KB5004296 Memory Management BSOD

Question

So, I recently installed the KB5004296 update on my Win10 PC. Thank you MS, it was successful in breaking my PC and now I'm cursing myself for installing it.

After the update, I am being given many gifts, such as 100% disk usage, frequent Memory Management BSODs, and hard disk data corruption. Seems like Windows 10 and the beautiful blue screen are best friends.

Tried disabling SuperFetch, Windows Search and Windows Update. No hope.

This happened to me before as well, I guess KB5004237. After the update, my user profile was broken and I had no other option else to reinstall Windows. Resetting didn't even help!

If this continues, I'm going back to Win7. I now completely agree with the thousands of complaints against Win10. I was with Win7 for 10 years, I NEVER got a BSOD. It's true that it did give me 100% disk usage issue, but that was easily fixable.

Edit/Update: Sorry having to write like this, but I was very upset at that time. I thought my HDD was corrupted (it was fixed by chkdsk /f /r). I just bought this new one I guess, a month ago. Well it seems that my AV is the main culprit. BUT IT ONLY INCREASED WHEN I APPLIED THE KB5004296 UPDATE. I trusted Kaspersky a lot. In fact, when I Win7, I never ran into such serious issues. Just when I exited it today, the disk usage was back to 0%. Pardon me for my offensive post.

Answer 1

To monitor the computer please use the reliability monitor:

https://www.howtogeek.com/166911/reliability-monitor-is-the-best-windows-troubleshooting-tool-you-arent-using/

In case there are any future or recurrent problems please run the V2 log collector > post a share link into this thread using one drive, drop box, or google drive

https://www.windowsq.com/resources/v2-log-collector.8/
https://www.tenforums.com/bsod-crashes-debugging/2198-bsod-posting-instructions.html

.
.
.
.
Please remember to vote and to mark the replies as answers if they help.

On the bottom of each post there is:

Propose as answer = answered the question

On the left side of each post: Vote = a helpful post
.
.
.
.

Answer 2

Hello,

Thank you for coming back to the comunity with your findings. It is actually tranquilizing to hear that it was not directly a corruption from the update.

I believe you are not the only one that once a KB or Cummulative update rewrites many system files and have the bad luck of some defect on the hardware at the same. As an old time user like you (took me ages from XP to w7, and then to Windows 10 after long released...) I can share what it was a novelty compared to my troublshooting approach:

In Windows 10, you have the DISM tool for system repair (both from online or offline source), so after passing our beloved CHKDSK and SFC, you can run DSIM command lines to repair the system image installed. Detailed info in:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/repair-a-windows-image

Hope you find it useful!
Luis P

Answer 3

So I took my PC to a service center with the last hope of getting it fixed before a clean install. Guess what? They said IT WASN'T MY AV, IT WASN'T THE UPDATE,

IT WAS A THING CALLED MICROSOFT COMPATIBILITY TELEMETRY.

They added, "Your HDD maybe slowed down permanently. I don't think a clean install would help. Try defragmenting your drive and see if it helps."
Thank you MS, and when this HDD fails, I'll buy a new SSD with Linux running on it.

We can't afford multiple disks for 'backup'. It feels as if I'm running a alpha or beta version of something. I do have my important docs saved to Google Drive. Although my PC doesn't have very important things saved in it, problems in a week or two aren't acceptable from a paid OS.
All my drivers are up to date, and also the BIOS.

Answer 4

Once you clean install Windows 10 make free backup images.

For any problems the image can be restored typically in < 1 hour and often < 30 minutes.

If you have significant free drive space:

One image can be made immediately after the clean install.

The next image can be made after installing drivers.

Then install applications.

For any change in boot or performance the application can be uninstalled or the image restored.

If there are boot or performance problems immediately after a clean install then the drive can be tested.
If there are recurrent BSOD other hardware can be tested.

Make sure the BIOS is up to date.

.
.
.
.
Please remember to vote and to mark the replies as answers if they help.

On the bottom of each post there is:

Propose as answer = answered the question

On the left side of each post: Vote = a helpful post
.
.
.
.

Answer 5

Consider reinstalling Windows again as a clean install > don't install drivers or applications

Make sure that no third party software is installed (antivirus, firewall, drive encryption)

Check the boot times and performance with multiple reboots.

Update Windows.

Check the boot times and performance with multiple reboots.

If there are no problems then install drivers from the computer or motherboard manufacturer website.

Check the boot times and performance with multiple reboots.

Update Windows.

Check the boot times and performance with multiple reboots.

If there are any problems then report the findings into this thread.

Whenever possible post images with share links.

If there are no problems with boot or performance then install browsers and only absolutely needed third party software.

Again check boot times and performance with multiple reboots.

.
.
.
.
Please remember to vote and to mark the replies as answers if they help.

On the bottom of each post there is:

Propose as answer = answered the question

On the left side of each post: Vote = a helpful post
.
.
.
.