In a world of monstrous Windows 10 cumulative updates and their
attendant problems, Microsoft has released a couple of simple, one-off, little patches. They're a breath of fresh air.
So far this year, we've had a mess of cumulative updates, a handful of dynamic updates ("used by Windows 10 to obtain critical driver, component, and setup improvements during the initial setup"), a bunch of servicing stack updates (to fix the Win10 fixer-upper), even an occasional housekeeping patch like
KB 3125217.
I've seen singing bears and uppity orangs that wanna be like you too. But I haven't seen a single-purpose Win10 patch in many months. Here are the two Microsoft recently released:
KB 3147062 -- "Signing verification failure breaks audio functionality in Windows 10 Version 1511" -- fixes a problem with the Conexant Audio Processing Object, which fails a signing verification. Since the driver doesn't appear as signed, Conexant audio goes down the tubes.
KB 3152599 -- "Preinstalled system applications and Start menu may not work when you upgrade to Windows 10 Version 1511" -- tackles "a race condition that causes certain registry keys to become inaccessible to logged-in users. Therefore, the preinstalled system applications that have to touch those registry keys can't be installed during the appx deployment phase." The patch says it only applies to machines upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10 version 1511, but I'm not sure I believe that literally. (Win 8.1? Win7?)
