restore the operation of the important controller only by downloading the affected patch, or by waiting for the partial “rollback” patch released by Microsoft to be downloaded to their computer – but unfortunately there is no guarantee that this will arrive within a limited time, and the Start menu will not be available until then will open properly for them.
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