KB4487011 Update

What’s New?

Windows 10, version 1703, reached end of service on October 8, 2018. Devices running Windows 10 Home, Pro, Pro for Workstation, and IoT Core editions will no longer receive monthly security and quality updates that contain protection from the latest security threats. To continue receiving security and quality updates, Microsoft recommends updating to the latest version of Windows 10.

IMPORTANT: Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education editions will receive one year of additional servicing at no cost.

Improvements and fixes

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This update includes quality improvements. No new operating system features are being introduced in this update. Key changes include:

• Updates time zone information for Chile.
• Addresses an issue that causes an application to stop responding when two of its threads share the same input queue.
• Addresses an issue with a rooted pointer to an item identifier list (PIDL) in File Explorer.
• Improves performance related to case-insensitive string comparison functions such as _stricmp() in the Universal C runtime.
• Addresses an issue with evaluating the compatibility status of the Windows ecosystem to help ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows.
• Improves the reliability of the UE-VAppmonitor.
• Addresses an issue that causes the clock and the calendar flyout to ignore user settings for Japanese era date and time formats. For more information, see KB4469068.
• Addresses an issue that can overwrite gan-nen support behavior for the Japanese era with a newer update. For more information, see KB4469068.
• Enables the 元年 character for the first year in the Japanese era. For more information, see KB4469068.
• Addresses an issue that fails to display the correct Japanese era name in Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications. For more information, see KB4469068.
• Addresses an issue that fails to recognize the first character of the Japanese era name as an abbreviation and may cause date parsing issues.
• Addresses an issue that may prevent Internet Explorer from loading images that have a backslash (\) in their relative source path.
• Addresses an issue that may cause applications that use a Microsoft Jet database with the Microsoft Access 95 file format to randomly stop working.

If you installed earlier updates, only the new fixes contained in this package will be downloaded and installed on your device.

Windows Update Improvements

Microsoft has released an update directly to the Windows Update client to improve reliability. Any device running Windows 10 configured to receive updates automatically from Windows Update, including Enterprise and Pro editions, will be offered the latest Windows 10 feature update based on device compatibility and Windows Update for Business deferral policy. This doesn’t apply to long-term servicing editions.

Known issues in this update

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Microsoft is not currently aware of any issues with this update.

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