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@antspants KIR fixes are silent emergency fixes that are pushed out by Microsoft and are entirely separate from cumulative updates.

@Stupsi Norton has fixed the issue. It now works with the Preview version, as does Bitdefender. Not sure about Avast.

Bitdefender is fixed for me as well. Yay! How about Avast and Norton?

@Emer Regarding the incompatibility with Avast, Norton, and Bitdefender, if you just hit OK to the error message, sfc and dism will run to completion. The problem is that the antivirus programs are failing to hook program calls from Command Prompt, which would be a critical problem if you were...

I just heard back from Bitdefender tech support. They don't support preview builds. Hopefully, they will have a fix in place by March 11, when the regular update for Windows comes out. In the meantime, Bitdefender's Advanced Threat Defense is nonfunctional.

I am getting the "Bad Image" error with both Bitdefender on one machine and Norton on another when running any command in Command Prompt or Powershell. I have sent support tool logs to Bitdefender.

Another way to fix the Explorer menu bug... Run the following in administrative mode: vivetool.exe /disable /id:51960011 Then reboot. From Windows 11 24H2: Explorer bug opens menu “upwards” - Workaround

Run the following in an elevated command: reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Secureboot /v AvailableUpdates /t REG_DWORD /d 0x200 /f Reboot twice. This updates the Secure Version Number. This fixed the same error for me.

For me the windows update cleanup problem did not start until I ran Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase. After that, I had 8.63GB of unremovable windows update files, as reported above. And like everyone else, sfc /scannow attempts to repair Webview2 (and fails...

I installed the mitigation and got a different PolicyHash: 36E1176CA0F8B1473684C4B20A112E5027719CCE2D97103FDC97BF5B554A3BD4 However, the PolicyIdBuffer and the PolicyGUID match those of the document. I don't know what to make of this. Any ideas?

I uninstalled Office 2021 Retail using the MS Office removal tool. I manually cleaned out the orphaned registry entries, as advised. I reinstalled Office. Checking for updates worked again. I rebooted and tested again. It still worked. Then 4 hours later I tested again, and the error message had...

If I use the value 00800000 for FeatureSettingsOverride, it disables global mitigation of Speculation Store Bypass. The previous value (8) enabled global mitigation of Speculation Store Bypass. That's why I wondered if you could add the values and use 00800008.

Would you set FeatureSettingsOverride to dword:00800008, if you also want to enable mitigation for Speculation Store Bypass globally? I seem to recall that the bitmap masks are additive. Thanks.

@Spunk Yes, I am sure. The desktop is black, and it says Safe Mode at all four corners.

@bobkn If you want to use the latest Intel microcode with an ASUS motherboard, you would need to mod the BIOS yourself using the tools at the Win-Raid Forum. Here is a link to the microcode: Intel, AMD, VIA & Freescale CPU Microcode Repositories Discussion. But unless you are familiar with...