Security News > 2021 > March > Windows 10 KB5001649 update is rolling out again to fix printing
The printer fixing roller coaster continues as Microsoft is once again rolling out the KB5001649 out-of-band update to users via Windows Update.
After installing the March 2021 Patch Tuesday updates, users began reporting that Windows 10 would crash when printing or print jobs would be missing graphics elements, have blank pages, or other issues.
To resolve these issues, Microsoft released two out-of-band emergency updates for Windows 10 - KB5001567 on March 15th to fix the crashes and KB5001649 on March 18th to fix the printing issues.
Numerous users reported that they could not install the update and were receiving '"We couldn't install this update, but you can try again" errors in Windows Update.
This afternoon, BleepingComputer and Windows Latest confirmed that Microsoft has once again resumed the Windows 10 OOB KB5001649 optional update rollout.
It is unknown what changes, if any, Microsoft made to the update, but tests conducted by BleepingComputer showed that Windows Update installed the update without displaying any 0x80070541 errors.
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