Home windows 11’s newest optionally available replace – which is a preview of Second 3 (KB5026446) – is inflicting hassle for some customers, coming with some bugs, and worse nonetheless, in some reported circumstances the improve is putting in itself robotically.

Home windows Newest stories that it skilled the set up of KB5026446 going forward robotically when updates have been checked for on the PC. Notice that as an optionally available replace, one that may include gremlins within the works (which it apparently does), the consumer ought to must manually set off the replace.

In different phrases, it’s best to have to decide on to put in this preview replace, it shouldn’t be putting in robotically.

Home windows Newest observes that it has acquired stories from readers that this sudden set up of KB5026446 has occurred, and certainly, elsewhere on-line we’ve seen different stories of this taking place (even, in some circumstances, if folks hadn’t checked for updates).

As for the issues the Second Three preview replace is inflicting, there are numerous stories of various points, as you may anticipate with a patch nonetheless in testing. A kind of is that it breaks the Microsoft Retailer, or messes with the Recreation Go on PC (making video games unplayable, we’re informed).

There are different stories of worrying system freezes, some apps failing to open, and the keyboards and mice of some customers failing to work post-update.

There have been set up failures too, with the same old meaningless error messages (strings of hexadecimal), however that’s just about par for the course today it appears with Home windows 11.

Evaluation: The clue is within the identify – ‘optionally available’

The excellent news, properly, resembling it’s, is that in all these circumstances, merely uninstalling the replace (by way of Home windows Replace, below Replace Historical past) cured the PCs of the varied illnesses talked about. The galling bit right here is for the oldsters who didn’t wish to set up the optionally available replace within the first place, after all.

How widespread is that this concern with the KB5026446 preview replace putting in itself? It’s troublesome to say, however it’s actually taking place for a variety of of us. Home windows Newest does observe that should you do verify for updates, and spot it putting in, should you hit ‘Pause Updates’ that’ll cancel the set up. In order that’s value allowing for.

One principle is that this sneaky set up could also be tied in to those that have chosen the brand new choice in Home windows 11 to ‘Get the newest updates as quickly as they’re out there’ (and utilizing that’s essential to allow Second 3’s new options in KB5026446, as Bleeping Laptop beforehand made clear).

Nevertheless, even if in case you have chosen this alternative, you shouldn’t be getting an optionally available replace piped by way of with no warning in any respect (particularly while you haven’t even checked for updates, as appears to be taking place in some circumstances). Non-compulsory updates ought to all the time be precisely that – an choice, not an computerized set up (and positively not one occuring stealthily behind the scenes, because it have been).

Hopefully we’ll hear from Microsoft quickly sufficient to make clear what’s occurring right here.