Microsoft's patch maze: two updates in one week to fix printing bugs and blue screens

At the beginning of this week we saw how Microsoft launched the patch that had to put an end to the problems generated when printing and which caused the appearance of the dreaded blue screen of death. A solution that came through patch KB5001567 and that has not finished correcting the bug for which it was intended

This is the reason why Microsoft releases a patch to correct the bugs generated by the corrective patch that was supposed to correct the bug that came with the patch that contained the March 2021 update.Yeah, I know, it's an interesting mess Microsoft has gotten itself into

A patch to correct the patch

Company releases one patch, then another and two in a week, to address issues the patch should have fixed KB5001567. This was to address the blue screen of death with the APC_INDEX_MISMATCH BSOD error message when printing any document.

And yet, the Borncity outlet reported that this solution did not correct the problem and some users continued to experience the error message when trying to of printing a document so that they saw the blue screen appear when trying to print or the prints were not carried out correctly.

So now patch KB5001567 has been followed by patch KB5001649, which is intended to fix the bug generated in the previous patch concealer.Furthermore, it is noteworthy that Microsoft recommends that only users who are affected by this problem install this update. This is what Microsoft reports on the support page:

These are all the versions of Windows 10 that benefit from the arrival of the new patch:

• Windows 10 version 20H2 and Windows Server version 20H2 ( KB5001649)
• Windows 10 version 2004 and Windows Server version 2004 ( KB5001649)
• Windows 10 version 1909 and Windows Server version 1909 ( KB5001648)
• Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 (KB5001638)
• Windows 10 version 1803 (KB5001634)
• Windows 10 version 1607 and Windows Server 2016 (KB5001633)
• Windows 10 version 1507 (KB5001631)

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Remember that we can always use the most drastic solution, which is none other than uninstalling the update that is causing problems going to the route Settings, Update and security and within it click on View update history The next step is to use the Uninstall updates option by checking the update KB5000802 and then clicking on the button Uninstall"