tl;dr — This appears to have popped-up in the latest builds of Windows 11. The account picture still sets, but it won’t be visible until signing-out or rebooting.
Windows 11 Account Picture Error
Category: Windows Updates
Cannot Print to Printer Shares on Windows 10
Recently, we had a store report they could no longer print to a tag printer, that was shared and physically plugged-in to another computer. That other computer was running Windows 10 and it started Tuesday/Wednesday — i.e. Windows Updates. tl;dr – Remove KB5005565 from the Windows 10 machine.
Yet Another Windows 10 Option to Configure
As part of Peeps’ Configuration Protocol (our treatment/setup of a Windows machine), we tweak, prune, and better-secure the Windows environment to make it both cleaner, as well as safer for our customers. With Windows 10, the amount of work involved increased exponentially vs. Windows 7. There are so many places Microsoft has added potentially annoying or confusing things.
And as of the latest round of Windows Updates, we’re now seeing the weather appear in the Taskbar:
Windows 10 Update Annoyances
Windows 10 Updates Are A Pain!
Where Windows Updates for Windows 7 Professional systems we manage, have been a predictable and reliable weekly event, Windows 10 Updates really are tedious to say the least.
ConsignPro Crash When Printing Receipts
This week, I’ve had a number of stores encounter an issue where ConsignPro would crash when they were ringing-up a sale.
How To Fix Windows Networking Issues After Windows Updates KB4480960 & KB4480970
TL;DR: Head to Control Panel > Windows Updates, click View Update History, click Installed Updates, uninstall KB4480960 (reboot) then uninstall KB4480970 (reboot).
