{"id":234330,"date":"2026-03-31T06:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/microsoft-pulls-kb5079391-windows-update-over-install-issues"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:12:04","slug":"microsoft-pulls-kb5079391-windows-update-over-install-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/microsoft-pulls-kb5079391-windows-update-over-install-issues","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft pulls KB5079391 Windows update over install issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-pulls-kb5079391-windows-update-over-install-issues.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has pulled a buggy Windows 11 non-security preview update to investigate a known issue that triggers 0\u00d780073712 errors during installation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/help\/5079391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KB5079391<\/a>, the problematic optional cumulative update, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/microsoft\/windows-11-kb5079391-update-rolls-out-smart-app-control-improvements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">started rolling out<\/a> on Thursday to Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems with 29 changes, including Smart App Control and Display improvements.<\/p>\n<p>This preview update also improved Windows Hello Fingerprint reliability on some devices and Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) stability when running x64 apps on ARM64 devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has pulled a buggy Windows 11 non-security preview update to investigate a known issue that triggers 0\u00d780073712 errors during installation. KB5079391, the problematic optional cumulative update, started rolling out on Thursday to Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems with 29 changes, including Smart App Control and Display improvements. This preview update also improved Windows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}