Some 11 . window users recently encountered an error with the preview update accordingly The ultimate task manager can be displayed in different colorscould make it unreadable – but the good news is that Microsoft’s most recent patch fixed the problem.
This issue appears in an optional update (preview, meaning it’s still in beta) for Windows 11 released in late November (KB5020044).
It causes Task Manager – a panel showing your running processes and a bunch of other details like resource usage (CPUmemory, GPU, etc) – becomes “unwanted color” in some parts of the interface, which may mean that the information in it cannot be generated.
It’s certainly one of the weirder Windows bugs that have popped up in recent times, and while it’s not a display stop, it’s certainly annoying if it obscures what you really want. to watch. According to Microsoft, it affects people who have selected a custom mode under Personalization > Colors in Settings.
Like Computer is sleeping (opens in a new tab) Report, the good news is that with the latest Windows 11 cumulative update, KB5021255, which was released earlier this week, the issue has been resolved.
Windows 11 users should have been offered KB5021255 to download at this point, but if not, just go to Windows Update and check for new updates and it should be there now.
Analysis: The dangers of optional updates
It’s not surprising to see a bug pop up in the preview update. These updates are optional precisely because they are in beta and you should only install an update on your primary PC when it fixes the problem that is really causing you grief. Because these updates can fix something with one hand and damage something with the other, that’s exactly what happened here (Gameplay bug fixedthen the Task Manager which is, well, not broken but definitely doesn’t work well in some cases).
Of course, it’s not just preview updates that can accidentally screw up bits of Windows. As we’ve seen in the past, even released updates can have alarmingly critical bugs (that’s certainly the case with Windows 10, though we haven’t seen anything yet). as bad as this bug). file deletion error with Windows 11).
At least in the case of this gremlin task manager the bug won’t affect a lot of people, since that’s a fair number of users who installed the preview update and who had to change the settings the aforementioned (and even then, it doesn’t affect everyone). Moreover, the remedy came quickly, in fact only a few weeks after the error was discovered.
Anyone running the test software – even a Windows Insider with a preview version of Windows 11 installedor those using release versions of Windows 11 using optional updates – must be prepared to face additional levels of error beyond normal.
