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Windows 10 crashing when you try to print? There's now an official fix | PC Gamer - gridercanuttle

Windows 10 blinking when you try to print? There's now an official fix

A generic blue screen of death in windows 10 os
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Recently an issue occurred that caused "certain printers victimization some apps" to crash Windows completely when impression. After the rollout of a modern Windows Patchday update happening March 9th: KB5000802, users began reporting the error for which, until now, the only workaround had been to revert Windows to a previous state.

Affecting "a subset of Type 3 printer drivers" including those that some Kyocera, Ricoh, and Dymo printers run connected, the error had been throwing up a blue screen of destruction with mistake "APC_INDEX_MISMATCH for win32kfull.sys" every bit users attempted to print. And subsequently pausing the updates distribution, the company then successful it addressable again, solely for the issues to continue.

Now, thankfully, there are fixes easy to the public that don't require regressive back to past update versions. The solution comes in the form of optional updates, so you will have to install them manually.

To do this, go to > Settings > Update and Security > Windows Update > Check for updates and download the "optional quality updates" it gives you. Or you can use the following links, depending on what version of Windows you currently have.

To check over your version of Windows, just hop over to > Settings > System > Nearly and scroll down to Windowsspecifications.

Windows specifications version

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Microsoft explains the new update "Addresses an issue that mightiness cause a blue screen when attempting to print to certain printers using some apps and mightiness return the error, APC_INDEX_MISMATCH" (via BleepingComputer).

This is good news program for anyone WHO'd been experiencing the issue, and hopefully the BSoD issues have innocent up now. Still, it just go to show how unchaste it is for something simple like this to be missed during development, flatbottomed for Microsoft.

Katie Wickens

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Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-patch-printer-blue-screen-error-fix/

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