A Weird Windows 11 Bug Won’t Let Some People Install Any Security Updates

Microsoft is informing users that immoderate manually made Windows 11 installer media could incorporated a bug wherever caller PC installs whitethorn not get early accusation updates. It affects USB and CD installers made pinch October and November merchandise patches, which whitethorn beryllium applicable to maestro users who group up PCs incorrect business aliases acquisition environments, aliases enthusiasts who precocious built their ain PCs.

Microsoft published nan bug successful its known issues page for Windows 11 (version 24H2):

When utilizing media to instal Windows 11, type 24H2, nan instrumentality mightiness enactment successful a authorities wherever it cannot judge further Windows accusation updates. This occurs only erstwhile nan media is created to spot nan October 2024, aliases November 2024, accusation updates arsenic information of nan installation (these updates were released betwixt October 8, 2024 and November 12, 2024).

This does not effect PCs that received nan October aliases November patches done Windows Update aliases nan Microsoft Update Catalog website.

Mitigating nan problem will require you to rebuild your Windows 11 media installers pinch nan December 2024 spot update included (released connected December 10th) and reinstall Windows. (To debar it altogether, Microsoft suggests that “that media utilized to instal Windows 11, type 24H2, includes nan December 2024 monthly accusation update.”) Microsoft says it’s moving connected a imperishable fix.

Bleeping Computer reported that Windows 11 24H2 too had different bugs successful tow, including problems pinch circumstantial audio devices, issues launching Outlook pinch an outdated Google Workspace Sync, and others. There was too that weird 24H2 compatibility rumor pinch immoderate Ubisoft games, which are slow receiving fixes.