Ramblings of an old Doc
Probably best to defer the update until MS solves the problem
Published on March 10, 2021 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

I receive Ghacks updates routinely. Today I received one which while nothing out of the ordinary for MS, caused me some concern regarding the March 2021 Cumulative Update issued on Patch Tuesday (yesterday).

"The updates patch security issues, all with the second-highest severity rating of important. One of the additional issues that these updates patch is a printing to FILE ports vulnerability. The issue is patched in updates for all versions of Windows, from Windows 7 to Windows 10...According to the reports, updates may cause bluescreens in win32kfull.sys when printing after update installation. Some appear to have mitigated the issue by deinstalling and reinstallation printers on systems, but it does not seem to work for everyone. Others resolved the issue by updating printer drivers." - GHacks

I've delayed my updates for seven days, as MS hasn't even acknowledged the issue yet. I may have to add another seven days to the delay.

You might consider delaying your update, as well.


Comments
on Mar 10, 2021

I'm 7 days as well Sir!  

on Mar 11, 2021

I'll have to see what 0 Patch has done for my 7 ....

on Mar 11, 2021

No issues here with all Windows 10 Pro updates done.

on Mar 16, 2021

Update: MS has created out of band fixes for this blue screen print problem.

You can read about them here:

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/16/out-of-band-update-for-windows-10-fixes-printer-bluescreen-issue/

on Mar 23, 2021

Sometimes you just have to laugh to keep from crying.

"Large fleas have smaller fleas that sit on their backs and bite them, and the smaller fleas have smaller fleas, and so on ad infinitum."

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/21/update-woes-that-never-end-microsoft-halts-patch-of-a-patch-of-a-patch-rollout-to-fix-printing-issues/

on Mar 23, 2021

Fingers crossed.

on Mar 23, 2021

It caused so much problems on my system, I rolled back to Win 10 version 1909 (OS Build 18363.1440) runs sooo much better, and if I loose support for it, I'll just go strictly Mac.    for the time being.

on Mar 23, 2021

Roll back to windows 7....

on Mar 23, 2021


Roll back to windows 7....

Say, not a bad idea Paul!