Teri Sheehan
A Microsoft Home windows Replace is wreaking havoc with printers worldwide this week—KB50000802 (for newer Home windows 10 builds; older Home windows 10 and Server builds might have a KB ending in 808 or 822 as an alternative) was supposed to offer updates to safety “when Home windows performs primary operations,” however the replace crashes some print drivers because of overflowing a GDI Object restrict of 10,000.
The bug afflicts a variety of printers and print drivers, as reported by WindowsLatest earlier this week. We are able to affirm having seen the problem on a Home windows 10 2004 PC, which crashes with APC_INDEX_MISMATCH (picture above) after printing to any of a number of fashions of Kyocera printer (some native, some community).
Should you’re with this bug your self, you may get some reduction by uninstalling KB50000802 till Microsoft comes out with a set replace, presumably by April’s Patch Tuesday.
On a Home windows 10 or Home windows Server PC model 2004/20H2, click on Begin –> kind “Management Panel” and hit enter –> go to Applications, then Applications and Options. From there, click on “View put in updates” on the left-hand pane and uninstall Safety Replace for Microsoft Home windows KB50000802).
For Home windows PCs model 1909, the identical repair (and downside) is in KB50000808. Should you’re on model 1809, search for KB50000822. For extra technical element, Dutch tech web site winking.be has a superb overview.
This flaw may additionally have an effect on Home windows 8.1 or Home windows 7 PCs with KBs 848, 853, 841, or 851… however in the event you’re nonetheless on Home windows 8 or Home windows 7 at this level, you have received worse issues than this. Please improve!
