Microsoft is telling Windows 11 customers to uninstall a current software program replace after it was found to trigger sure apps to crash.

In a support document (through Windows Latest), the software program large admitted Windows 11 replace KB5012643 causes apps utilizing particular .NET 3.5 framework elements to turn out to be unstable. The .NET Framework is a free, open-source platform used to construct and run applications on Windows, and is relied upon by many apps.

“After installing this update, some .NET Framework 3.5 apps might have issues or might fail to open. Affected apps are using certain optional components in .NET Framework 3.5, such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WWF) components,” Microsoft wrote.

If there’s a sliver of excellent information, it’s that this explicit replace is optionally available, so whereas it promised a number of dozen fixes, it doubtless hasn’t been put in in your system. Also, this bug doesn’t have an effect on each app, solely these utilizing sure .NET 3.5 components, like Windows Workflow. If your PC is working KB5012643 for Windows model 21H2, and also you’re experiencing points with sure apps, Microsoft’s recommendation is easy: uninstall the replace.

How to Uninstall Windows 11 replace

To achieve this, open the Start menu, sort “Windows Update settings” and select the highlighted possibility. Using this search skips you all the way in which to the web page with “Update history.” Press on it, then discover the perpetrator—KB5012643 on this case—and select “uninstall.”

You’ll have to reset your system for the change to undergo. Once it does, your laptop computer, desktop, or pill must be exterminated of those newest bugs. If you’re in opposition to uninstalling the replace or if doing so didn’t resolve the problem, Microsoft additionally suggests re-enabling .NET Framework 3.5 and the Windows Communication Foundation on the Windows Features Settings web page. This requires working the next instructions within the terminal:

dism /on-line /enable-feature /featurename:netfx3 /all

dism /on-line /enable-feature /featurename:WCF-HTTP-Activation

dism /on-line /enable-feature /featurename:WCF-NonHTTP-Activation

This explicit error isn’t widespread and received’t be of significance to most Windows 11 customers. However, it follows a string of current bugs, together with one which reportedly broke safe mode. Windows 11’s launch has been largely easy crusing, with few main points surfacing for the reason that OS launched six months in the past. But it comes on the heels of a disastrous timeline when it felt as if each Windows 10 replace did extra hurt than good. We can solely hope Microsoft cleans up its act earlier than one thing extra severe squeaks by way of.