By Sergiu Gatlan
Publication Date: 2026-03-30 09:38:00
Microsoft has pulled a buggy Windows 11 non-security preview update to investigate a known issue that triggers 0x80073712 errors during installation.
KB5079391, the problematic optional cumulative update, started rolling out on Thursday to Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 systems with 29 changes, including Smart App Control and Display improvements.
This preview update also improved Windows Hello Fingerprint reliability on some devices and Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) stability when running x64 apps on ARM64 devices.
On affected devices, customers are seeing errors saying that “Some update files are missing or have problems. We’ll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x80073712).”
Microsoft has now stopped the KB5079391 rollout but hasn’t shared a timeline for when a fix will be available. However, this will most likely happen before the next month’s Patch Tuesday cumulative updates are released on April 14 to allow customers to test the new…
