KB 5006050 Has hung on my computers

Greg · Sep 2, 2021

Hi Wondering if anyone out there can help.

I have 2 HP laptops both a few years old but running well. One is an i5 the other an i7. This morning whilst installing KB5006050 both hung and on reboot completed the upgrade. Now I have no bottom menu bar on both computers and a spinning blue circle on the bottom menu bar. Frustrating because I cant access a range of programs to work out what has gone wrong.

wpcoe · Sep 2, 2021

I've been running Win11 in a VMWare VM on a Surface Pro 6. Checked for System Updates today and I didn't write down the KB number, but I think it's the one in the OP, and I've got similar symptoms:

- no Task Bar
- Windows key does not pop-up the Start menu
- Win+R doesn't bring up the Run dialog box
- <right-click> on desktop cannot open Display Properties*
- only way to shut down is via Task Manager > File > Run new task > shutdown.exe /s /f /t 00

* at first I thought maybe the screen resolution got changed and the Task Bar was off-screen but I since think that's not the case since the other oddities were revealed.

Even if a new release fixes this, how would I access/download it? No response to Windows key to do a Search, no access to Edge or other browser...

BunnyJ · Sep 2, 2021

wpcoe · Sep 2, 2021

BunnyJ said:
View attachment 7000

Thanks. I just saw that tweet on the thread about the new Dev Channel release.

ruhgster · Sep 2, 2021

I've seen reports on reddit, and it worked for me, to open control panel from task manager, shut off internet time sync and adjust your date forward by a day.

wpcoe · Sep 2, 2021

ruhgster said:
I've seen reports on reddit, and it worked for me, to open control panel from task manager, shut off internet time sync and adjust your date forward by a day.

HOLY SH*T CAKES, that worked!!!

Observer11 · Sep 2, 2021

I have 3 computers that behave the same way Greg has reported in 1st quote, no bottom menu bar, spinning blue circle, no settings, OS not fully loaded
Samsung notebook, Alienware gaming laptop ans AMD tower

wpcoe · Sep 2, 2021

Observer11 said:
I have 3 computers that behave the same way Greg has reported in 1st quote, no bottom menu bar, spinning blue circle, no settings, OS not fully loaded
Samsung notebook, Alienware gaming laptop ans AMD tower

Try ruhgster's suggestion. It worked for me:

ruhgster said:
I've seen reports on reddit, and it worked for me, to open control panel from task manager, shut off internet time sync and adjust your date forward by a day.

Greg · Sep 3, 2021

wpcoe said:
I've been running Win11 in a VMWare VM on a Surface Pro 6. Checked for System Updates today and I didn't write down the KB number, but I think it's the one in the OP, and I've got similar symptoms:

- no Task Bar
- Windows key does not pop-up the Start menu
- Win+R doesn't bring up the Run dialog box
- <right-click> on desktop cannot open Display Properties*
- only way to shut down is via Task Manager > File > Run new task > shutdown.exe /s /f /t 00

* at first I thought maybe the screen resolution got changed and the Task Bar was off-screen but I since think that's not the case since the other oddities were revealed.

Even if a new release fixes this, how would I access/download it? No response to Windows key to do a Search, no access to Edge or other browser...

Hi WpCoe I have resolved by downloading an ISO version from Microsoft and then reinstalling All of my files and settings were retained. That may have been a blunt force fix but it resolved it on both computers.

clam1952 · Sep 3, 2021

On Beta but it never affected me here, I updated pretty much as soon as it appeared, something appears to have gone wrong at some time later.

Observer11 · Sep 3, 2021

Thank you wpcoe for reply, was not able to find the time service you mentioned, my Windows is in French

But this procedure worked on 3 pc's

Microsoft releases fix for issue that breaks Taskbar in the latest Windows 11 builds

Microsoft has released an official workaround for the problem in the latest Windows 11 insider builds 22449 and 22000.176, where the Taskbar, among others, would be unresponsive or totally empty.

www.neowin.net

johnlgalt · Sep 3, 2021

Observer11 said:
Thank you wpcoe for reply, was not able to find the time service you mentioned, my Windows is in French

But this procedure worked on 3 pc's

Microsoft releases fix for issue that breaks Taskbar in the latest Windows 11 builds

Microsoft has released an official workaround for the problem in the latest Windows 11 insider builds 22449 and 22000.176, where the Taskbar, among others, would be unresponsive or totally empty.

www.neowin.net

I did this on my desktop and it worked perfectly well also.

wpcoe · Sep 3, 2021

Now for the pièce de résistance: Those Windows 11 Instabilities Were Cause by a Microsoft Ad

johnlgalt · Sep 3, 2021

Yeah, saw the same info at another blog.

And they want to release in 32 days?

GFLWT.

BunnyJ · Sep 3, 2021

wpcoe said:
Now for the pièce de résistance: Those Windows 11 Instabilities Were Cause by a Microsoft Ad

If that were the case why didn't I have an issue?

johnlgalt · Sep 4, 2021

You got lucky.

Every single article mentions that numerous users / lots of users / the problem is widespread.

None of them say every single user of the Dev and Beta builds was affected.

KB 5006050 Has hung on my computers

New member

My Computer

Well-known member

My Computers

Python Programmer

My Computer

Well-known member

My Computers

Well-known member

My Computer

Well-known member

My Computers

New member

My Computer

Well-known member

My Computers

New member

My Computer

Well-known member

My Computers

New member

My Computer

Antidisestablishmentarianist

My Computers

Well-known member

My Computers

Antidisestablishmentarianist

My Computers

Python Programmer

My Computer

Antidisestablishmentarianist

My Computers

Similar threads