Another month, another emergency update for Windows users. After issuing several out-of-band updates to address update fails in May (1,2), here we are again in June. Only now, “this OOB update downloads and installs automatically,” Microsoft says.
Per Windows Latest which was first to report the initial problem and the response, this follows the June update failing to install on some PCs, primarily those with Easy Anti Cheat gaming software. “As we suspected, something seemed odd with Windows 11 24H2 KB5060842 when Microsoft had paused the rollout briefly.”
That interlude allowed a patch to be applied to the standard update, but this didn’t work. Instead Microsoft withheld the update from affected PCs, which will now receive the emergency update instead. “Windows users likely didn’t experience this issue,” the Windows-maker says, because the standard update was not offered to at-risk PCs.
According to Windows Latest, users had reported that “the update showed up, but kept failing with the message: ‘Some update files are missing or have problems. We’ll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x80073712)’.”
Microsoft then confirmed “compatibility issues” and applied a fix. But when the fix also failed, “Microsoft made the final call to yank the buggy patch (KB5060842) because it wouldn’t install, and replace it with [the new emergency update] KB5063060.”
It’s now clear this “major issue” with June’s Patch Tuesday “causes PCs to reboot unexpectedly when launching games using Easy Anti-Cheat, such as Fortnite.”
The emergency replacement for the Patch Tuesday update includes all cumulative fixes as well as the compatibility workaround. Microsoft says the OOB update “downloads and installs automatically from Windows Update and Microsoft Update on devices with Easy Anti-Cheat installed and on devices that have not installed KB506842 yet.”
