Microsoft's "Horror Patch Day": Some Fixes Won't Land Until October. Cool, Cool.

Remember September's Patch Tuesday, the one Microsoft proudly billed as a record-breaker for closing over 1,000 security holes in one go? Turns out setting records cuts both ways. Several of the bugs that same update introduced are still very much alive and Microsoft's fix for the worst of them isn't scheduled until the next Patch Tuesday, October 13.

The "still broken" list

Top of the pile: USB audio. Since September's update, an unlucky subset of Windows 11 users have been treated to Device Manager's favorite passive-aggressive message, "This device cannot start (Code 10)," along with no sound at all, volume sliders that either don't respond or helpfully freeze themselves at zero, and sound settings that simply decline to open. Devices that do work are apparently fine with basic stereo but fall over the moment you ask them to do anything fancier, like 8-channel or 3D audio. Microsoft's plan: live with it for another three-plus weeks until the October fix ships.

AMD Radeon owners aren't faring much better. Cards including the RX 6600, RX 7700 XT, RX 7800 XT, RX 7900 GRE, RX 7900 XTX, and RX 9070 XT are reportedly seeing driver timeouts, black screens, vanishing displays, and outright crashes — and not just mid-game, either. No fix timeline given for that one.

File Explorer and File History are also still misbehaving for some users post-patch, which is a mildly alarming thing to say about the feature whose entire job is protecting your files.

What Microsoft did manage to fix

To be fair, not everything is still on fire. The emergency update KB5129195 reportedly cleaned up the Remote Desktop Services breakage from September's patch, along with, in a detail almost too on-the-nose to make up, a bug that broke Claude Cowork on Windows 11. Even the AI agents weren't safe from Patch Tuesday. Microsoft Defender issues have also apparently been resolved via a separate Defender update.

The takeaway

Shipping 1,000+ fixes in one update is genuinely impressive. Telling your users to just sit with broken audio and flaky GPU drivers for another month, on the other hand, is the kind of "record" nobody was chasing. If your speakers have gone silent or your Radeon card has started seeing things, you're not losing your mind, you're just waiting on October 13, along with everyone else.