Windows 11 KB5083769 April 2026 update triggers death loops and BSODs

[Redaktion]

Microsoft's Windows 11 KB5083769 April 2026 update causes critical boot failures, pixelated BSODs, and BitLocker recovery loops on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 PCs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-KB5083769-April-2026-update-triggers-death-loops-and-BSODs.1282151.0.html

[Stuart Hodgkiss]

This update is also causing AutoDESK products (such as AutoCAD) to freeze upon start-up.

AutoDESK advise uninstalling this update via update history, and pausing updates for a week or two, which does fix the issue, but obviously does not allow other updates to load when paused.

[heffeque]

Yeah... It's not nice that M$ doesn't let people choose to pause just a certain update.

Anyway, yet another reason for more people to slowly ditch Windows for Linux.