In early November, after the November 2021 Patch Tuesday update, Windows 11 started crashing in several applications, including the Snipping Tool. The bug was related to certificates that expired and caused apps to crash and BSOD (Blue Screen of Death). Fortunately, these issues have been fixed in Windows 5007262 Update KB11 for Windows Insiders.
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Windows 5007262 Update KB11 Fixes Crashing Apps
According to Microsoft's issue report, it was said by the company that the aforementioned bug resulted in Microsoft Installer (MSI) failures. According to the Windows developer's findings, the affected applications have security solutions from Kaspersky. Applications are said to crash when the user applies an update to the affected program or tries to fix it using Windows Settings or the Troubleshooter.
Through the KB5007262 update for Windows 11, Microsoft has brought a fix for these problems that are causing many applications to crash in the operating system. The update made available to Insiders advances the operating system to Windows 11 Build 22000.348.
According to the new update notes, the new patch has a fix for a bug that prevented apps from opening after updating or repairing them by the Microsoft Installer (MSI). It is important to emphasize that this update is available, for now, only for beta testers, but it should be released soon for the general public.
Other fixes coming in update KB5007262 for Windows 11 (Build 22000.348)
The new KB5007262 update for Windows 11 should be made available to everyone in the next few days. It is important to remember that in this case it will be optional and can only be manually installed by the user via Windows Update. The patch will apply fixes for several other issues besides what causes applications to crash.
Fixed an issue in Windows 22000.348 Build 11 that affected PowerShell 7.1 and later. According to the developers, the bug stopped the Appx PowerShell cmdlet from working on some machines. Also fixed another bug that caused the "bad image" error to appear on operating system startup.
Another bug fixed by Microsoft in the new patch is one that caused searchindexer.exe to crash or increase memory usage. This issue usually occurred on computers that were undergoing a remote desktop "dismount".
Also fixed a bug that caused computers to stop responding when returning from standby or hibernation. This issue has been reported on machines with specific processors, however Microsoft has not listed further CPUs that were affected.
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Known issues that emerged with the last update
At this time, Microsoft is not aware of critical issues in the KB5007262 update. However, if there is a bug, be sure to report it to the writer of this article.
