Optionally available Home windows 11 replace fixes USB printers spitting out nonsense

On Tuesday, Microsoft launched the KB5053657 replace for Home windows 11 that fixes the bizarre error the place sure USB printers related to a Home windows 11 laptop had been printing out random textual content. This patch is just for Home windows 11 23H2 and 22H2. No equal replace is presently out there for Home windows 11 24H2 customers.

That is an non-obligatory preview replace, which Microsoft intends to roll out to all Home windows 11 customers as a part of Patch Tuesday in April. Nevertheless, if you wish to set up it now, you are able to do so manually by means of Home windows Replace or by downloading the replace through Microsoft’s Replace Catalog.

The USB printer drawback was first brought on by an replace from January 2025. You’ll be able to learn the main points in our protection of printers spitting out nonsense after a borked Home windows replace. The issue particularly affected these working methods with the next patches:

• Home windows 11 24H2: KB5050009, KB5050094, KB5051987, KB5052093, KB5053598.
• Home windows 11 23H2: KB5050092, KB5051989, KB5052094, KB5053602.

Within the replace notes, Microsoft writes: “Mounted: USB related dual-mode printers that assist each US Print [sic] and IPP Over USB protocols, would possibly unexpectedly output incorrect or undesirable textual content.”

RDP points reverted in Home windows 11 24H2

Individually, Microsoft has additionally acknowledged that Home windows 11 24H2’s January replace brought on a corruption in Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections. Microsoft describes the issue as follows:

“After putting in the January 2025 Home windows preview replace (KB5050094) and later updates, customers would possibly expertise sudden disconnections with Distant Desktop Protocol (RDP) classes, together with Distant Desktop Providers (RDS). We’ve noticed a big enhance in reviews of this situation following the discharge of the March 2025 Home windows safety replace (KB5053598).

Customers would possibly discover their RDP classes unexpectedly disconnecting after 65 seconds when establishing UDP-based connections from Home windows 11, model 24H2 gadgets to RDS deployments operating variations Home windows Server 2016 or earlier. Ensuing from this situation, customers would possibly expertise frequent disconnections from their Distant Desktop and RDS classes.”

Whereas Microsoft’s preliminary repair try failed, they’ve now supplied a decision within the type of a Identified Challenge Rollback. This implies affected gadgets will mechanically obtain a rollback replace that reverts the difficulty. You’ll must restart your PC to use the rollback if you get it.

Microsoft is engaged on a everlasting repair, which shall be launched as a part of a future Home windows 11 24H2 replace.