Windows10 Update: kb3093266 - What Does It Do?

Running Win 10 RTM Build 10240, Cumulative update KB3093266 from yesterday was installed. However, it seems like it is causing problems of trying to install Realtek HD Audio drivers as what appears to happen is I can run the setup.exe from 6.0.1.7620 or 6.0.1.7622 pf the Realtek drivers, it will do the uninstall of drivers and then reboot except after rebooting, it does not run the installer like it's supposed to before applying this update. Instead, what appears to happen is Windows install 6.0.1.7571 on it's own so when one runs the setup.exe, it will uninstall 6.0.1.7571 and prompt for reboot except after rebooting, it install's 6.0.1.7571 instead of running the installer.

lopedoggie said:

Many system drivers have been updated with this KB3093266 and the OS version is now 10.0.10240.16515 (Win10 RTM) as opposed to 10.0.10240.16384. For those having problems, just think of all this knowledge you have gained on what does and does not work on your pc.

Have a question, how do you find out what version the OS is exactly?

Anshad Edavana said:

Have you tried updating the driver via "Device Manager" instead of running the setup ?. I mean unpack the driver (use latest version of 7-zip or WinRAR ), open "Device Manager" , right click on "High Definition Audio Device" , choose update driver and point to the unzipped driver folder.

Not yet but I thought doing it with device manager, it will just update the driver without updating the Sound Manager?

What I ended up doing was right click start menu -> Programs and Features, uninstalled Realtek HD Audio and while it prompted to reboot, I said no and ran the setup.exe for the newer version and it installed, then rebooted and all is well.

Joergi said:

There maybe also are tools to show that, but it's in the registry, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion, there the key called "BuildLabEx".

Thanks, I thought there was another way to display it without opening regedit.

Joergi said:

Yes, there maybe is, but I would first have to look up a tool for that. Just looking does not only work without the need to get another tool first, it also will be faster.

I know on my XP machine, it displays the build and version on the desktop with HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\PaintDesktopVersion set to 1. Seems to only show the build # and not the entire string.