More trouble caused by this month's updates

May 15, 2015 06:52 GMT  ·  By

Patch Tuesday is slowly becoming a nightmare for Windows users, given the number of botched updates that land on their computers, and now we're hearing that one of the fixes rolled out this month is causing SFC not to work properly and fix corrupted files.

Once again, Windows 7 appears to be the only affected Windows version, and posts on Microsoft's Community forums confirm that, after installing this month's updates, repairing corrupted files no longer seems to work properly.

It appears that the source of the problem is KB3022345, an update that Microsoft shipped this month to enable the Diagnostics Tracking Service in Windows.

“This update enables the Diagnostics Tracking Service in Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This tracking service collects data about functional issues in Windows,” Microsoft explains.

Up until now, Microsoft hasn't said anything about any potential issues that might be experienced by users who install KB3022345, and its official page has no known issues section for the time being. What's more, the update is still available via Windows Update for those who are now checking for new fixes, so it might not be a widespread issue for the time being.

How to fix SFC issues

If you're one of the many users who are having a hard time running SFC because of this month's Patch Tuesday cycle, there's a very easy way to fix it.

All you need to do is go over to Control Panel, open Windows Update, click on “View installed updates” and look for KB3022345. Remove the update from your computer, reboot it, and SFC should be working fine.

There's one big problem, however. Doing this basically leaves you without the fix that Microsoft developed for your version of Windows, so you must turn to this workaround only temporarily, until an official fix is provided.

Thank you, Anon, for the tip!