Cumulative Update KB4345421 Windows 10 v1803 Build 17134.167 - July 16

yountmg · 17 Jul 2018

I am just guessing and speculating, but I think I was under attack by a Windows 10 Anti-Piracy feature.

My theory is that ...

Windows 10 does not work after major updates because the Windows 10 Anti-Piracy Data Base gets completely reset.

Windows 10 requires an active internet connection to correctly validate your software applications, especially older legacy third party applications.

If you do not have an active network connection, your applications will just mysteriously crash or disappear.
Microsoft must really hate pirates with a passion to punish legitimate users also.

You apparently have to manually restart each and every effected application once (while connected to the internet), they will then crash or disappear, restart automatically and come back up working perfectly (If your not a pirate I guess)?

I was totally shocked by this weirdness. Two weeks wasted by a hidden anti-piracy feature.

If you are offline, which I am most of the time, you only get the crash and vanish behavior.

I erroneously assumed I had something wrong with my system and/or the software was now incompatible.

Windows 10 now appears to be working (online and offline), except for a major glitch associated with custom high contrast themes?

bobad · 17 Jul 2018

Past few days, my machine has been running EXE's very, very, excruciatingly slowly. Takes up to 20 seconds for a simple program to launch. Running this update for 30 minutes, and so far, all EXE's are starting normally... very quickly. Fingers crossed!

WarningU2 · 17 Jul 2018

I had BSOD that has been previously reported with a minidump created this morning. Message on PC said it needed to restart but had not. I had to force with a power down. Thankfully it booted back up. phew

Looking back through event log it appears to have crashed during a windows update. Checking windows update this fix was pending. I restarted the update. It reinitialized and installed successfully after reboot.

Hopefully issue resolved. I ran winDbg and have included the text output. Doesn’t mean a lot to me honestly but have attached the file in case it might mean something to others and help them. To answer questions on what system I have ... I've also included the system information output.

Until this issue I have had a rock solid system since running Windows 10 1803 however last week my PC became unbootable. It appeared the SSD drive had failed but the tech that I took my system to, said that a windows system file was corrupted and there were registry errors. She recovered the system and told me the SSD drive was healthy. I later found an issue with PerfectDisk Pro 14 throwing a bunch of errors so their support provided a utility to clean the system and reinstall, which I did. I wondered if this caused the boot disk issue.

And now this error with the application of this windows update. Coincidence or unrelated ... unknown.

Don't expect any answers to this post ... just sharing my experience.

Edit ... I found some wer dumps at the time of the error at 4:46 am this morning and following the reboot this morning. Odd also that reviewing the section of my system info windows error reporting there are errors with time stamps at 12:57 PM today which has not occurred yet ...

2018-07-17 12:57 PM Windows Error Reporting Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: BlueScreen
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: ef
P2: ffffa58f6b272080
P3: 0
P4: 0
P5: 0
P6: 10_0_17134
P7: 0_0
P8: 768_1
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\071718-4421-01.dmp
\\?\C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\WER-6046-0.sysdata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D2A.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D3B.tmp.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D3A.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D4A.tmp.txt

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Kernel_ef_de91c7f66bb3148d3cbcda11f19a72a4b319956 b_00000000_cab_1cac32f6

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 7400f1c7-c1ff-46c4-b4e3-82c64a115108
Report Status: 2049
Hashed bucket:
Cab Guid: 0
2018-07-17 12:57 PM Windows Error Reporting Fault bucket 2014910846497146006, type 5
Event Name: CriticalProcessFault2
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: svchost.exe_RpcSs
P2: 10.0.17134.1
P3: a38b9ab2
P4: rpcss.dll
P5: 10.0.17134.112
P6: 9a7d3a16
P7: c0000005
P8: 0000000000029091
P9: 00000000
P10: 0x00000000

Attached files:
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D49.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\AppCrash_svchost.exe_RpcS_92ea3416d3fbe86c4ac17b4 8355836110656be_5a007bd5_1cac322b

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: e5b06682-6491-4719-969b-2f809bc2e1fb
Report Status: 268435456
Hashed bucket: 9c10e77e1d5b4e9ffbf666bd4b8b4496
Cab Guid: 0
2018-07-17 12:57 PM Windows Error Reporting Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: BlueScreen
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: ef
P2: ffffa58f6b272080
P3: 0
P4: 0
P5: 0
P6: 10_0_17134
P7: 0_0
P8: 768_1
P9:
P10:

Attached files:
\\?\C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\071718-4421-01.dmp
\\?\C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\WER-6046-0.sysdata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D2A.tmp.WERInternalMetadata.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D3B.tmp.xml
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D3A.tmp.csv
\\?\C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\Temp\WER2D4A.tmp.txt

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportQueue\Kernel_ef_de91c7f66bb3148d3cbcda11f19a72a4b319956b_ 00000000_03242d49

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 7400f1c7-c1ff-46c4-b4e3-82c64a115108
Report Status: 4
Hashed bucket:
Cab Guid: 0

jamis · 17 Jul 2018

Interesting, WU in Settings shows no updates as of 9:50PM EST last night. The task scheduled WU ran at 7:48AM this morning with no update. Maybe later today, this week, this month?

tomseys · 17 Jul 2018

Updated, took 5 minutes, no probs.

bobad · 17 Jul 2018

jamis said:

Interesting, WU in Settings shows no updates as of 9:50PM EST last night. The task scheduled WU ran at 7:48AM this morning with no update. Maybe later today, this week, this month?

Same here. Did a manual update check and it found it, installed it very quickly.

molivos · 17 Jul 2018

fast update ...no probs.

WEKJR · 17 Jul 2018

One system was updated yesterday and 2 office systems were updated this morning with no discernable problems. All seemed to go well.

WEK

magilla · 17 Jul 2018

Update without problems, and fast, too.

reddice · 17 Jul 2018

I later found an issue with PerfectDisk Pro 14 throwing a bunch of errors so their support provided a utility to clean the system and reinstall, which I did. I wondered if this caused the boot disk issue.

PerfectDisk corrupted your SSD. I dropped that dumb program years ago when it ruined a spinning HD. Thrashing the drives to defrag which speeds up nothing.

Cumulative Update KB4345421 Windows 10 v1803 Build 17134.167 - July 16

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