June 9th Update - Buggy Start Menu Category View
Hi, The latest cumulative update from June introduced a new Start menu and disrupted its behavior in certain situations. Normally, it would allow you to set one of the following view options: Category, Grid, or List. This setting should have persisted. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Under certain circumstances, Windows keeps reverting to the Categories view, regardless of your previous selection. According to https://james-rankin.com/articles/quickpost-windows-11-start-menu-reverts-to-category-view-after-group-policy-refresh/?trk=public_post_comment-text, this issue stems from a bug in combination with specific GPOs. My conclusion is that Microsoft introduced a bug in the June update. Surprisingly, little information is available when searching for this issue online. This seems particularly true when reviewing the GPOs mentioned in the article, which include certain advertisement and tracking options. I am surprised by how little is documented about this online. Personally, this only affects my company machines due to one or two of those GPOs, I suspect. I wonder how many others in this community are also affected by this bug.
How to Stop the Win 11 KB5094126 Installation Loop and Safely Upgrade From March Baseline Risk-Free
Hello, I need some advice regarding a persistent Windows Update installation loop affecting my machine. My system is currently on a March baseline and is out of date. My primary goal is to completely stop this endless installation loop so I can successfully upgrade Windows to the latest version in a risk-free manner that doesn’t mess around with system files . What is the most effective, safe and risk-free way to temporarily stop this automatic background update installation loop without it coming back in a few days or causing a lot of background strain, as I feel like when it’s in the background and disabled it is still hammering my hardware and causing high thermal strain, because it flucationing between abled/disabled a lot, this can’t go on, it’s already been a month. Is it 100% safe to use the Microsoft WUShowHide utility (wushowhide.diagcab) as a block to stop the hardware strain, and will it prevent future brightness fluctuations? Will be permanently disable or come back? How can I fix this loop, with absolutely zero risk to my custom graphics profiles, legacy driver stability, or screen brightness thresholds? Does the newly released July Cumulative Update (KB5101650) wrapper contain the renewed firmware validation keys necessary to clear out this March-to-June servicing stack blockage cleanly? Or could it cause system crash or corruption if installed. Are there known risks or side effects with attempting a repair upgrade or an in-place reinstall for this specific loop? I want to completely avoid anything that resets custom device properties, alters display configurations, or reverts stable graphics card driver profiles or potentially gets stuck, as both take up 20-30 on every attempt and harsh to the system. 6.Since my system is currently out of date on a March baseline, what is the safest path to install a newer, stable update without risking my custom display configurations? 7.Has anyone successfully applied a manual UEFI certificate renewal or a Secure Boot key variable override to bypass the expired Microsoft June 2026 validation timeline on general retail hardware? Any risks? My System Specs: -OS Edition: Windows 11 Home Single Language (Retail Channel) -Version / Build: 25H2 (OS Build 26200.8117 - March 2026 Baseline) -Hardware: ASUS Laptop (Model M413A) -Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics (2.00 GHz, 8 Cores) -Memory: 8.00 GB RAM (7.42 GB usable) -Storage: Local C: Drive has 226 GB used out of 477 GB total capacity (251 GB free) Symptoms I Am Experiencing: The 2026-06 Security Update (KB5094126) and the June Preview Update (KB5095093) download completely to 100%. During initialization, the engine throws error 0x80074101 and restarts the download pipeline. This creates a heavy background loop that pins the CPU to high utilization, causing noticeable thermal strain. When my AC power charger is connected, the cooling fans run at a very high audible RPM. I also experience temporary screen brightness flaring strictly when the charger is active, likely due to voltage shifts on the shared motherboard power tracks between the integrated AMD graphics and the system RAM channels when the update engine collides with my stop scripts. Other non- quality updates and daily Windows Defender definitions continue to download and install flawlessly when updates are enable. The issue is strictly isolated to this specific update package and sometimes previews. Tried So Far: Over the past few days, I have tried several methods to safely pause or stop this loop to protect my hardware from constant heat stress: Cache Resets: Cleared the contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution multiple times. The loop returns as soon as the folder is regenerated. System Scans: Executed SFC /scannow and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. Both reports show a completely clean component store with no local system file corruption. Service Management: Used temporary command-line scripts to stop 'wuauserv', 'usosvc', and 'bits', and adjusted service recovery actions to prevent them from instantly restarting in the background. These tend to come and go, but most are usually settled at stopped for 2-3 days, and then installation of this lopping security update will force a reattempt on the 2 or 3 day and I have reenter the commands. Built-in Safeguards: Used the "Pause updates for 5 weeks" toggle in Settings just yesterday, where it greyed out for weeks prior, not sure if it will force the reinstall at random again. However, the Windows 11 Home kernel continues to still run background queries every few hours, triggering the hardware strain and it produces loud sounds when charging or resisting disabled setting even if disabling quiets the fan a lot of the time. Cleaned the software distribution folder. Cross-Forum Context & Certificate Discovery: While researching this, I noticed some initial confusion regarding whether the 26200 build numbering indicated an Insider build, but it appears to be a general retail baseline constraint. Some common suggestions include performing a full clean reinstall or a repair upgrade via USB, but I am hesitant due to the risk of overwriting fine-tuned hardware configurations and custom driver properties. Through cross-referencing documentation uploaded by other users facing identical loops on Build 26200, we uncovered a likely root cause. Logs from 'Get-SecureBootUEFI' show that the motherboard's underlying security certificates (Microsoft KEK CA 2011 and Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011) officially expired in late June 2026. Because the current date has passed the certificate validity timeline, the Secure Boot subsystem appears to reject the cryptographic handshake of the June update files, causing the 0x80074101 database error and the subsequent retry loop. As a temporary fix, I am looking into using the official Microsoft WUShowHide diagnostic utility ('wushowhide.diagcab') from my desktop to hide KB5094126 and stabilize my processor and fan noise while waiting for a working patch wrapper that lets me upgrade safely. I would deeply appreciate any verified engineering insight or workarounds the community has found to help me safely bring this system up to date without side effects. Thank you so much for your time!
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (0x9F) on ASUS X870E-E & Ryzen 9 9950X3D
Hello, I am experiencing frequent BSODs with the stop code DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (0x9F). Hardware: ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi • AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D • Windows 11 • Latest AMD chipset drivers installed from the ASUS website • BIOS 2306 (the issue also occurred before updating to this BIOS) Symptoms: • Random BSODs during very light workloads (Outlook, Chrome, PDFCreator). • Today I experienced four BSODs within 20 minutes. • Sometimes the PC can run for about an hour before crashing. • The computer also wakes from sleep by itself every 10 to 15 minutes. Troubleshooting already performed: • BIOS updated. • AMD chipset drivers completely removed and reinstalled. • OCCT CPU and memory stress tests completed without errors. • No WHEA errors reported. • Normal CPU and motherboard temperatures. WinDbg analysis: Bugcheck: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (0x9F) IMAGE_NAME: pci.sys Failure Bucket: 0x9F_3_ACPI_IMAGE_pci.sys Power IRP blocked in ACPI. Device identified: PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_14DB I also found another ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi user reporting the same DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (0x9F). In that case, WinDbg identified Usb4HostRouter.sys instead of pci.sys. Could this indicate an AMD chipset, ACPI, USB4 controller or motherboard PCIe power management issue? I can provide the minidump files, the complete WinDbg analysis and the Windows Event Viewer logs if needed. Thank you.
Excessive DMP Files in System32
I'm not terribly familiar with OS troubleshooting, but in trying to manage storage on my C-drive, I've noticed I have around 43GB of .dmp files in C/Windows/System32 alone. I'm usually under the impression that .dmp are log files more than anything and that I can 'safely' dispose of or move them off of my C-drive, but I'm wary of touching anything in System32 in particular. This machine has never had an issue of crashing, and certainly not as far back as these .dmp go. I also thought that the repository for those would be a different folder or file-name format. Can these be safely deleted/moved to a different volume without impacting my OS? This is on Windows 11 Pro, and the computer is kept up to date. It is my intention to swap out the drive for a larger one in the near future, but it does leave me with some concern as to this problem only growing. Attached is a WinDirStat screengrab for context.
Reinstalling the Microsoft Gaming Overlay
Hi! Some time ago, I uninstalled the Microsoft Gaming Overlay - I think it was the overlay used by the Xbox Game Bar (win+G to bring it up). I am trying to reinstall it, but I can't figure it out. Is there a powershell command I can use to reinstall it? Every time I launch a game, I get the following popup a few times: Any ideas? Thanks!Stock data updates not current
My stock data updates continue to fail with a message saying "Sorry, the service isn't available right now. Try again in a few minutes." I've been trying repeatedly for two days, with no luck. I tried repairing the entire suite of Office 365 apps, no luck. Nothing reported in the usual internet places, nothing on this forum that I can find. Anybody have an insight on this?
Error
Hi! I am writting because i get a new pc with windows 11, and installed a software. When i try to run a sepecific item it says error 91 object varibale not set. The program is to lunch receitps, is the only thing it dont work. I try to acesse to database, but i cant. I installed framework. What can i do to resolve this question? Thanks
