Home windows 11’s emergency replace fixes damaged Microsoft app logins
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In abstract:
- PCWorld stories Microsoft launched emergency replace KB5085516 to repair important Home windows 11 app login points affecting Groups, OneDrive, and Xbox purposes.
- The issue stemmed from replace KB5079473, inflicting error 0x800704cf and stopping sign-ins regardless of energetic web connections.
- Customers can resolve the difficulty by restarting their PC whereas related to the web or putting in the emergency patch.
Replace on March 23, 2026: Over the weekend, Microsoft launched an emergency replace that addresses app login points in Home windows 11. The replace (KB5085516) is now obtainable for Home windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 and is designed to make sure that the presence of an web connection is appropriately detected in the course of the login course of. You may set up it through Home windows Replace, the place will probably be listed as an non-obligatory replace.
Unique story from March twentieth: Ever since Home windows 11’s large March replace, customers have reported login points with sure apps. On the very least, apps that require a Microsoft account are affected, together with Groups, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Xbox app, and the Microsoft Retailer.
Microsoft confirms that that is an precise drawback in its checklist of identified points, saying that these login errors are because of replace KB5079473 for Home windows 11 24H2 and 25H2. Generally, the error message “You’ll want the Web for this. It doesn’t seem like you’re related to the Web” seems, though affected customers are on-line. In some instances, error code 0x800704cf might also seem.
Regardless, a scarcity of web connection doesn’t look like the basis drawback. Microsoft is at present investigating precisely why logins are failing and plans to launch a patch within the coming days.
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Till Microsoft repairs the difficulty, customers should depend on user-provided non permanent options which have already helped just a few. You may attempt restarting your Home windows PC whereas related to the web. Expectantly, the sign-in will work once more afterwards.
Microsoft additionally states that restarting with out an energetic web connection might inadvertently reset your PC to the state during which the error happens. You must subsequently not try and restart your web connection whereas doing so, even when it appears an apparent factor to do.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
