Microsoft has launched emergency Home windows out-of-band updates to resolve a identified problem breaking reset and restoration operations after putting in the August 2025 Home windows safety updates.
As the corporate confirmed when it acknowledged the bug on Monday, these issues affect programs working each Home windows 10 and older variations of Home windows 11.
The record of buggy updates inflicting these restoration issues contains KB5063875 (Home windows 11 23H2 and Home windows 11 22H2), KB5063709 (Home windows 10 22H2, Home windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021, and Home windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021), and KB5063877 (Home windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019, Home windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019).
Putting in this month’s safety updates will trigger makes an attempt to reset or get well the system to fail for customers who wish to reinstall their programs whereas maintaining their recordsdata utilizing ‘Reset my PC‘, or reinstall it and maintain their recordsdata, apps, and settings utilizing the ‘Repair issues utilizing Home windows Replace ‘ instrument.
This identified problem may have an effect on IT professionals who wish to remotely reset units by way of the RemoteWipe configuration service supplier (RemoteWipe CSP).
On Tuesday night, sooner or later after confirming this identified problem, Redmond launched the next emergency updates to handle it and urged those that had not but deployed this month’s updates to put in the out-of-band ones as an alternative:
- KB5066189 (Home windows 11, variations 23H2 and 22H2),
- KB5066188 (Home windows 10 22H2, Home windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021, and Home windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021),
- KB5066187 (Home windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2019 and Home windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2019).
“A non-security out-of-band (OOB) replace was launched as we speak, August 19, 2025, to handle this problem. This can be a cumulative replace, so you do not want to use any earlier updates earlier than putting in this replace, because it supersedes all earlier updates for affected variations,” the corporate mentioned.
“If you have not put in the August 2025 Home windows safety replace but, we advocate you apply this OOB replace as an alternative. In case your system shouldn’t be affected by this problem, you do not want to put in this OOB replace.”
These emergency updates can be found as elective updates by way of Home windows Replace and Home windows Replace for Enterprise, or may be downloaded and put in manually from the Microsoft Replace Catalog.
On Friday, Microsoft additionally rolled out a Recognized Concern Rollback (KIR) repair for a bug that triggers Home windows replace failures when put in from a community share utilizing the Home windows Replace Standalone Installer (WUSA).
​Final week, the corporate additionally fastened a identified problem that precipitated the August 2025 safety updates to fail with 0x80240069 errors on Home windows 11 24H2 programs when delivered by way of Home windows Server Replace Providers (WSUS) after putting in the KB5063878 replace.
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