If your Windows 11 PC has failed a Windows Update session within the final week or so, there could be a really particular cause for it. According to a German tech website, Windows 11 model 24H2 (presently in testing amongst Windows Insiders) has a surprisingly expansive record of apps that may block it from updating. These embody just a few energy consumer favorites, like StartAllBack.

DeskModder.de reports (through machine translation) that Microsoft is together with a database file with the main 24H2 model of Windows 11 that may block the set up if it detects any of 11 very particular purposes on the machine. Notable entries embody standard instruments like EaseUS Disk Copy, consumer interface tweaks like StartAllBack (which PCWorld is particularly fond of), ExplorerPatcher, and Multi-Mon, and even some pretty innocuous utilities like a Realtek USB adapter, AMD’s Radeon GPU driver, or Apple’s iCloud Services.

Some of those entries block all variations of the appliance, like EaseUS, and a few are extraordinarily particular. For instance, Multi-Mon is just blocked should you even have Copilot put in, presumably due to the tweaks the previous makes to the Windows taskbar. Here’s the complete record and particular situations, in line with DeskModder:

• ConisioAdmin.exe (Solidworks PDM)
• EaseUS Disk Copy.exe (EaseUS Disk Copy Application)
• ep_dwm.exe (ExplorerPatcher) Included since 22H2
• iCloudServices.exe (iCloud information shared in Explorer through WhatsApp) Ab 23H2
• RadeonSoftware.exe (AMD GPU perf settings) Ab 23H2
• StartAllBackCfg.exe (StartAllBack) Included since 22H2
• Multi-mon + Copilot (Microsoft)
• MergeSdb (Microsoft)
• Intel IntcOED.sys (Intel)
• Intel IntcAudioBus.sys (Intel) (%WinDirpercentSystem32driversIntcAudioBus.sys)
• Realtek 8192su Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter (Realtek) (%WinDirpercentSystem32driversRTL8192su.sys)

It’s attainable to get at the least a few of these purposes working with the newer model of Windows 11. XDA-Developers has spotted examples of customers uninstalling StartAllBack, updating the working system, then reinstalling this system with a renamed executable file. This isn’t the primary time some UI-heavy apps have caused problems with new Windows updates.

Windows 11 model 24H2 received’t be launched broadly till the latter half of this yr — it’s the large function replace Microsoft has been reliably dropping for just a few years now. But it seems to be like Microsoft is taking the chance to wash home, and block the OS from installing on some out-of-date hardware. So the record of blocked purposes may get shorter as Microsoft removes blocking bugs whereas 24H2 stays in preview — or it’d get longer. Or abruptly embody Baldur’s Gate III for no cause, who is aware of.