- Windows 11’s June Update is not able to install for some people
- It’s complicated because Microsoft released an initial update this month – which was a break – and then a revised patch that replaced it
- This revised patch also causes unfortunate errors according to some reports
Windows 11’s latest update turns out to be problematic for some people who can’t even install it and others run into trouble with bugs in the patch – or the fact that it doesn’t solve the problems it should.
We have to rewind a little back here for context and remember that Microsoft started off a bad start with Windows 11 24h2’s update for June. The initial patch (codename KB5060842) was paused after Microsoft discovered it collided with an anti-cheat tool, which means games using this system would go down.
To resolve this, Microsoft released another update (PATCH KB5063060) that replaced the first patch in Windows Update, but as Windows latest reports, people run into installation errors with that upgrade.
Some users encounter the usual nonsense and unhelpful error messages (with meaningless error codes such as ‘0x800F0922’), while others say the revised update is stuck and downloads and never actually ends.
This is based on complaints from Microsoft’s feedback hub, readers who contact Windows latest directly, and posts on Reddit like this one describing a worrying boot loop (of three to four reboot) before the user returned to Windows 11 to find that the update installation had not worked.
There are also people who say they have run into bugs with the KB5063060. These include reports of freezing the taskbar when the PC wakes up from sleep, and problems with external screens go wrong and Bluetooth devices are forgotten (so you have to rediscover them every time Windows 11 is restarted).
There are some more worrying reports about PCs that end up freezing full-stop so they need to be restarted. And there are a few complaints (again on Reddit) that even after installing this other patch-as should work fine with games using Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) -er some games still problematic.
“I still have the same problem playing a constellation,” a player wrote. “Game freezing randomly and Windows Event Log Viewer shows the EAC error.”
There are additional reports on Fortnite and Efootball25 (which was previously PES) still crashing, so it seems not all wrinkles have been ironed out.
Analysis: A disappointingly messy rollout for June
Installation error is a long -term problem with Windows 11 (and Windows 10 for that matter). It is therefore no surprise that given the misfire with the initial update now emerges.
As Windows latest points out because there were two updates this time, there may be problems with PCs already grabbing the KB5060842 and now the second KB5063060 update due to having a game with EAC installed affected by anti-cheat compatibility errors in the first.
In such scenarios, it is possible that Windows 11, trying to overwrite the first patch with the second, causes Windows update to fall over. However, those in this situation should be limited in number, as Microsoft pulled the first patch quite quickly (so it didn’t get through to many PCs with games using EAC, at least in theory anyway).
It’s just speculations, but no matter what way you slice it, this has been a messy rollout of an update (yes, a few updates technical).
What can you do if you are stuck and are unable to install the revised June update? One approach is to download the update manually and install it directly, which you can do by grabbing the file from Microsoft’s Website (X64 version, which the arm-based is for Snapdragon PCs).
It had to install successfully, but I would be pretty careful about taking this approach if you are not a reasonably confident computer user.
Alternatively, you can just wait until Microsoft hopefully sorts any problem (s) behind the scenes on its side, and the update may just succeed under his own steam later this week. However, there is no guarantee of it and you are very much in a less than ideal situation.
Those who can install the revised update but still experience going down with games (or other places) can’t do much except waiting and asking for problems to be resolved. The only other possible route is to uninstall the patch, but it is not recommended because it leaves your PC without the latest round of security fixes delivered with each cumulative update for Windows 11. (You also do not get the latest features, some of which are smart additions).
