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ISSUE 21.22.1 • 2024-05-28 By Susan Bradley The May releases are once again a bit of a mixed bag, relatively quiet for consumers but a little bumpy fo
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I started the update about a half hour ago and I have been stuck here at this point for about 40 minutes or so. Is there any way to speed things up? I am using Windows 10 Home version 22H2.

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So, I did some research and I restarted my computer and came back to this.

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You just need to be patient.

cheers, Paul

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Yes, I am patient. But this update session was really trying my patience. Thankfully, they seemed to install. I just had to wait longer than I wanted it to. Though I did have to restart a couple of more times than I am used to. I guess I had a slow connection or large files to download. Everything seems to be working in good order now. I’ll just have to wait and see over the next few days.

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Is that a bikini babe photo I see in the background?

Asking for an estranged distant relative.

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Win11 home 22h2 laptop here, is it fully safe to upgrade to 23h2 or am I fine with waiting a bit longer? I don’t really use my laptop for much really besides gaming, so can I put off upgrading to 23h2 till a later date, obviously before October 2025, or should I just bite the preverbal bullet and go for it and hope nothing messes up?

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For what it’s worth, my update went smoothly.

But on my Windows 11 lock screen I am getting NHL factoids rather than NBA. I suppose Windows is clever enough to know that I’m in Canada but not clever enough to know that I’m as interested in hockey as the Patch Lady is in basketball.

Maybe that newfangled Recall AI will figure it out whilst looking over my shoulder?

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“Feature dribbling, not NBA dribbling.” Now that’s funny!

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Just finished installing May updates on my Windows 11 Pro 23H2 machine and everything appears to be still running properly.

I have yet to check if the May CU fixed that lingering issue from Explorer.exe throwing errors on shutdown on those systems with a xbox controller plugged in: the errors stopped after disabling the GameInput Service and I’m yet to test by re-enabling that service. Incidentally, the controller works just fine with the GameInput Service disabled, so I might just leave it disabled and forget about the whole problem.

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I’m intrigued by the background image in the first screenshot…

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I am one of those who never use Windows Update and instead wait for Susan to give the go-ahead and then manually download the recommended updates in the latest pdf Master Patch List and install those. This time the recommendation for Windows 10 versions 21H2/22H2 (I have 22H2) is to install the cumulative update KB5037768 and the .NET updates KB4038283 (parent), KB5037932 (3.5 and 4.8), or KB5037933 (3.5 and 4.8.1). However, the update catalog only shows those .NET updates as being applicable for Windows 10 version 1809 and there is no mention of either 21H2 or 22H2. Is the Master Patch List in error? Are there other new .NET updates available that are for 21H2 and 22H2?

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See the list here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/release-notes/2024/05-14-may-security-and-quality-rollup

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Thank you very much. Was not aware of that page.

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the correct one for WIN10 22H2 is KB5038285 not KB4038283, which was the one on Susan’s Master Patch list, but has been partially corrected.  It shows  KB5038285  for 22H2 and 21H2.  KB5038284 is for 21H2.

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We had multiple machines choking on KB5037771.

We had to image restore one machine and we have had to manually repair in person some other and others that got stuck in loops on this then uninstall telling us an issue has occurred.  hide this using BLOCKAPATCH. All the systems with issues were Windows 11 22H2 PRO.

I real mess for us this month.

None of these had anything to do with Entra ID.  We cannot find a pattern on these machines with failures that are affected and ones that are not.

Very Frustrating – I long for the good old days of testing before releasing patches.

 

 

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arbrich wrote:
We had multiple machines choking on KB5037771…
All the systems with issues were Windows 11 22H2 PRO.

arbrich wrote here:
We keep running into issues with 5037771…
Both Dell Optiplex SFF desktops. Both Windows 11 22H2.

arbrich wrote here:
This update fried one of our customers Dell Optiplex 7080.
2024-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5037771)

Since KB5037771 was released a couple of weeks ago, I’ve updated about a dozen Dell OptiPlex 5090 SFF desktops running Windows 11 22H2 Pro – updates have been successful so far, no issues… yet.

Sounds like you’ve had several boxes basically, well, bricked – obviously awful, but what is frequency you’re seeing wrt installed base being updated? (e.g., 3 of 30?, 4 of 400?, 5 of 5000?) Only Dell OptiPlex 7080s, or other manf/models too?

Have failures affected multiple customers, or just one customer? If single customer, anything unusual about IT environment, box config? Are problem boxes domain-joined, non-domain-joined, mixed? Any unusual/uncommon non-Microsoft software in common? (OS/UI tweaker? third-party AV/anti-malware? old/unsigned drivers for old/ropey devices?) Anything at all (hw? sw? config?) that might make them “different” from other boxes successfully updating?

(Fwiw, included among boxes I have yet to update are some with drivers Win11 doesn’t seem to like – nothing obscure (Brother, Logitech) but Win11 flags them when attempting to turn on recommended “Memory integrity” (Windows Security > Device security > Core isolation > Memory integrity). Fortunately, these drivers-non-grata haven’t contributed to a Microsoft update problem… yet.)

Hope this helps.

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I am Win10/Pro 22H2 updated through the Patch Tuesday April patches.
I have the Patch Tuesday May patches hidden in WUSHOWHIDE.
I have the GP setting 2=Notify for Download and auto install.

This evening WU notified me that KB5039843 (2024-05) NET 6.0.31 Update for x64 Client Version 22H2, released May 28, 2024 was ready to be downloaded and installed. I hid it with WUSH. I will install it when I install the other May Patch Tuesday patches that were released May 14.

This one was released after SB’s Master Patch list of May 28, so it’s not listed there.

What gives?? On May 14 Patch Tuesday, KB5038350 (2024-05) NET 6.0.30 Update for x64 Client Version 22H2 was released.

Now two weeks later (i.e., May 28) a newer .NET 6.0.31 has been released. This is not a Preview.

Is there some new vulnerability that has cropped up for this newer .NET 6.0 to address??

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The .Net 6.0.31 “refresh” appears to include security updates while the .Net 6.0.30 update did not.

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The Patch Tuesday .Net Updates have been removed from the manual download availability, which you can see in the links attached:

.Net 6.0.31 replacing .Net 6.0.30
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=.net%206.0
.Net 7.0.20 replacing .Net 7.0.19
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=.net%207.0
.Net 8.0.6 replacing .Net 8.0.5
https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=.net%208.0

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Microsoft also released a “refresh” for .Net 8 to bring it from 8.0.5 to 8.0.6.  See .NET 8.0 Update – May 28 2024 (KB5039845)

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As Arte Johnson would say, “Verrry interesting!”

According to Microsoft’s .NET and .NET Core Support Policy page, .NET 7 went EoS as of May 14 2024, but I just got notified a security update (.NET 7.0 Update – May 28, 2024 (KB5039844)) was available that updates it from 7.0.19 to 7.0.20.

Guess than EoS date was just a bit off the mark.

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Three of my updates have been stuck in the download phase for more than 5 hours.  They are (1)  the MSRT update KB890830,  which has been stuck at 49% downloaded, (2) the .NET security update KB5039843, stuck at 58% downloaded, and (3) the Windows 10 update KB5037768, stuck at 0% downloaded.  There were two other updates that downloaded and installed successfully,  namely the Microsoft Defender update and the Windows 10 update KB5001716.  I did some research on the Internet, and came across a couple of solutions but they had some peculiarities that made me reluctant to try them.  Since I’m not a computer expert,  I thought I would ask the advice of the experts on this website.  My situation appears to be very similar to that of user Rush2112 on May 28, 2024 (see above postings #2675818, #2675830, and #2675854).  I don’t see any postings as to whether Rush2112’s problem has been resolved yet.  I have Windows 10 Pro 22H2.  with an Internet download speed of up to 100 MBPS.  I have not tried to restart the computer, because I’m not sure I should do that if the updates are still in the middle of a download.  Can someone please give me some advice on what I should do?

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Reset your router/Internet connection.
Shut down and restart your PC.

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L95 wrote:

Three of my updates have been stuck in the download phase for more than 5 hours. They are (1) the MSRT update KB890830, which has been stuck at 49% downloaded, (2) the .NET security update KB5039843, stuck at 58% downloaded, and (3) the Windows 10 update KB5037768, stuck at 0% downloaded.

Hi L95:

I had a similar problem with the May 2024 Patch Tuesday updates on my Win 10 Pro v22H2 machine – see my 19-May-2024 post # 2673128 in Susan Bradley’s May Updates for Apple and Microsoft about the Retry link I eventually saw at Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update.

After you have re-booted your router (unplug the power cord, wait about a minute, plug it back in and wait for it to re-acquire a signal with your ISP) and computer as Alex5723 advised in post # 2676731 I’d also suggest you just allow Windows Update to restart your update session in the background while you continue using your computer – i.e., wait a few hours before you go to Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update to monitor the progress of your updates.

I don’t know why, but I sometimes find that when I open Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update it either interferes with Windows Update or doesn’t accurately reflect what Windows Update is doing in real-time (e.g., that windows shows that Windows Update appears to be stuck even though Task Manager shows the Windows Update Agent is active and consuming system resources).

If you re-boot your router and computer and wait a few hours before opening Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update and nothing has changed (i.e., Windows Update is stuck at the same place and you don’t see an error code or Retry link) post back to let us know what antivirus you use and attach an image of what you see at Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update.
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Thank you to Imacri and Alex5723.  However,  I didn’t need to try your suggestions because of the following:  After I posted my question at 3:11 AM today (May 31),  I went to sleep and slept until noon.  When I returned to the computer,  it showed  that two of the three updates were no longer stuck,  but the third one (Windows 10 update KB5037768)  was still stuck at 0% download.  I checked my MSRT scan log (located at C:\Windows\Debug\mrt.log) and it showed that an MSRT scan was done at 4:26 AM, indicating that the MSRT update KB890830 must have downloaded and installed around that time.   Then I started reading the postings by Alex5723 and Imacri and at 12:32 PM a message popped up on the screen showing that the final update KB5037768 had downloaded.  So the total elapsed time to download all of the updates was a little over 15 hours.  I guess Paul T was right in his posting above at #2675851 when he said you just need to be patient.  But 15 hours is quite a long time.  Maybe the reason it took so long was due to what Imacri said about being in Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update to monitor the progress of my updates.  But I use the “Pause Updates” method of stalling updates until the DEFCON level allows us to resume updates for the month,  and I have to go to that setting in order to resume updates.  So for next month,  should I just quickly get out of that setting after I’ve resumed the updates?

Also, another question for Imacri:  Why didn’t you suggest I try the “Reset”  button instead of restarting my router and computer?  I couldn’t find it during the time I was still waiting for  KB5037768 to download. and so where do you find the “reset” button?  I know you said it’s at Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update,  but I couldn’t find it there.

Thanks again,  and I will appreciate your response.

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You want the Retry – not the Reset – button that’s highlighted in red here:
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/may-updates-for-apple-and-microsoft/#post-2673128
(This is @imacri’s post that he/she referenced above)

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Thanks DrBonzo.  I had mistakenly typed the word “Reset” instead of “Retry” in my posting.  But in any event,  now that you’ve pointed out to me that it’s highlighted in red on the link to Imacri’s posting,  I can see that the “Retry” button appears when Microsoft shows that a download error occurred.   But in my case,  it never gave me a download error.  It simply seemed to have stuck at a partially downloaded stage and wouldn’t progress onward to be fully downloaded.

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L95 wrote:

Maybe the reason it took so long was due to what Imacri said about being in Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update to monitor the progress of my updates. But I use the “Pause Updates” method of stalling updates …So for next month, should I just quickly get out of that setting after I’ve resumed the updates?

Hi L95:

Yes, I would suggest you go to Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update, unpause / restart your updates, and then close that Settings window and leave Windows Update alone to run in the background. I know this sounds odd but other users have commented about how Windows Update appears to slow down or get stuck if you leave this Settings window open – see last year’s discussion by PKCano and others in Susan Bradly’s April 2023 The Patching Showers of April.

If Windows Update displays a Restart Now pop-up in your system tray asking you to restart your computer to finish the installation of your updates just make sure you open Settings | Update & Security | Windows Update again and confirm that ALL updates have actually finished installing and have a status of “Pending Restart”. For some reason Windows Update will often display this “Restart Now” pop-up BEFORE all updates have actually finished installing (for me, this always happens when my Patch Tuesday updates include an update for the Microsoft .NET Framework – see the image below I captured during my May 2024 Patch Tuesday updates) and you definitely don’t want to click the “Restart Now” button before your monthly cumulative Quality update has actually finished installing.

L95 wrote:

.. so where do you find the “reset” button?

And yes, DrBonzo was correct. You probably won’t see the Retry link I showed in the image in my 19-May-2024 post # 2673128 unless Windows Update throws an error because your connection to the Windows Update server was broken or timed out during the download.
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I appreciate users posting experiences on this board. Given the negative stalls, I’ve decided to start/stop/Pause to skip the May update. The likelihood of a PC being bricked by a Microsoft update is, IMO, way higher than an attack by a threat actor exploiting a vulnerability over a month.

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It seems to me that it can cause problems if updates are not installed in a timely fashion.  I’ve had problems with Windows Media Player for the past few weeks.  It would stop working shortly after I opened up the Windows Media Player (WMP),  and then it took a while for me to close out of it and would tie up my computer as it was closing out.  It became very frustrating because I use WMP a lot,  so I switched to a different media player,  but I didn’t like it as well  as the Windows Player.  I spent a fair amount of time in research trying to find a solution to the problem.  Finally,  today the problem has been fixed.  I’ve installed the Windows Updates  for the month of May today,  and WMP has resumed working again.  I assume the reason it wasn’t working for me during most of the month of May is because it needed one of the May updates to work properly.  I’m venturing to guess that if any other people who have delayed installing the May updates and have had problems with Windows Media Player this month,  those problems may have been due to their delaying the installation of the May updates until now.  Like I say,  it’s just a guess on my part,  but it seems reasonable.

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L95 wrote:

I’ve had problems with Windows Media Player for the past few weeks…Finally, today the problem has been fixed.

Hi L95:

If you use Malwarebytes Premium see mlemboi’s 25-May-2024 Windows Media Player Crashing in the Malwarebytes for Windows forum.
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lmacri wrote:

If you use Malwarebytes Premium see mlemboi’s 25-May-2024 Windows Media Player Crashing in the Malwarebytes for Windows forum.

Hi Imacri:

Thank you for your posting.  I do use Malwarebytes Premium,  and indeed it does turns out that it was a problem being caused by Malwarebytes,  because I discovered later that that the problem with Windows Media Player started up again after I had made my posting on May 31, 2024,  and then I contacted Malwarebytes by e-mail,  and they told me it was a problem being caused by Malwarebytes.   They have now corrected the problem with an update issued on 7/1/24 (version v5.1.6.117 component package 1.0.1270),  and now my Windows Media Player is working properly.

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I am having a problem that I think may be caused by the Win 10 22H2 cumulative update KB5037768. I installed it on Thursday and other than the usual slow install everything went well. But the first time I tried to shut down my PC after that update it would not shut down. Instead it went into the standard restart routine. It did that three times in a row. I had to be someplace so I did a forced shut down. Starting my PC this morning was okay, but I still have this problem where it wants to restart rather than do a normal shut down. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

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The attached article may help, or you could reinstall Windows over the top.

Mark

HTH

 

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Thanks for the link. I don’t think it was an infinite boot loop giving me the problem, but the article gave me some ideas and I went through some of them, including the SFC /Scannow process and doing a thorough system cleanup. One thing in the article that got my attention was the section recommending doing a System Restore. On the Advanced Options screen where System Restore is located, it also lists Startup Repair. I tried that out of curiosity and it seems to have done the trick. Still not entirely sure what caused the problem, although doing that update was the only thing that had changed on my system. Anyway, my PC shuts down properly now.

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I had a similar thing on my desktop pc once. It had something to do with fast startup, the system not turning itself entirely off for a fast startup etc. I found lots of setting and solutions etc, but the simplest fix was to hold down shift as I click shutdown, forcing a proper shutdown. Been doing  that ever since.

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I installed WU on my 2 Desktops on Wednesday still need to do my laptop. MSRT, KB 5038285 .NET, KB 5037768 cum 22H2, SSU 10.0.19041.4351.

On my AMD computer .NET took forever to install ( at least 45 Min. ) and the cum 22H2 stopped downloading while .NET was installing but started downloading again after .NET finished. Normally the download doesn’t stop. On my old Intel computer everything went smooth.

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
All W10 Pro at 22H2,(2 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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Has anyone else experienced this – I have Configure Automatic Updates disabled in Group Policy (and have so for years). However, this month Microsoft update not only downloaded May’s updates, it installed them and rebooted the pc. The only setting that is honored is the Select When Quality Updates are Received (which is set at 14 days).

This didn’t happen on all my devices (apprx 40) but on ~90% of them. At first I thought it was related to having the Office 365 desktop apps installed, but no. then I thought it was only  domain joined devices, again no.

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“2024-05 .NET 6.0.31 Security Update for x64 Client (KB5039843)” is not listed in the Master Patch List for May, but it is listed in ‘Settings | Update & Security| Windows Updates | Updates Available”.  What is the status  of this patch – Install, Defer or Avoid?  I notice there have been some issues reported about this patch not downloading/installing…  Should this patch be hidden?

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Bruce wrote:

“2024-05 .NET 6.0.31 Security Update for x64 Client (KB5039843)

This is a preview from May 28 not recommended to be installed and not part of May updates.

You should block preview updates.

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Alex5723 wrote:

This is a preview from May 28 not recommended to be installed and not part of May updates.

I don’t understand this answer. See my question about this and the answer to it.

I don’t get Previews and .NET 6.0.31 was not marked as a Preview when WUSH delivered it. I had hidden .NET 6.0.30 with WUSH on May Patch Tuesday and when .NET 6.0.31 was in the queue two weeks later, I hid it, .NET 6.0.30 disappeared, and .NET 6.0.31 became the replacement.

If 6.0.31 has security fixes and 6.0.30 does not, it seems that it would be wise to install 6.0.31.

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Patches issued on the last week of a month are previews.
You will get this patch on patch Tuesday June 11.

Do you have any software that use .Net 6 ?

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Alex5723 wrote:

Do you have any software that use .Net 6 ?

Apparently, I do. I can’t say for sure, but I think Dell’s SupportAssist calls for .NET 6.

Is “refresh” another term for “preview”? I was under the impression that May Patch Tuesday .NET 6.0.30 has an error in it, so it was pulled from the catalog and replaced with .NET 6.0.31, which is the correct version. That means that it is not a ‘preview’ but is, instead, a ‘refresh’=corrected version. In point of fact, .NET 6.0.31 does not have ‘Preview” in the title. If it were a preview, it would have ‘Preview’ in the title.

The .NET 6.0.31 Release Notes say

The .NET 6.0.30 release on May 14, 2024 included updates to the WiX toolset which were incorrectly signed. This caused failures in scenarios on Windows where Code Integrity checks were enabled.

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To me, this means “install it now” — don’t wait until the June Patch Tuesday update — which is likely going to be .NET 6.0.32 (and won’t be the same as .NET 6.0.31).

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WCHS wrote:

To me, this means “install it now” — don’t wait until the June Patch Tuesday update — which is likely going to be .NET 6.0.32 (and won’t be the same as .NET 6.0.31).

It might not be the exact same, but it will include the security changes that were made from 6.0.30 to 6.0.31 most likely, just as most regular monthly updates have in the past for .NET and the slightly different .NET Framework.

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Bob99 wrote:

but it will include the security changes that were made from 6.0.30 to 6.0.31 most likely,

Given that updates are cumulative. that’s that I meant … plus maybe some added changes, which would make 6.0.32 different from 6.0.31.

Anyway, I don’t think it’s accurate to say that 6.0.31 is a preview and I don’t think it’s wise to skip it and wait for the June Patch Tuesday .NET 6.0.x, especially if one waits until MS-DEF CON moves to 3+ or waits until even later, like I do — I usually do updates the weekend before the new Patch Tuesday updates. I hate backups and updates and put it off as long as I can. Keeping Windows fit is a high-maintenance job, especially with more than one PC!!

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I just found a page in the release notes and other info that specifically says “.NET 6.0.31 release carries security fixes.”, so install away!!

The page I found it on is here: https://github.com/dotnet/core/commit/6c698031b11833df6874d409f8875501b7e0ac30.

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Alex5723 wrote:

Patches issued on the last week of a month are previews.

NOT always. Patch refreshes and out-of-band patches/updates can be released at ANY time.

Per the release notes, this is a Refresh.

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Regarding @bruce’s post, the release of .NET 6.0.31 happened after Susan’s May 28 Master Patch List was published, so I think that’s the reason it is not listed there.

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WCHS wrote:

If 6.0.31 has security fixes and 6.0.30 does not, it seems that it would be wise to install 6.0.31.

Alright, then, forget the “if”. Let it read

6.0.31 has security fixes and 6.0.30 does not, so it is wise to install 6.0.31

notwithstanding that it is not in the May 28 Master Patch List.

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WCHS wrote:

I don’t get Previews

When I say at #2679423 that I don’t get Previews in my Win10/Pro 22H2 Windows Updates, I mean to say that I use the Group Policy settings that lmacri describes (days=0 and TRV=Window 10 22H2) to prevent Windows Update from delivering Preview updates.

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WCHS wrote:

If 6.0.31 has security fixes and 6.0.30 does not, it seems that it would be wise to install 6.0.31.

I agree with WCHS  and Bob99.

I have a Win 10 Pro OS and use the Local Group Policy Editor to prevent Windows Update from delivering Preview updates. I have the Microsoft Windows Desktop Runtime v8.0.x installed on my computer and Windows Update automatically delivered .NET Runtime v8.0.6 on 29-May-2024 (see image below), so I assume the three .NET Runtime updates listed in KP’s 31-May-2024 post # 2676868 (v6.0.31 / v7.0.20 / v8.0.6) were out-of-band security updates and not Preview builds.

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@Imacri In regards to

lmacri wrote:

I have a Win 10 Pro OS and use the Local Group Policy Editor to prevent Windows Update from delivering Preview updates.

Where are the group policy settings for this setting? Thank you in advance.

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Sueska wrote:

Where are the group policy settings for this setting?

Hi Sueska:

If you have a Professional edition of Windows 10 enter gpedit.msc in a Run dialog box (Windows key + R) to open the Local Group Policy Editor, go to Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Update | Windows Update for Business | Select When Preview Builds and Feature Are Received, and ENABLE that setting.

Note that I have deferred for the minimum 1 day because my Target Release Version (Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Update | Windows Update for Business | Select the Target Feature Update Version) is set to Windows 10 / 22H2 to prevent an unexpected upgrade to Windows 11, which overrides this deferral. If you have not set your Target Release Version (TRV) then defer for the maximum 365 days (or the number of days you prefer) as shown in the second image of post # 2275043 of PKCano’s KB article 2000016: Guide for Windows Update Settings for Windows 10.

Also note that PKCano’s second image in that same post # 2275043 from 2020 also has an option to set the “branch readiness level” to Semi-Annual Channel, but that option no longer exists in my Win 10 Pro v22H2 Local Group Policy Editor. However, configuring the “Select When Preview Builds and Feature Are Received” setting as shown in my image above still seems to work as expected for Win 10 v22H2 because Windows Update does not offer optional Preview updates on my system.
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Dell Inspiron 15 5584 * 64-bit Win 10 Pro v22H2 build 19045.4412 * Firefox v126.0.1 * Microsoft Defender v4.18.24050.7-1.1.24050.5 * Malwarebytes Premium v5.1.5.116-1.0.1252 * Macrium Reflect Free v8.0.7783

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lmacri wrote:

go to Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Update | Windows Update for Business | Select When Preview Builds and Feature Updates Are Received, and ENABLE that setting.

Hi Sueska:

I should add that you might notice a second setting at Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Update | Windows Update for Business | Manage Preview Builds. This is a separate setting that can be used to prevent users from opting into the Windows Insider Program at Settings | Update and Security | Windows Insider Program – see Option # 3 of Brink’s TenFourms tutorial How to Start or Stop Getting Insider Preview Builds on Windows 10 PC for more information.

This is not a Local Group Policy Editor setting most home consumers with a Professional edition of Windows would want or need to configure.  However, you should not be joining the Windows Insider Program at Settings | Update and Security | Windows Insider Program unless you have a high degree of technical expertise and want to beta test upcoming changes that might be included in a future release of your Windows OS (e.g., new Copilot AI features, GUI design changes, etc.), since the Insider builds can be very buggy.
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