"2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" in 64-bit W10 Pro.

Yeah I'm glad its not just me. Trying to get a bunch of laptops slated for checkout at work fully updated and ready but this is hindering me quite a bit.

Ugh. 2 Windows 10 Pro systems fully patched other than this. Neither can run 11 or they would be. Both use Bitlocker in password mode.

The Haswell system installed it fine apparently. The ~2 year newer Skylake system fails.

I tried DISM and SFC before searching and finding this, and they found no problems.

It sounds like at least this bug affects my PCs' security if it's physically compromised, but not my online security?

If I'm understanding that right, I can at least keep using my PC, but it still needs to get fixed.

What's bad is I'm aware of no way to report this.

Oh, the skylake PC does have a TPM, but I'm not using it for bitlocker, if that matters.

Windows Update KB5034441 is a security update to the WinRe environment, but people are running into problems trying to get it downloaded and installed. KB5028997 tells how to resize your recovery partition so that this update can be installed, but it applies only to Windows 11 computers. I am in the same boat as John Dow 987654 and ULtraGreG. I need a workaround that applies to Windows 10 computers, if there is one.

I have Windows 10 which I understand is supported thru 2024. Like the others, I need a simple (NOVICE) solution to this problem update (KB5034441).

Please advise for those of us that are not "Tekies", and don't have administrator's access! Looking forward to Microsoft assistance with this security problem caused by the original Microsoft security designers who created this risk in the first place by ignoring the possibility of the risk this update is attempting to mitigate.

Win10 is suppose to be supported until October 2025 but with the way MS is putting out updates like this I would not care if they stopped sooner. Personally I am getting tired of chasing rabbits down holes every patch Tuesday and I do not call that support. I would not hold my breath waiting for MS to do anything about this anytime soon. Maybe we will get a fix next patch Tuesday. Good luck.

Thanks for the post. I did something similar - shrinking the main partition by 250MB with the Windows built Disk Management app then following instructions on this page

https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf

After retrying the update once or twice and then rebooting once or twice (it gets confusing after a while) Windows 10 shows that the update installed and all is up to date.