It’s time for a Windows Update! Not only in news form, but for your PC! Who doesn’t love to read about UPDATE KB5006674 (OS Build 22000.258)? To be honest, it does give some indication as to how fast Microsoft is reacting to major errors in the new operating system, like how some brands of printers just aren’t working over USB.
There’s nothing particularly major in this update, but Microsoft has fixed connectivity issues between Intel “Killer” and “SmartByte” networking software, so anyone with those issues should now see a more official fix for your connection woes. This issue mostly affected streaming video and loading web pages, as it’d cause the PC to drop UDP packets, which are needed to connect with servers.
Outside of this, there’s a highlight that says “Updates security for your Windows operating system” and has no explanation as to what it actually contains. There’s a larger list on the release notes, but it’s just a list of the things that have seen an update and not what they’ve fixed in them. But at least they’re not aware of any issues this time around!
Here’s everything that’s included in that fix:
- .NET Core & Visual Studio
- Active Directory Federation Services
- Console Window Host
- HTTP.sys
- Microsoft DWM Core Library
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- Microsoft Graphics Component
- Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Office Excel
- Microsoft Office SharePoint
- Microsoft Office Visio
- Microsoft Office Word
- Microsoft Windows Codecs Library
- Rich Text Edit Control
- Role: DNS Server
- Role: Windows Active Directory Server
- Role: Windows AD FS Server
- Role: Windows Hyper-V
- System Center
- Visual Studio
- Windows AppContainer
- Windows AppX Deployment Service
- Windows Bind Filter Driver
- Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver
- Windows Common Log File System Driver
- Windows Desktop Bridge
- Windows DirectX
- Windows Event Tracing
- Windows exFAT File System
- Windows Fastfat Driver
- Windows Installer
- Windows Kernel
- Windows MSHTML Platform
- Windows Nearby Sharing
- Windows Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Windows Print Spooler Components
- Windows Remote Procedure Call Runtime
- Windows Storage Spaces Controller
- Windows TCP/IP
- Windows Text Shaping
- Windows Win32K