This week we reported about the Patch Tuesday for November, and the many fixes that it brought. But, as it’s almost always the case, it did manage to product some botched update, as well. This time, it seems that update file KB 3097877 is causing the most of the issues. According to multiple reports, quite a dozen of them, I might say, MS15-115 KB 3097877 is causing various problems, such as Outlook crashes, network sign-in black screens, disappearance of Windows 7 sidebar and gadgets, Asus Audio Center issues and more. As we speak, Microsoft hasn’t acknowledged any problems in KB 3097877, and it seem that the single solutions to fix them consist in uninstalling the patches or rolling back to an earlier system restore point.

Outlook problems caused by KB 3097877

It seems that Outlook was the most affected product of them all. Here are just a couple of annoying problems reported by Window users: Many say that Outlook won’t even start after the 11/11/2015 security updates. But what seems to be the biggest problem are the crashes: SPONSORED

Windows 7 problems caused by KB 3097877

Windows 7 users are also apparently affected by KB 3097877, and various problems have been reported. Here’s what we have been able to found from the support forums: I recently was affected by the problem with Windows Update KB3097877 crashing my Outlook. Before I discovered that uninstalling that update would solve my problem I went through many of Microsoft’s fix options, including Online repair (which looked like at least a partial reinstall) Others have been reporting that they can not log into Windows 7 after the November 2015 updates. A couple of other users report issues with the screen flicker, as well, allegedly caused by a Wacom driver:

Other issues

Other Windows 7 users report that Internet Explorer crashes when you try to download pictures in an email. There even are problems reported with Excel, as well: Thus, long story short, there are many, many issued caused by this specific update, so please use the comments section to let us know how have you been affected.

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