More improvements aimed at Fall Creators Update systems

May 22, 2018 05:02 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has just released a cumulative update for Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709), bumping the OS version number to 16299.461.

The KB4103714 changelog is huge and it contains plenty of fixes, including for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge browsers (the latter is the new default in Windows 10).

For example, Microsoft says it has fixed a bug causing Edge or other apps using its engine to stop responding when users create a new audio endpoint while audio is starting. Furthermore, Internet Explorer is getting fixes for dual-monitor configurations.

There are several other refinements for Windows 10 features. Bluetooth connectivity should now work just as expected after a restart, as devices previously failed to receive data, and the Windows Authentication Manager is supposed to no longer experience sporadic authentication issues.

No known issues

More importantly for home users is that Microsoft addressed a bug causing high CPU usage in some conditions. The company explains:

“Addresses an issue that occurs when multiple processes are limited by rate, using job objects. This can cause various symptoms including, but not limited to, system-process CPU spikes, interrupt-time CPU spikes, high privileged time on some CPUs, and increased system or processor queue lengths.”

As said, the changelog includes many other improvements, and you can check it out in full in the box at the end of the article.

There are no known issues in Windows 10 cumulative update KB4103714, though as we learned the hard way, it remains to be seen if performance is indeed flawless or not. Cumulative updates have previously caused quite a lot of struggles on Windows 10 devices, and we shall see if this is the case with KB4103714 or not.

The update is available via Windows Update on systems running Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, or it can be downloaded from Microsoft’s Update Catalog using this link. The next round of cumulative updates for Windows 10 is due to land on June 12 when the company begins the Patch Tuesday rollout.

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